Summit Journal

Summit Journal: Issue 15 is AFIRE’s first-ever almanac for the state of commercial real estate markets across all sectors at mid-year 2024.

While rate hikes and pricing dislocations have frozen CRE liquidity, there is still a significant demand for equity. These conditions create prime vintage for secondary investments.

While rate hikes and pricing dislocations have frozen CRE liquidity, there is still a significant demand for equity. These conditions create prime vintage for secondary investments.

When it comes to market and asset selection, greater availability of property-level operational data and sophisticated tools to measure, analyze, and predict it (including AI) can help address key questions.

Without a framework that considers the causal factors underpinning the current office market dislocation, investors are left sifting through millions of square feet of office space in search of the right property.

By blending emerging capabilities such data fluency and AI literacy with distinctly human strengths, creativity, and emotional adeptness, real estate leaders will be positioned to have an outsized impact for the commercial real estate industry.

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.

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.

Anticipated moderation in new developments and the positive outlook for rent growth signal a more balanced multifamily market. Until then, investors should maintain a strategic and long-term perspective.

Anticipated moderation in new developments and the positive outlook for rent growth signal a more balanced multifamily market. Until then, investors should maintain a strategic and long-term perspective.

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.