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Todd Soloway, the chair of law firm Pryor Cashman’s hotel and hospitality group, considers what should be on the minds of private equity real estate investors

A real estate asset you need to re-lease every day sounds too risky for many institutional investors – but they are beginning to check in. By Mark Cooper

End-of-life restructurings and stapled secondaries are proliferating in the private real estate market, according to Samantha Lake Coghlan, partner at law firm Goodwin.

The emergence of new logistics corridors within Europe and initiatives to improve connectivity between Europe and Asia are opening up new territory for investors, writes Irfan Younus, head of research for Europe at Savills Investment Management

Competition for space, a focus on speed and the reduction in operating costs will lead logistics occupiers to start thinking about the last hour rather than the last miles, argues Simon Wallace, head of alternatives re-search for Europe at Deutsche Asset Management.

Sanjay Dutt, chief executive officer for India operations at Ascendas-Singbridge, says the country’s fast-evolving regulatory regime will drive investors toward greater engagement with its real estate industry

2017 was a banner year for Indian real estate, with some marquee global institutional investors committing equity across office, logistics and retail sectors. Suresh Castellino, executive national director at Colliers International, and Rahul Rai, head of real estate at ICICI Prudential Asset Management, discuss what’s currently working in India’s favor

Autonomous trucking could be as little as five years away and when it comes the value impact for logistics property will be pro-found, writes Nathan Kane, director of re-search at Washington DC-based Realterm

As e-commerce enhances demand for logistics real estate, GLP is changing its approach to technology, leasing and more to keep growth firmly on the agenda, says chief investment officer Alan Yang