Strategies for Credit Unions to Win in the Re-emerging Home Equity Market

The financial crisis strained the market, reducing the availability of equity and limiting borrower credit access. Home values fell significantly as the real estate market struggled, however the new HELOC market presents renewed opportunities.

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LaSalle Investment Management

LaSalle is one of the world's leading investment managers. We build long-term and trusted relationships with our clients – wherever they are and wherever they invest. We are focused solely on one asset class: real estate. This enables us to deliver competitive investment performance, along with the highest levels of client service. Our diverse client base consists of more than 400 investors across the globe, including pension funds, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, endowments and individual investors. LaSalle has rich heritage spanning more than three decades, and now boasts more than 700 employees in 24 offices across the globe, with $58.3B assets under management (as of Q4 2015).

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8 Trends That Will Shape Real Estate And Facility Management By 2027

whitePaper | July 1, 2022

The advancing field of technology continues to drive development in the world of real estate and facility management. Over the years, it has yielded a plethora of advantages for managers in this sector. It can help predict potential issues, reduce administrative work, assist organisations in complying with industry standards, and generally make buildings better places for people to spend their time.

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The Energy Challenge in Commercial Real Estate

whitePaper | October 27, 2022

Commercial real estate used to be an ‘easy’ investment, with long-term leases and stable, predictable ROI. But the office real estate landscape has profoundly changed. First with the emergence of coworking spaces, shorter-term leases and pay-as-you-go flexibility. Then the market was shaken up by the COVID-19 pandemic and the massive remote work experiment that it forced almost overnight.

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UWI Democratising Wealth Creation

whitePaper | September 8, 2022

India is at the cusp of exponential growth driven by a host of factors that include an enabling regulatory environment, thrust on domestic manufacturing, and growing exports. Correspondingly, wealth in India is accelerating at an unprecedented rate and investors are increasingly demanding innovative investment solutions that they can access in a seamless, efficient, and cost-effective manner. However, the current ecosystem has several prevailing gaps that hinder product side innovation and preclude large swathes of investors from accessing the limited number of innovative products that are currently available in the market. Due to these gaps, investment managers are unable to create innovative products and distribute them at scale while investors need to compromise when it comes to making optimal investment decisions.

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Green Real Estate Investment

whitePaper | July 11, 2022

Few trends are as influential across industries as the growing need for sustainability. In this scenario, green buildings also assume an important role for investors. With buildings accounting for the largest share of the energy efficiency market, green buildings represent a global investment opportunity. According to the United Nations (UN), by 2050, about 68% of humanity will live in cities, which account for only 3% of the Earth's surface and consume 78% of energy and produce 60% of greenhouse gas emissions.

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The future of artificial intelligence in real estate transactions

whitePaper | July 7, 2022

We undertook research with real estate professionals across Europe to find out their views on the current use of artificial intelligence (AI), their predictions for its use in the future and what may be preventing its adoption.

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The International Real Estate Index — A hedge against expected inflation

whitePaper | June 10, 2022

Real estate has long had the reputation of being at least a partial hedge against inflation, since both rental income and property values typically respond positively to inflationary pressures. The iSTOXX Developed and emerging Markets ex uSA PK Vn Index (“Int’l Real estate Index”) has lived up to this reputation historically and is continuing to do so in the current inflationary environment.

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LaSalle Investment Management

LaSalle is one of the world's leading investment managers. We build long-term and trusted relationships with our clients – wherever they are and wherever they invest. We are focused solely on one asset class: real estate. This enables us to deliver competitive investment performance, along with the highest levels of client service. Our diverse client base consists of more than 400 investors across the globe, including pension funds, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, endowments and individual investors. LaSalle has rich heritage spanning more than three decades, and now boasts more than 700 employees in 24 offices across the globe, with $58.3B assets under management (as of Q4 2015).

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