Stuart Watson

The need for affordable accommodation is acute, and an increasing volume of private capital is available to the sector, but making development projects ‘pencil’ remains challenging.

Rising competition is making it more difficult for US debt fund managers to deploy capital.

Participants in PERE’s roundtable say a combination of public investment and regulatory reform could help to revive Germany’s stalled economy and real estate market. But they also fear a fragile recovery could be derailed by global events.

With structural trends driving tourism volumes, Southern European hotel and resort assets are increasingly in demand. In this podcast, Arrow Global’s John Calvao scrutinizes the opportunities available to investors.

Real estate managers accept that NOI growth is critical to investment performance, and now innovators in the sector are capturing a greater share of the operational upside.

In this episode of The PERE Podcast, LaSalle’s Isabelle Brennan and Nuveen Real Estate’s Christian Janssen pinpoint opportunities in the market as it enters a new cycle.

To grasp opportunities in a reset European lending market, lenders need to look beyond their traditional roles, argue Deutsche Pfandbriefbank’s Duncan Pearson and Charles Balch in this episode of The PERE Podcast.

In this episode of The PERE Podcast, Knight Frank’s Jess Qureshi and Reed Smith’s Josh Hughes look at the rise of the financing structure once widely regarded as too risky, and the nuts and bolts of its use by alternative lenders.

The region’s relative stability in an era of turmoil could draw in capital as the property market recovers. Participants in PERE’s Europe roundtable consider whether it can seize the moment.

In this podcast, AllianceBernstein’s Clark Coffee says valuing assets is becoming more challenging, making it more important for equity investors to pick the winners. But credit lenders just need to avoid the losers.