IPE Real Assets Opinion
IPE Real Assets' columnists and guest writers provide thoughtful commentary and reaction to the hot topics for the industry
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Opinion PiecesGuest view: Is 2024 the year when carbon commitments impact leasing decisions at scale?
Occupiers will need to move quickly to snap up the limited low-carbon stock available
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Opinion PiecesHow should UK real estate managers choose between a RIF and REIT?
Melville Rodrigues considers the important choice facing UK fund managers
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Opinion PiecesGuest view: It’s time for innovation in real estate investment
Real estate fund management needs to move with the times, write Andrew Baum and Valentina Shegoyan
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Opinion PiecesGuest view: UK fund managers – seize the RIF opportunity
Melville Rodrigues welcomes the Spring Budget announcement on the reserved investor fund
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Opinion PiecesGuest view: The economics of our electrical grid
Within the electrical grid, supply and demand must seamlessly coordinate
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Opinion PiecesGuest view: Prime Central London CRE investment opportunities
Opportunity to buy and retrofit underperforming properties in London has become more prevalent
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Opinion PiecesGuest view: Europe’s retail renaissance
Retail sector had to adapt amid a confluence of technological, environmental and societal secular shifts
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Opinion PiecesGRESB: Why the E should not be separated from ESG
Despite some recent claims, sustainability does not start or end with GHG emissions, writes Chris Pyke
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Opinion PiecesIPE Real Assets March/April 2024: University of life (sciences)
Student housing and life sciences are separate real estate sectors but they form part of the same ecosystem of innovation
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Opinion PiecesGuest view: How new UK policy could turn offices into thousands of new homes
Planning reform takes time and it is rarely popular to local ‘not in my back yard’ residents that are affected
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Opinion PiecesGuest view: Redefining residential investment – a data-driven future
Traditional metrics are reaching their limits in the face of the ever-evolving market
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Opinion PiecesGuest view: What do biodiversity rules mean for the real assets community?
Smaller firms may not have had the resources to prepare England’s new Biodiversity Net Gain law
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Opinion PiecesGuest view: Avoiding the allocation trap of rigid investment categories
Eduardo Monteiro, partner and co-CIO of Victory Hill Capital Partners
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Opinion PiecesGuest view: Navigating tectonic shifts in the EMEA market
Despite drawing substantial investments in real assets, managers face ever-shifting landscape, demanding adept navigation
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Opinion PiecesGuest view: Three headwinds for US commercial real estate in 2024
Sector still faces three undeniable challenges
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Opinion PiecesGuest view: Infrastructure asset class takes on central role in energy transition
Infrastructure investors are ready to turbocharge the energy transition, writes François Bergère
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Opinion PiecesGuest view: Solving real estate’s fund valuer problem
AIFMD regulations have created a liability problem for valuers, with repercussions for investors, writes Melville Rodrigues
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Opinion PiecesGuest view: Demographic disparities as real estate’s next major trend
The diversity of generations in the workforce is reshaping real estate development, writes Dean Hodcroft
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Opinion PiecesGuest view: Time to buy European listed real estate?
Discount to NAV of larger European listed real estate companies has expanded to over 40%
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Opinion PiecesGuest view: The future of AI in real estate
Partnership between AI and humans, mirroring the necessary balance of diligence and speed in transactions, is essential
