Real Estate

Private investors, including HNW investors and family offices, accounted for the largest transaction volume in U.S. student housing from 2010 to 2016.

As the asset management industry innovates and introduces more products to meet client demand, high-quality real estate investment options should only grow.

Given the current cap rate environment, clients are more inquisitive about how a fund manager assesses the value-add proposition of an asset along with its potential for greater NOI.

REITs are on track this year to raise most equity since 2013.

Poorly designed policies and procedures resulted in thousands of dollars' worth of non-traded REITs being sold to unwitting clients.

Vanguard wants to add speciality REITs and real estate and management and development firms to VNQ.

A compelling case is made for investing in secondary and suburban markets, which remain below peak valuation and present protection against a possible market correction.

Advisors are expected to anticipate these changes and forecast the future.