2026 Q2 ODCE and NCREIF Property Index (NPI) Results
View and download the July 2026 Q2 ODCE and NCREIF Property Index (NPI) Results, internally crafted by the RFA team
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Occupying Force
The NCREIF Open End Diversified Core Equity Fund Index can offer a critical glimpse into which types of office properties—and which markets—have suffered the most in terms of leasing occupancy,…
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Soft Apartment Market Makes Hold-Sell Decisions More Difficult
The US apartment sector is currently experiencing a rough patch in terms of elevated supply, reduced debt availability, higher borrowing costs, and lower values resulting from stagnant rents and higher…
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Underperformance Paradox
Some recent research argues that more direct approaches to real estate investing can more effectively address the characteristics, opportunities, and risks associated with the current state of commercial real estate.
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Academics Question the Value of Private Real Estate Funds: What’s an Investor to Do?
A growing body of research has broadly found that closed-end real estate funds, in aggregate, have not delivered acceptable net returns across multiple metrics: relative to alternative opportunities, to risks,…
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Data Centers: Capitalizing on the Data Explosion
Data Centers: Capitalizing on the Data Explosion September 16, 2023 By William Maher, Director of Strategy and Research, RFA; Michael Essig, Vice President, RFA Originally published in PREA Quarterly Magazine…
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Single-Family Rental Housing – Institutional Opportunities
Single-family homes have been an important part of the US rental housing market for decades and even centuries. Individual investors have long owned houses they rent to a wide variety…
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Harnessing Automation in Your Asset Management System
Asset management from an institutional perspective has several challenges when scaling from single assets to having several hundred
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ULI Forecast Shows Economic and Real Estate Slowdown Likely in Near Term with Recovery Expected in 2025
Prospects for the U.S. real estate market and economy changed little over the past six months, based on a survey of real estate economists.
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NMHC: Code 53 – Rick Pollack
RCLCO Fund Advisors’ Managing Director Rick Pollack was a guest on an episode of the NMHC: Code 53 podcast, From Office to Residential: The Rise of Commercial Conversions in Multifamily…
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Time For an ESG Reset: Results from RCLCO’s Survey
The results suggest a mixed story, and, RCLCO believes, a general lack of appreciation for why ESG became a matter of discussion in the first place. This article attempts to…
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Office Games
Life sciences real estate has been a “hot” property type for the past decade—and even more since the pandemic. Will all the capital targeting the space be placed where it…
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Forecasters Downgrade Prospects for U.S. Real Estate Sector and Economy
Real estate economists offered a less optimistic forecast of the near-term U.S. real estate and economic environment compared with six months ago, downgrading predictions for a wide range of economic,…
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