What are some of the pitfalls and concerns with regard to bidding on properties in a volatile market?Winner’s curse dialogue:...

Robby Roberts. rroberts@communitydevelopment.com Yes, it does. The data indicate that underfunded public pension funds compared with...

Deon Diogenes. jdiogenes@partnersproperty.com The private equity, hedge funds, and real estate are alternative assets and are more...

Neu Olden SOlden@bigcompany.com The usual asset categories—office, warehouse, apartment, industrial, hotel—are blunt instruments. Some...

Bob Drake. bdrake@uscommunities.com Liquidity, as measured by the rate of turnover of the property market, is not a function of MSA size....

Susan Smyth. Ssmith@cityscapeproperties.com Simplification can be a help but excessive simplification—crude reductionism—can mask...

Francois Rabelais. jrabelais@rabelaispartners.com One of many reasons that tenanted property is a bad inflation hedge is that...

Moss Moskowitz. Hmoskowitz@innerpropertymanagement.com Be careful when you think about risk. One of the achievements of the Capital...

Billy Bogart. bbogart@buildingownersofnyc.com Both have limitations, but the IRR, which is the most widely used measure, is the worse. ...