Summit Journal

Bridge Investment Group’s 2024 Outlook suggests that, to navigate the curve for the year ahead, accelerate through the turn and find the appropriate entry and exit points, rather than trying to perfectly time the market.

Martha Peyton, CRE, PhD highlights the current state of the market and calls for modest growth and retreating inflation 2024.

New York Life Real Estate Investors discuss trends in rising operating expenses for various commercial real estate asset types.

The question must be asked – will rising insurance and other expenses put a brake on development in high-growth regions?

For the past several years, real estate industry watchers have hailed insurance costs as the canary in the coal mines of climate change. With global temperatures continuing to rise at a geologically unprecedented pace, the canary remains in flight.

Summit Journal: Issue 14 provides insights for the office, multifamily, industrial, and the coming challenges of 2024.

ome investors tend to think that diversification comes down to merely investing in different asset classes, but an effectively diverse portfolio will include assets with low and preferably negative correlation.

The leading political and economic position of the US is currently under threat by global competition, but key trends in demography and innovation could change the equation.

A cradle-to-cradle ESG risk management approach, including analyses of climate and governance risks, and potential financial impacts, can future-proof strategies and processes.

An upswing in occupancies and rents has taken root, and the key age demographic is on the precipice of what is anticipated to be unprecedented growth.

An upswing in occupancies and rents has taken root, and the key age demographic is on the precipice of what is anticipated to be unprecedented growth.

During the pandemic, we learned how to do anything from anywhere—and how we defined building usage evolved in kind. So where do we go next?

Multifamily properties with “good bones” often offer strong upside potential through renovation, rehabilitation, rebranding, and repositioning.

AFIRE’s Summit Journal is currently seeking abstracts, proposals, and submissions for Issue 14, which will be published in early winter 2024.

Growing anti-China sentiment is largely driving the policy discussion around foreign investment in US real estate.

Conventional commercial real estate orthodoxy suggests that adaptive reuse is not an economical investment—but the facts tell a different story.

Web3 applications offer unique capability to monetize real estate carbon value—but web3 tech alone cannot solve dysfunction of the carbon marketplace.

By gathering key property data and providing proper documentation to insurers, CRE owners may be able to secure reduced premiums and/or coverage for properties in high-risk areas.

Investors have plenty of reasons to be worried about climate risk, but there are already winners in the new economy—and there will be more.

Translating rising climate risks over the next decades requires a cash flow model that starts today—and should be a necessary exercise for all investors.