The Weekly Take from CBRE

  Student housing has become a darling of the multifamily asset class. Real estate investor Brian Dinerstein and CBRE’s Jaclyn Fitts explain how the sector has bounced back from pandemic-era challenges and offers enticing opportunities for investors. Insights to Share:   Student housing has been better insulated against rising interest rates than conventional multifamily housing. Large p...

Growth strategist Rebecca Homkes delivers insights and ideas for companies navigating a challenging economic landscape. With wit and real-world examples, she challenges leaders to think of uncertainty as a neutral and temporary state – and where that line of thinking can lead. Insights to Share:   ·       Survive, Reset, Thrive  is a playbook for fortifying...

What’s the best way to prepare for a thriving commercial real estate career today and in the future? Leaders of real estate programs at the University of North Carolina, Ohio State and Clemson enlighten us. Key Takeaways : • Learn to be resilient and flexible. • Interdisciplinary approaches provide a broad real estate education. • There is a history of collaboration between higher education system...

Deepki CEO Vincent Bryant and CBRE’s Emma Buckland share insights on how data analytics helps property owners attract tenants, meet sustainability goals and enhance asset values. Insights to Share:   Property management data has become much more standardized and transparent in the last ten years. CBRE’s strategic partnership with Deepki helps property management teams support investors’ susta...

Despite widespread adoption elsewhere in the world, modular construction has been slow to take hold in the U.S. Assembly OSM CEO Andrew Staniforth makes a compelling case for the construction technique’s affordability, sustainability and speed—as well as reasons why the practice is still in its infancy domestically. Insights to Share:   Modular construction is an option that provides a compel...

One’s an office occupier—Orrick’s Laura Saklad—and the other’s an office investor—CBRE Investment Management’s Julie Ingersoll. From opposite sides of the table, they discuss how property investors and occupiers can work together to facilitate return-to-office strategies and make the workplace a magnet for talent attraction and retention. Insights to Share: ·      Suc...

What commercial real estate stories will make headlines this year? Diana Olick knows. The CNBC reporter talks interest rates, work from the office, the future of cities, climate strategies and more. Insights from CNBC’s Diana Olick:   One solution to the housing affordability crisis is the addition of supply at scale. Trends in climate and real estate are interwoven. For many people, renting...

What will the future office look like? Ask an interior designer. ThinkLab’s Amanda Schneider offers insights on how organizations can use design to support everything from hybrid work strategies to employee health and safety and from sustainability to portfolio optimization. Insights to Share:   Hybrid work has brought interior design innovation to the forefront of conversations around produc...

CEOs of The Office Group and Industrious discuss the flex space office market in the wake of WeWork’s high-profile bankruptcy. Insights to Share:   Despite recent headlines, the future of flex office is bright. Flex office space within the building stack can enhance asset value. Collaboration spaces and individual private spaces, like pods or booths, have gained favor among flex-office occupi...

U.S. Air Force veteran and consultant DeDe Halfhill discusses effective leadership qualities, debunks management myths and shares tactics for team-building and improving productivity. Insights to Share from DeDe Halfhill:   ·      Creating a culture of open feedback is incredibly important for those in leaderships roles but often hard to achieve given the power d...

With many commercial real estate investors in a wait-and-see mode, Rob Finlay, author and founder of Thirty Capital, expounds on opportunities to create value using data analytics to optimize property performance. Insights to Share from Rob Finlay:   1. Waiting for rates to drop is not a good strategy for real estate investors. Instead, they should focus on managing their assets and debt effe...

In a bonus episode from our 2024 Outlook, Chief Economists Jim Costello (MSCI Real Assets) and Richard Barkham (CBRE) respond to live audience questions about the 2024 commercial real estate outlook.

Our annual must-listen episode. Chief Economists Jim Costello (MSCI Real Assets) and Richard Barkham (CBRE) share their predictions for the global economy, interest rates, capital markets and investment opportunities across commercial real estate sectors. THIS WEEK'S GUESTS Richard Barkham Global Chief Economist, Head of Global Research & Head of Americas Research, CBRE Richard Barkham leads a...

