The AFIRE Podcast

(Featuring Anthony Cazazian, Managing Director, Head of US Residential Real Estate, Man Global Private Markets) The demographic transition from baby boomers to millennials spells increased demand for single-family rentals in the coming decades. According to Man GPM, supply needs to keep up. https://www.afire.org/podcast/newgenerationsfr/ “OK, boomer.” The somewhat condescending term applied by Mil...

(Featuring P. Allen Smith, landscape designer, conservationist, author, and television host) Landscape designer, conservationist, author, and television host P. Allen Smith discusses the shift towards walkability, density, and community accelerated by the COVID-19 crisis. https://www.afire.org/podcast/lookingforcommunity/ With more drastic climate change effects on the near horizon, and COVID-19 s...

(Featuring Melinda McLaughlin, Vice President of Research for Prologis) COVID-19 and logistics: What have we learned so far, and what will be the lasting impact on the sector as it faces a new stay-at-home economy? https://www.afire.org/podcast/prologissupplydemand COVID-19 has put an end to the lengthy global economic expansion. Estimates of the magnitude and duration of the negative impact of th...

(Featuring Martha Peyton, PhD, CRE, Managing Director of Real Assets Applied Research, Aegon Asset Management Real Assets) Understanding new changes in tenant demand, economics, and public health will be critical to the future of commercial real estate investing. https://www.afire.org/podcast/rightsizingcre/ All real estate investors are focused on the potential paths for the global economy and co...

(Featuring John Kennedy, Managing Director and Head of Real Estate Asset Management – US, Barings Real Estate, and Rob Little, Head of Real Estate Debt Underwriting and Servicing, Barings Real Estate) The asset management function is always integral to long-term value creation in real estate, but the COVID-19 crisis has served as a fresh reminder of just how crucial this role is for navigating cha...

(Featuring Jayanth Ganesan, Real Estate Research Analyst, Nuveen) The economic impact of COVID-19 will not be felt equally across the US. Which metros are well-positioned for life after coronavirus (and why)? https://www.afire.org/podcast/resilientcities/ With social and leisure events canceled, many stores and offices closed, and malls and airports well below capacity, the coronavirus pandemic ma...

(Featuring Gunnar Branson, CEO, AFIRE) Around the world, 2020 has been rife with public health anxieties, civil unrest, and economic uncertainty—nothing new for real estate, but what does it mean for the future? https://www.afire.org/podcast/realestatereckoning/ Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, systemic inequity and injustice are now in high relief and can no longer be ignored or put aside, especially...

(Featuring Maggie Coleman, Senior Managing Director, Co-Head of International Capitol, JLL) In this unpredictable environment of the COVID-19 pandemic, halfway through 2020, how should global investors treat the US property market right now? https://www.afire.org/podcast/maggiecolemanjll/ Half a year into the COVID-19 crisis, some US cities are still dealing with severe spikes of the disease, whil...

(Featuring Nicholas Garattini, Head of Investor Relations and Business Development, Generali Real Estate) Typically, institutional investment is attracted to sure and stable assets—so what should institutional investors do during a time of economic and social change? https://www.afire.org/podcast/afirepodcast08/ Nicholas Garattini, head of investor relations and business development at Generali Re...

(Featuring Peter Grey-Wolf, Vice President, Wealthcap) The office isn’t dead, but after COVID-19, it’s going to be forever changed. Peter Grey-Wolf, Vice President for WealthCap, has some ideas for where the office is going next. https://www.afire.org/podcast/afirepodcast07/ As some people in some cities begin to return to their offices after months of stay-at-home orders around the world, investo...

(Featuring Joshua Benaim, Principal, Co-Founder, Aria Development Group) Joshua Benaim talks about the surprising things we can learn from the arts to create better multifamily portfolios. https://www.afire.org/podcast/afirepodcast06/ Joshua Benaim is Principal and Co-Founder of Aria Development Group, a multifamily investor, developer, and manager in New York City that has a portfolio in multiple...

(Featuring Byron Carlock, US Real Estate Practice Leader, PwC) A conversation with Byron Carlock, US Real Estate Practice Leader, PwC, on the future of the built environment. https://www.afire.org/podcast/afirepodcast02/ In the early months of COVID-19, life dramatically changed for everyone—but in this next phase of this crisis, as people start to go back to work and school, how should real estat...

(Featuring Jeff Adler, Vice President, Yardi Matrix) Political risk in the US is usually seen mostly through a national lens, but what can we learn by understanding risk at the city level? https://www.afire.org/podcast/afirepodcast05/ By building a mechanism to quantify and understanding political risk at the metro-level across the US, unexpected insights and comparisons for real estate investors...

(Featuring Gunnar Branson, CEO, AFIRE, Lexie Miller, COO, AFIRE, Benjamin Van Loon, Communications Director, AFIRE, and Asmait Tewelde, Meeting Director, AFIRE) What is AFIRE doing to help members stay connected during COVID-19? https://www.afire.org/podcast/afirepodcast00/(opens in a new tab) Association meetings are impossible at a time of COVID-19, so how can members stay connected?  In this in...

(Featuring Jane Page, CEO, Lionstone Investments, and Bryan Sanchez, CIO, Lionstone Investments) A conversation with Jane Page and Bryan Sanchez of Lionstone Investments on what crises teach about leadership. https://www.afire.org/podcast/afirepodcast01/ As COVID-19 alters so much in our lives, the stress and uncertainty challenges leaders to understand better how to manage the very human needs an...

(Featuring Christoph Donner, CEO, Allianz Real Estate of America) The world of real estate and portfolio strategy will change after COVID-19, but in what ways? Beyond the immediate disruption and crisis of COVID-19, how will real estate and real estate portfolios change over the long-term? Allianz Real Estate of America CEO Christoph Donner talks about the long-term trends he’s watching now that w...

(Featuring John D’Angelo, Managing Director, Deloitte Consulting) A conversation with John D’Angelo, Managing Director at Deloitte Consulting, on using data to gain clarity and build transparency during critical times. https://www.afire.org/podcast/afirepodcast03/ Especially in uncertain times, the need for clarity, accuracy, and transparency to the many assets in real estate portfolios only incre...