Covid-19 has been the great accelerator of trends. 

While the real estate industry should finally become more efficient, local knowledge and experience still trumps technology in producing outsized returns and best-in-class real estate investment managers with Scott Brown, Fulcrum Global Investors.

Key highlights and insights into post-Covid trends, include:

• Retirement, wealth and sovereign wealth portfolios continue to grow (after a serious Covid-19 adjustment) globally. Real estate allocations continue to grow globally from the benefits of real estate in a multi-asset class portfolio. 

• Growing populations have the desire and ability to pay for better and safer working, living and playing conditions. 

• More and more real estate continues to be transitioned (e.g. value-add and development) into the institutionally acceptable/ securitizable assets. 

• Balancing profitability with community, diversity, environmental and common sense respectful communications considerations are growing more and more important every day.

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First published in NAREIM Dialogues Spring 2021, published in association with IREI.