Paul Bubny is managing editor of Real Estate Forum and GlobeSt.com. He has been reporting on business since 1988 and on commercial real estate since 2007. He is based at ALM Real Estate Media Group's offices in New York City.
An MIT Center for Real Estate report commissioned by Capital One identifies trends that “defy conventional wisdom” along with “evolving market conditions that were hiding in plain sight,” says Rick Lyon, the bank's head of commercial real estate.
Hired as head of Newmark Knight Frank's valuation & advisory data center solutions group, Miles Loo Jr. anticipated the coming impact of what's now known as the Internet of Things.
“Ours is a story of career bankers and career distribution people that have come together to build a real estate capital markets advisory shop,” says Lotus Capital founder Faisal Ashraf.
However, about 60% of institutional investors globally are under-invested in real estate relative to their target allocations, says Hodes Weill & Associates.
The joint venture with J.P. Morgan Asset Management will “further enhance our capacity by making us even more nimble and effective in the pursuit of new development opportunities,” says L&L Holding CEO David Levinson.
“Being there and soaking in all that information is key to our members,” says Julie Kang, Manhattan chapter president of the Asian Real Estate Association of America.