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Owners and managers must focus on sustainability, operational excellence and finding new solutions to keep pace with changing market dynamics, says Schroders' Sophie van Oosterom

With the right value-add partner, investors can take advantage of emerging real estate opportunities, says Mahdi Mokrane, Patrizia’s head of global investment strategy, research and investment solutions.

Early adopters of carbon neutrality will be rewarded with financial outperformance at the property level, says Steve O’Connell, chief executive of Grosvenor – Property Americas.

Institutional investors in real estate are showing an increased interest in debt funds, writes Lazard's James Jacobs.

Measuring emissions of properties needs to be a holistic exercise, encompassing both operational and embedded carbon, says Omar Fjer, managing director in Ardian’s Real Estate team. He says his firm has devised a calculation methodology which does just that.

A global panel of logistics real estate managers give their views on the market’s past, present and future.

The industrial asset class has felt the full force of volatility over the past year, but it is not doom and gloom for investors, says Jim Martell.

The US light industrial property niche offers robust income and an inflation hedge at a challenging moment for the national economy, say BKM Capital Partners’ Brian Malliet and Harry Hedison.

Logistics and cold chain transformation, coupled with launch of C-REITs, are creating more exciting opportunities to be discovered, say DNE’s Sun Dongping and Keaton Yu.

Logistics provides an opportunity that may have been overlooked, says Fidelity International’s senior real estate analyst.