The AFIRE Podcast

(Featuring Nan Whaley, Mayor, Dayton, Ohio) The discussion on recovery as COVID begins to decline often focuses on larger US cities. So what’s next for the mid-sized markets, and could Dayton, Ohio have some answers? https://www.afire.org/podcast/developingdaytoncast/ How have mid-size cities with less density responded to the pandemic? Are there advantages or disadvantages to living in smaller ur...

(Featuring Melinda McLaughlin, Senior Vice President of Research, Prologis) Urbanization, digitalization, and demographics are the key trends to watch for understanding the future of logistics real estate. https://www.afire.org/podcast/supplychangecast/ The global pandemic has forever altered the logistics real estate landscape. Supply chain decisions have become more holistic, more data-driven, a...

After the postponement of the landmark international trade fair Expo Real in 2020, AFIRE was pleased to return to Munich, Germany last month for Expo Real 2021. Running from October 11 to 13 and held at the Messe München exhibition center, this year’s Expo Real had a diminished attendance compared to previous years—due largely to still-active travel restrictions inhibiting frictionless internation...

After the postponement of the landmark international trade fair Expo Real in 2020, AFIRE was pleased to return to Munich, Germany last month for Expo Real 2021. Running from October 11 to 13 and held at the Messe München exhibition center, this year’s Expo Real had a diminished attendance compared to previous years—due largely to still-active travel restrictions inhibiting frictionless internation...

After the postponement of the landmark international trade fair Expo Real in 2020, AFIRE was pleased to return to Munich, Germany last month for Expo Real 2021. Running from October 11 to 13 and held at the Messe München exhibition center, this year’s Expo Real had a diminished attendance compared to previous years—due largely to still-active travel restrictions inhibiting frictionless internation...

After the postponement of the landmark international trade fair Expo Real in 2020, AFIRE was pleased to return to Munich, Germany last month for Expo Real 2021. Running from October 11 to 13 and held at the Messe München exhibition center, this year’s Expo Real had a diminished attendance compared to previous years—due largely to still-active travel restrictions inhibiting frictionless internation...

(Featuring Secretary Rodney E. Slater, Partner, Squire Patton Boggs; Congressman Bill Shuster, Senior Policy Advisor, Squire Patton Boggs; Caren Street, Principal, Squire Patton Boggs) https://www.afire.org/podcast/restructuringinfracast02/ Much of the way a city works depends on where you are, and ultimately, where you want to go. And this place—where you want to go—is the source of critical ques...

(Featuring Secretary Rodney E. Slater, Partner, Squire Patton Boggs; Congressman Bill Shuster, Senior Policy Advisor, Squire Patton Boggs; Caren Street, Principal, Squire Patton Boggs) https://www.afire.org/podcast/restructuringinfracast01/ Much of the way a city works depends on where you are, and ultimately, where you want to go. And this place—where you want to go—is the source of critical ques...

(Featuring Matt Slepin, Founder, Terra Search Partners) The job market is changing. From worker shortages to an ever younger work force, hiring processes are being forced to evolve. The real estate industry is no exception. https://www.afire.org/podcast/impactcast/ While many recruiters are experiencing a busier job market than ever, retirement is on the horizon for much of the current work force,...

(Featuring Michael Bull, CCIM, President, Bull Realty) When casual conversations have become scarce and the world has gone online, how do we keep conversations going? https://www.afire.org/podcast/conversationcast During the last year and a half, the COVID-19 pandemic, emerging markets, and rapid changes in technology have converged to turn networking on its head. In this brave new world, investor...

(Featuring Max Shepherd, Director of Global Real Assets, Sheffield Haworth, London, and Jannah Babasa, Senior Associate, Global Real Assets, Sheffield Haworth, New York) As the global life sciences sector continues to grow in real estate, highly specialized skills and experience will be the keys to success. https://www.afire.org/podcast/lifesciencescast/ In a year of poor performance in some comme...

(Featuring Stacy Krumin, Partner, Real Estate Practice & Global Board Member, Squire Patton Boggs, and John Thomas, Partner, Real Estate Practice Leader, Squire Patton Boggs) The future is bright for build-to-rent housing, and institutional investors are increasingly looking at investing in the sector. https://www.afire.org/podcast/buildtorentcast/ Build-to-rent is hot. Demographics; economic chan...

