Almost 60 professionals attended NAREIM’s second Black Real Estate Roundtable meeting in Atlanta, undertaking personality tests, speaking about leadership, career development, mentoring and sponsorship.

Sept 9, 2022: 2021 was a year of rising revenues and expenses, however EBITDA margins still came under pressure thanks to unprecedented headcount growth, according to the results of the 2022 Global Management Benchmarking Survey.

NAREIM exceeds 100 members in 2021, delivers 10 benchmarking surveys, 13+ meetings and more. Read the Year in Review

As managers bring back employees into the physical office en-masse, they should embrace 6 DEI principles as part of their firm's daily practice. Belay Investment Group explains the tactics.

As we look to our post-Covid future, societal, racial, health inequities will be highlighted more and more. Calls to action — from our tenants, from our investors and our employees — will grow. Our challenge today is how to address them.

Women and minority professionals represented 15% of executive management positions, respectively, in real estate investment management, the 2021 NAREIM Diversity & Inclusion Survey has revealed.

2020 was a year when everything changed. To pay tribute to the hard work, successes and innovation that took place in 2020, NAREIM has compiled key takeaways from its meetings, benchmarking surveys and member polls and articles to provide a review of the work of members and their teams.

March 31, 2023: Almost 60 professionals attended NAREIM’s second Black Real Estate Roundtable meeting in Atlanta, undertaking personality tests, speaking about leadership, career development, mentoring and sponsorship.

Sept 9, 2022: 2021 was a year of rising revenues and expenses, however EBITDA margins still came under pressure thanks to unprecedented headcount growth, according to the results of the 2022 Global Management Benchmarking Survey.

Dec 21, 2021: Two-thirds of managers are offering employees to flex schedules on long-term basis, with third of industry offering 2 days a week at home.

Real estate investment management net AUM growth slowed to 6% in 2020 - the first slowdown since 2016 for the NAREIM Global Management Survey. Read the key takeaways here.

Recruitment of diverse talent is the top strategy for improving DEI - followed by tying manager performance to DEI metrics and implementing mentoring programs.

StepStone Group’s Global Head of Responsible Investing, Suzanne Tavill, says that the real estate sector is such an important employer that, by addressing D&I, the sector can have a material impact on improving social equity.

Executive Officer meeting 2020 presentations. The meeting highlighted best practices on remote leadership, outlook on office impacts and effects of racial inequality in our country.

Oct 14, 2022: From compensation models, carry and promote to digital assets and leadership training. Download the presentations from the Executive Officer meeting.

Apr 26, 2022: NAREIM’s Spring 2022 issue of Dialogues is available for download. Members highlight DEI, ESG, Defined Contribution capital raising, alternatives & more.

Firms are having to rethink strategies for attracting and retaining talent, for succession planning and for ensuring the longevity of their organization within a growing industry. NAREIM and Ferguson speak to BGO, Clarion, Green Cities & Waterton.

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

CPE article: The representation of women and minority professionals at the executive management level in commercial real estate went on a notable upswing over the past four years, according to the latest NAREIM D&I survey,

GCM Grosvenor opens up its data correlating performance and diversity and reveals there is no sacrifice of returns when investing in diverse real estate managers. A study of more than 250 diverse managers from 2012 through 2018 found an IRR or MOIC outperformance above industry benchmarks.