As you make big plans for 2024, here's one of our most popular episodes from the past year featuring author and professor Bent Flyvbjerg talking about how he and his team studied more than 16,000 projects—from skyscrapers to Oscar-winning films—to learn the secrets of their success, and the common thread in their failures. THIS EPISODE'S GUEST: Bent Flyvbjerg Professor, Oxford University and...

2023 was a challenging year for commercial real estate, driven by sharply rising interest rates, economic uncertainty and continued slow progress on return-to-office plans. Join us as we look back at everything from market conditions to labor issues to office amenities to emerging technologies and more. Insights to Share:   ·     The commercial real estate market in 2...

Mixed-use real estate can be thought of as several discrete projects—executed in parallel—within a block-by-block area, to create a whole that’s greater than the sum of its parts. Three seasoned CRE professionals, Katie Grissom of Nuveen, Sondra Wenger of CBRE Investment Management and Colin Yasukochi of CBRE, discuss the metrics that matter most when measuring synergies across residential, retail...

Kimco Realty’s (NYSE: KIM) President and Chief Investment Officer Ross Cooper says that retail and mixed-use property owners and tenants have become partners. In a wide ranging discussion he talks about the challenges facing real estate investors today, the evolution of the shopping experience and the possibilities for mixed-use properties. SOME KEY INSIGHTS: 1. Taking on equity partners through j...

Marc Lore helped to revolutionize how consumers purchase goods—everything from diapers to office supplies. Now he wants to revolutionize the restaurant and food delivery business with his newest venture, a company called Wonder. Lore discusses his vision for Wonder, which combines ecommerce with traditional restaurant and real estate strategies. 1. The food delivery market has boomed to about $100...

Rob Lilwall was a high school teacher who, in need of a new direction, decided to walk across Siberia. This was the start of an avocation that he parlayed into a profession. Rob’s story is about conquering fears, overcoming setbacks, building inner resilience and reaching for higher goals, whether it’s climbing mountain or closing real estate deals. “One of the great things about an expeditio...

One’s an office occupier—Orrick’s Laura Saklad—and the other’s an office investor—CBRE Investment Management’s Julie Ingersoll. From opposite sides of the table, they discuss how property investors and occupiers can work together to facilitate return-to-office strategies and make the workplace a magnet for talent attraction and retention. Insights to Share: ·      Suc...

The rapid growth of digital infrastructure like AI, edge computing, virtual reality and private clouds is making data centers—once an underappareciated niche—into an increasingly important commercial real estate sector. DigitalBridge CEO Marc Ganzi and CBRE’s Pat Lynch share insights on this burgeoning market. ABOUT THIS WEEK'S GUESTS: Marc Ganzi CEO DigitalBridge Marc C. Ganzi is the Chief E...

The leaders of two of America’s key seaports—Gene Seroka of the Port of Los Angeles and Barbara Melvin of South Carolina Ports—discuss lessons learned from the pandemic and what resurgent trade activity augurs for supply chains and industrial & logistics real estate investors and occupiers. ABOUT THIS WEEK'S GUESTS GENE SEROKA is the Executive Director of the Port of Los Angeles, the busiest c...

Oscar Munoz, former CEO of United Airlines, and Sol Trujillo, Chairman of Trujillo Group Investments, share their unique experiences on business transformation, honing leadership styles and climbing the corporate ladder while embracing their Hispanic heritage.

Blackstone's Chief Technology Officer, John Stecher and CBRE's Chief Data & Technology Officer, Sandeep Davé join The Weekly Take to explore the extraordinary power and promise of technology—from AI to PropTech and more—on commercial real estate.

Futurist Jacob Morgan returns to discuss how leading teams with vulnerability can increase productivity, build relationships and achieve organizational transformation. Morgan’s new book, Leading with Vulnerability —filled with lessons drawn from interviews with more than 100 CEOs—explains the difference between being weak, being vulnerable and leading with vulnerability.