(Featuring Dave Bragg, Co-Head, Strategic Research, Green Street) Uncertainty surrounding remote work and politics suggest a wide range of potential outcomes for big cities, which may upend the long-running megatrend toward urbanization. https://www.afire.org/podcast/herdcommunitycast/ The rise or fall of a city is tough to foresee and impossible to forecast with precision, but history suggests th...

(Featuring Jonathan Ellenzweig, Chief Investment Officer, Tricon Residential) Over the past two decades, the single-family rental industry has evolved into an institutional-caliber asset class—so where is the sector going next? https://www.afire.org/podcast/institutionalizingsfrcast/ Over the past decade, the US single-family rental (“SFR”) industry has matured from a largely mom-and-pop cottage b...

(Featuring Ernest Lee, Managing Director, Americas, citizenM Hotels) As we come out of the pandemic to a new economy, it seems likely that the creator economy will continue to grow. This will have a major impact on the multifamily sector. https://www.afire.org/podcast/multifamilycast/ The current way most technology platforms monetize is based on attention at scale. More eyeballs and clicks result...

(Featuring Lauren Krause, Director of Environment, Social, and Governance, Grosvenor Americas and Brian Biggs, CFA, Research Director, Grosvenor Americas) Though “impact investing” is no longer totally distinct from investing in general, investors still have a lot of work to do to fulfill the social and governance aspects of ESG expectations. https://www.afire.org/podcast/peoplefirstcast/ Gone are...

(Featuring Paula Campbell Roberts, Managing Director, Global Macro, Balance Sheet and Risk and Real Estate Americas, KKR) During times of constant change—especially over the past several months—many of us are having our core ideas or investment theses constantly challenged or contradicted, partly because we're working with limited information. What's the data we should track to understand what hap...

https://www.afire.org/podcast/londoncallingcast/ With Brexit and pandemic resolutions coming into focus, pricing disparities could dissipate based on improved cross-border liquidity and cap rate compression in the London office market. Because the global real estate industry is so interconnected, what happens in one part of the world affects what happens everywhere. The UK’s 2016 vote to leave the...

https://www.afire.org/podcast/risingpressurecast/ The increasing burden of state and local taxes required to face the mounting level of unfunded pension liabilities and other committed liabilities could drive widening differentials in local business and living costs, alter regional growth patterns and thereby affect CRE demand. The COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on the economy and local tax coll...

(Featuring Martha Peyton, Managing Director, Head of Global Applied Research, Aegon Asset Management) For commercial real estate investors, inflation fears are real—but are they rational? https://www.afire.org/podcast/revisitinginflationcast/ Investors cite inflation hedging power as one of the primary attractions of property investments. This characteristic has been of limited use in recent years...

https://www.afire.org/podcast/michaelbirkincast/ After everything we have been through over the past eighteen months, the way we communicate with clients, investors, tenants, and friends has undergone dramatic change—with new expectations already hard-wired into our social interactions. So what do these changes mean for the future of marketing, relationship development, and community interaction i...

(Featuring Michael Birkin, CEO, kyu) After everything we have been through over the past eighteen months, the way we communicate with clients, investors, tenants, and friends has undergone dramatic change—with new expectations already hard-wired into our social interactions. https://www.afire.org/podcast/michaelbirkincast/ So what do these changes mean for the future of marketing, relationship dev...

(Featuring William J. Ferguson, Chairman, CEO, Ferguson Partners) Facing fiscal challenges, social unrest, geopolitical conflict, climate change, supply chain disruption, and the ongoing COVID crisis, what should tomorrow’s real estate leaders do today to prepare for the future ahead? https://www.afire.org/podcast/testuponuscast/ If ever there is a time when steady leadership is required in real e...

(Featuring Frances Mennone, Advisor, Consultant Cross Street Partners, and Bruce Katz, Co-Founder, The New Localism) When the pandemic first spread across the globe in early 2020, real estate and urban experts collectively began to ask: What will this crisis mean for cities? https://www.afire.org/podcast/mennonekatzcast/ And now, as the world now deals with the latter stages of the pandemic, with...

(Featuring Dongsoo Kim, Director of the Sustainability Management Center, Korea Productivity Center) Because the standards and expectations are different country-by-country, reaching sustainability goals is a complex challenge for global investors. https://www.afire.org/podcast/sustainingfuturecast/ But with the real estate industry finally learning how to integrate technology, leaders in the spac...