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Ext. PublicationLocation Cubed: NCREIF Fall Conference 2025 Recap – Real Estate Valuation and Sustainability | Podcast
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What strategic pivots in real estate valuation and sustainability are steering the industry today? Discover how these trends are reshaping the landscape with Selina McUmber and Ashly Pleasant in this special edition of Weaver: Beyond the Numbers, Location Cubed, recorded live from the National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries (NCREIF) Fall Conference.
Key Points:
- The shift to refreshed KPIs provides clarity on controversial topics like climate risk and human capital.
- Daily pricing in real estate assets offers insight, helping investors in direct contribution funds manage diversified portfolios.
- Alternative property types, including industrial outdoor storage and data centers, present unique opportunities amid supply constraints and growing demand.
Selina and Ashly open the conversation by discussing the evolving landscape of real estate investing and the need for strategic pivots in both valuation and sustainability. They examine how updating key performance indicators (KPIs) can better align with current market behaviors and expectations. By rebranding terms like “climate risk” to “natural hazards” and framing diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) as human capital, asset managers and investors gain clearer context for decision making. “It’s a matter of diffusing the situation by getting away from the more controversial or more politically charged terminology,” explains Ashly, emphasizing the importance of clarity in communicating value.
There’s also a growing interest in daily pricing for real estate assets, a method designed to capture incremental value changes between quarterly valuations. Selina notes that while these movements may be modest day-to-day, they offer meaningful insight over time, helping investors in defined contribution funds make informed decisions as they manage diverse portfolios.
The insightful episode also highlights emerging opportunities across alternative real estate assets, such as the supply-driven appeal of industrial outdoor storage and the accelerating demand for data centers. Selina and Ashly close by outlining the regulatory forces shaping the market, including climate-focused legislation and evolving sustainability reporting requirements that investors and managers will need to monitor closely.
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