Institutional Real Estate, Inc. Podcast

Hines, one of the nation’s major development companies, recently published its Global Living Reimagined report, which discusses the housing shortage and affordability crisis in the United States and around the world. To learn more about the report’s findings we are joined by Alfonso Munk, co-head of investment management at Hines. (04/2025)

Joanna Frank, founding president and CEO of Fitwel, an organization focused on integrating health and wellness into the built environment, is our guest. Fitwel and its certification system was created by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention and the U.S. General Services Administration. The CDC remains the research and evaluation partner for Fitwel. Frank explains why student housing is setting a tone that her organization expects will spread to other property types. (10/2024)

Joanna Frank, founding president and CEO of Fitwel, an organization focused on integrating health and wellness into the built environment, is our guest. Fitwel and its certification system was created by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention and the U.S. General Services Administration. The CDC remains the research and evaluation partner for Fitwel. Frank explains why student housing is setting a tone that her organization expects will spread to other property types. (10/2024)

It’s attracting billions in private investment because it promises to be the renewable power source that could propel the energy transition to full realization, producing massive amounts of carbon-free energy without radioactive waste or fears of meltdowns. We discuss fusion’s progress with Caroline Anderson of the Fusion Industry Association. (02/2025)

Danielle Lombardo, chairwoman of the real estate, hospitality and leisure division of WTW (formerly Willis), discusses the insurance business and how it’s dealing with the tremendous number of natural disasters and huge insurance claims it has received — and the ramifications for the real estate business and the broader U.S. economy. (03/2025)