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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.

Jeffrey Kanne, president and CEO of National Real Estate Advisors, sits down with podcast host Gunnar Branson to talk about the “new railways” of real estate: data centers.

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.

Mark Zandi, Chief Economist for Moody’s Analytics, joins Gunnar Branson and the AFIRE Podcast to talk interest rates, CRE, what’s next for the global economy.

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.

The AFIRE Q1 2024 Investor Survey, underwritten by Holland Partner Group, provides key insights into the commercial real estate strategy of global investors.

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.

AFIRE requests responses from all AFIRE member organizations for the new Q1 2024 AFIRE Investor Survey, underwritten by Holland Partner Group. Deadline: February 2, 2024.

The year 2023 has been the hottest year in recent record—and it will likely be the coldest year for the rest of our lives.

The year 2023 has been the hottest year in recent record—and it will likely be the coldest year for the rest of our lives.

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.

For years, prices in the New York residential real estate market rose sharply. Lately, however, prices have been asked more and more frequently, at which hardly a buyer could be found for the respective object.

Overseas buyers of property will not be able to hide their identities under the register plan, but the buoyancy of the UK market will continue to attract their money, analysts say.

Los Angeles has topped New York in global real estate investment in 2017, according to a new JLL report, making it the No. 1 U.S. city.

Among foreign investors, interest in New York has slipped and London has assumed first place as the number one global city for their real estate investments.

New York is no longer the unquestioned king when it comes to attracting foreign capital for real estate.

New York City took a double hit in an annual survey of real estate investors, which saw London overtake it in first place globally and Los Angeles tie it for top U.S. city.

Foreign investors in real estate assign high importance to the potential for wealth and security—and according to new research, the U.S. is expected to offer both more than any other country in 2018.

With every billion-dollar check a Chinese institution writes for a Manhattan trophy property, similarities to the Japanese investment boom of the late 1980s become more apparent.

One consequence of falling oil prices may be Houston’s ability to attract foreign investment. A 2017 survey by the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate found that contracting oil prices are making some overseas buyers skittish.

New York is in its seventh year as the prime U.S. city for foreign investors, and its third year as the top global city, members of the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate (AFIRE) indicated in the survey.

The pace of foreign purchases of major King County buildings has tripled, with Chinese companies heavily represented — and now some are even building projects here themselves.

Investors looking for the next new thing in the US property market would do well to look straight through all the glass office towers rising in gateway markets and focus their gaze on residential property across the country.

The U.S. property market landscape in 2016 will appear much like it did in 2015, with a number of interwoven aspects that bode well for savvy investors who can step out in front of ongoing—and, in some cases, intensifying—economic, demographic, and technological trends.

A directory of Washington office building owners reads like a United Nations dinner invitation: Norway, Germany, South Korea, Japan, Chile, Kuwait.

London, as we have all heard, has been taken over by foreign oligarchs who hardly ever visit their dwellings, pricing out regular hard-working intellectuals and dulling the city’s vibrancy.

Foreign buyers often find it easier to buy property assets in one-off deals from private sellers because it is easier to reach a deal quietly, with less competition than there is for REIT assets, said James Fetgatter, chief executive of AFIRE.

New York City regained its top position among global commercial real estate buyers, unseating London and highlighting the appeal of U.S. properties in general, according to a survey of international investors released Tuesday.

According to the latest AFIRE Survey, London has been chosen as the number one global city for foreign property investment, while the US remains the most secure country.

To foreign investors, commercial real estate in the U.S. looks like “the cleanest shirt in the dirty clothes pile,” as one investor told Jim Fetgatter, chief executive of AFIRE at a recent investment conference.

Markets in the United States dominate as the top global cities for real estate investment, according to participants in the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate’s (AFIRE) annual survey.