Summit Journal

With emerging crises and uncertainties in economies, foreign relations, and social attitudes, the real estate industry is facing a paradigm shift of its own.

The year of COVID-19 has been rife with anxiety and unrest—nothing new for real estate, but what does it mean for the future of the industry?

Infrastructure, mixed-use communities, logistics, retail, ethics, asset management, demographics, and so forth—and a common thread of futurism that ties it all together.

Imposter syndrome. It’s the ugly little secret of high achievers everywhere, whether award-winning actors, world-renowned writers or titans of industry.

Integral to AFIRE’s member mission is the need to create a space for experts to convene and discuss pressing questions that affect their own work and the success of their clients and their investments.

The imagination required for innovation enhances the vitality of our investments while simultaneously serving the goals of our businesses and the investors, employees, and communities we serve.

If everyone plays their part, whether out of religious conviction, private conscience, or pragmatism, together we can work in a decent society grounded in ethical business conduct and a healthier commercial world.

Seeking future-focused thought leadership across real estate, institutional investing, ESG, technology, management, economics, COVID-19, and more.

Why it’s important for investors to find ways to calculate political risk in cities – especially now.

Pandemics can dramatically change society, the economy, and governments–especially if they alter the way people have to live and work for longer than a few months.

Why are real estate companies investing in PropTech solutions? There are numerous reasons companies are going digital, but according to the survey three stand out: efficiency, cost, and decision making.

Hudson Square is poised to be the next iconic neighborhood in New York City after being long overlooked and regarded as primarily a manufacturing district.

Businesses leading the way towards a structured tech financing solution are actively separating their capital expenditure for the physical real estate from capital for their technology, brand, and people.

Altogether, the 8-9% unlevered CRE performance rule of thumb might well prove to be too optimistic for the long-term period ahead.

Many of us understand innovation
in theory, but in practice, it’s often misunderstood. It is not an
endpoint. It is both a process and an action.

While GDP is often used to measure economic size and strength, retirement income and transfer payments can be used to go deeper.

Visibility into the underlying cash-flow streams in real estate enables investors to apply a 360-degree approach to their property strategy

Sustainability has long been thought of as a cost, rather than something that can drive value – but that type of narrow thinking is starting to change.

Will increased state and local tax intake in major markets be unhealthy for real estate portfolios?

Liquidity and risk are difficult to separate, as there is a strong correlation between markets that institutional investors view as liquid and those they perceive as low risk.