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In recent years, workforce and affordable rental housing in the US has emerged as a meaningful investment opportunity. But the US has a significant affordability challenge, which could potentially be alleviated through private sector strategies.

Rebecca Rockey, Deputy Chief Economist for Cushman & Wakefield, joins the AFIRE Podcast to discuss how cities can disrupt the “urban doom loop.”

Take the new AFIRE Fall 2024 Investor Survey. Eighteen questions, 5-10 minutes to complete, deadline: Thursday, October 31, 2024. Results published November 2024.

For the first time, core and non-core performance can be tracked at the property level, providing a pathway to new strategies.

Syndication continues to grow in popularity among lenders, which is also introducing a host of legal issues into the market. (Part one of a two-part series.)

The SAFETY Act program offers real estate investors liability protections and other benefits—and owners may find it worthwhile to consider making an application.

A confluence of factors is creating one of the best lending environments since the post-GFC era, but changes in the competitive structure of the market will have a more dramatic impact over time.

Summit Journal Issue 16 raises critical questions for everything from reimagined value-add strategies and asset trends to AI and infrastructure.

Simon Treacy, CEO of Private Equity Real Estate for CapitaLand Investment, joins the AFIRE Podcast to discuss what the US can learn from Asia (and vice versa).

David Kramer, President of the Hudson Companies, joins the AFIRE Podcast to discuss what it actually takes to build affordable housing in the US.

JLL’s Hotels & Hospitality Group reports on the state of the hospitality market in the US in mid-2024, and the opportunities ahead.

Madison International Realty reports on the state of the retail office market in the US in mid-2024, and the opportunities ahead.

Lydia Stazen, Executive Director of the Institute of Global Homelessness, joins the AFIRE Podcast to discuss global fixes to homelessness.

Cushman & Wakefield reports on the state of the commercial office market in the US in mid-2024, and the opportunities ahead.

Newmark reports on the state of cold storage real estate in the US in mid-2024, and the opportunities ahead.

Barings Real Estate reports on the state of gap capital for multifamily in summer 2024, and the opportunities ahead.

Tiffany Sanders, President of EDGE Fund Advisors, joins the AFIRE Podcast with Gunnar Branson to talk about climate readiness in real estate.

Melissa Román Burch, COO of New York City Economic Development Corporation, joins the AFIRE Podcast with Gunnar Branson to talk about the New York housing market.

Barings Real Estate reports on the state of gap capital for multifamily in summer 2024, and the opportunities ahead.

American Realty Advisors reports on the state of the multifamily market in summer 2024, and the opportunities ahead.

Deep-pocketed international investors rank Boston as tied for the second-most desirable U.S. region in 2022, according to a survey by the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate (AFIRE).

Favored Property Types Include Multifamily, Life Science and Industrial, According to Annual Survey

The survey shows U.S. CRE continues to be an attractive target for global investors. But they are switching up their strategies in response to post-pandemic trends.

Secondary and tertiary cities are poised to be foreign investor favorites over the next decade in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, as changing consumer preferences continue to influence how capital is deployed.

For thirty years, AFIRE (Association for International Real Estate Investors) has conducted an annual survey to understand the goals, challenges and long-term thinking of international investors in U.S. real estate. Show host Michael Bull interviews AFIRE CEO Gunnar Branson on the results and insights from this year’s survey.

AFIRE released its 2022 International Investor Survey Report, underwritten by CBRE and Holland Partner Group. Austin, Atlanta, and Boston emerge as the top three cities for planned global investment in 2022, according to the report.

Especially since the Centennial Olympic Games 25 years ago, Atlanta has fancied itself an international city and player on the global stage. A new survey suggests the world shares in that opinion, at least in terms of valuable real estate.

New research from the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate may show that global buyers with long-term goals still have an appetite for U.S. real estate.

“The No. 1 most significant finding was the overwhelming support for environmental, social, and governance criteria,” Branson says.

Earlier this year, the AFIRE International Investor Survey found that more than six in 10 respondents expect to increase their investment in tertiary cities in the next three to five years.

Strong growth prospects and less intense competition is leading cross-border investors to secondary and tertiary markets.

The Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate (AFIRE) surveyed investors and found that many intend to increase investment volume in the U.S. this year.

The responses from our investors mirrored the results from a survey released in May 2021 by the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate (AFIRE) […]

For over 30 years, AFIRE has surveyed institutional investors from around the world The results from March’s survey are especially optimistic and very revealing.

During this week’s episode of Leading Voices in Real Estate, Gunnar Branson, CEO of AFIRE, speaks with Matt about current issues facing the CRE business, including his thoughts on what is driving foreign capital into US real estate right now as we are moving forward from the COVID crisis.

According to a recent article in the Austin Business Journal, The Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate (AFIRE) ranked Austin as the top market in the U.S. for foreign investors in 2021.

For instance, in AFIRE’s, the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate 2021 survey, the percentage of investors expecting to put more money into US CRE was much larger than for Europe (17%), Asia-Pacific (9%), the UK (7%), Canada (5%), or Australia and New Zealand (3%).

Gunnar Branson, CEO of AFIRE, Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate joins show host/investment sales broker Michael Bull, CCIM to discuss highlights from their annual survey/report, the 2021 AFIRE International Investor Survey Report.

In a recent poll published by AFIRE, overseas real estate investors preferred Dallas over almost every other US city to buy real estate in 2021; it lands on number 3.

AFIRE found Austin, Boston, and Dallas as the top U.S. cities for planned investment in 2021.