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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.

The AFIRE Investor Survey: Fall 2023 Pulse Report, underwritten by Holland Partner Group, provides key insights into the commercial real estate strategy of global investors.

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.

Institutional investors frequently outperform individual investors, underscoring how real estate technology can create an advantage.

The “great sag” in the US office market—and potential underlying financial fragilities—do not necessarily portend the calamity popularly forecasted by today’s market skeptics.

Summit Journal: Issue 13 provides insights for the climate change, risk pricing, senior housing, office, and the future of #CRE.

From August to September 2023, AFIRE invites all association members and relevant experts to participate in the Mid-2023 Investor Pulse Survey, underwritten by Holland Partner Group.

According to Anthony Malkin of Empire State Realty Trust, the altered approach to the “new office” won’t be easy or business-as-usual, but there is a compelling future.

Hard times make for opportunistic strategies and rescue capital could see increased adoption in the current climate. How should investors prepare?

A recent DEI survey in real estate shows that the art of talking and listening helps boost recruitment, retention, and employee engagement. And it’s free to implement.

A recent DEI survey in real estate shows that the art of talking and listening helps boost recruitment, retention, and employee engagement. And it’s free to implement.

Urban economist Ed Glaeser discusses how American cities have been fundamentally transformed—and what leaders need to prepare for the future.

A new model for underwriting offices, based on a framework commonly seen in hospitality assets, can maximize value by giving occupiers what they want.

Gentrification has not often been analyzed at the microeconomic level using large-scale granular data. But data science could change that.

As US has exported trends to transform global property markets, trends originating in Europe are likely to now transform the US.

The results of the 2012 AFIRE Annual Survey have revealed that foreign investors intend to continue seeking out real estate investment opportunities in the US, focusing on New York.

In the 18th annual Foreign Investment Survey of AFIRE, 51 percent of survey participants identified the United States as the market offering the best opportunity for long-term capital appreciation.

A prominent association of foreign investors has named New York City as the No. 1-ranked U.S. site for real estate investment.

The U.S. real estate market seems attractive to foreign investors, but that does not mean they will be buying American property this year, a recent survey by the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate has found.