The AFIRE Podcast

(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?

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Half a year into the COVID-19 crisis, some US cities are still dealing with severe spikes of the disease, while other regions have the pandemic under relative control. How should investors act today, and in the future, as markets emerge from the damaging effects of the pandemic?

Maggie Coleman, Senior Managing Director and Co-Head of International Capital for JLL, offers a macro- and micro-view of the global investment outlook through the rest of 2020. While widespread and pronounced disruption of COVID-19 has weighed on transaction volume and other Q2 declines, Coleman emphasizes the bright spots on the global investment horizon, and possible paths forward for institutional investors.

(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?

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Nicholas Garattini, head of investor relations and business development at Generali Real Estate in Italy discusses the role of institutional real estate investors to support positive social change as they put the savings of regular people to work.

(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.

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As some people in some cities begin to return to their offices after months of stay-at-home orders around the world, investors are thinking through the potential long-term impacts for office.

Peter Grey-Wolf, who runs real estate investing in North America for WealthCap, joins AFIRE for our latest podcast to talk through a few of the short-term and long-term possibilities for the sector—especially for cross-border investors.

(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.

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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 cities on the east coast of the US.

In the latest AFIRE Podcast, Benaim shares insight about apartments both during and after the COVID-19 crisis, and what we can learn about the sector from history, experience, and opera.

(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.

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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 estate change?

PwC’s US Real Estate Practice Leader Byron Carlock, Jr talks about how real estate will transform in the months to come and the forces driving that change.

(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?

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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 can emerge.

In this episode, Jeff Adler, Vice President of Yardi Matrix, talks about mapping political risk in the US.

(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?

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Association meetings are impossible at a time of COVID-19, so how can members stay connected? 

In this inaugural AFIRE Podcast, the AFIRE Staff describes some of the ways they are working to support connection in a virtual environment and explains some of the programming available to everyone.

(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.

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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 and capabilities of everyone. At the same time, the lessons we are learning right now, will make us all better leaders in the future.

Jane Page and Bryan Sanchez of Lionstone Investments have fascinating and eye-opening insights on how to learn and thrive today.

(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 will shape our post-COVID world.

(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.

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Especially in uncertain times, the need for clarity, accuracy, and transparency to the many assets in real estate portfolios only increases.

How should one approach that now in a time of crisis? Deloitte Consulting Managing Director John D’Angelo talks about how real estate’s approach to data can be transformed as we move through COVID-19.