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

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

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.

Mandi Wedin, CEO of Feroce Real Estate Advisors, draws on her experience growing up in Alaska to help investors learn a “frontier mentality.”

There used to be an inverse relationship between the change in office jobs and office vacancies. That relationship broke down after COVID.

Under the shadow of a slow-burning bank crisis in 2023, should institutional investors consider allocating to short duration real estate debt?

There is a growing divide between valuations and real-time pricing. Can the global real estate industry achieve universal consistency?

Some economic forecasters are still planning on the likelihood of a recession coming sooner than later. Should investors in commercial mortgages worry?

The challenges of inflation, interest rates, and returns to the office can be overwhelming, but according to Hans Nordby of Lionstone Investments, changing demographic forces may be the biggest story of our time.

The recent rise in interest rates has, among other things, led to dramatically lowered transaction volumes which, in turn, has led to much uncertainty about today’s market-clearing capitalization rates – as well as where such rates will come to rest in the future.

Only a few years after many observers were declaring that New York City, San Francisco and other gateway U.S. cities have forever lost their appeal to commercial real estate investors, new sentiment surveys are showing gateway markets are coming back in favor.

The U.S. media continues putting rising interest rates and ongoing inflationary concerns in its headlines. Yet despite all of this, international institutional investors continue to view U.S. commercial real estate as “a preferred destination, relative to Europe, for real estate investment across property types,” according to a recent survey released by the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate (AFIRE).

More than 20 properties in the Dallas-Fort Worth area tied to commercial mortgage-backed securities are considered to be financially stressed as property values decline or vacancy rises, reflecting the nationwide fallout from reduced demand.

AFIRE, the association for international real estate investors focused on commercial property in the United States, has released its AFIRE International Investor Survey: Q1 2023 Pulse Report, underwritten by Holland Partner Group.

Allocations among top investors for commercial real estate in the US were up 6% over a year ago, while European investments declined by 5%, according to a survey by AFIRE.

The U.S. remains a preferred global destination for commercial real estate investment with allocations up 6% from 2022, compared to a 5% decline in European investment, according to AFIRE’s International Investor Survey: Q1 2023 Pulse Report.

AFIRE, the association for international real estate investors focused on commercial property in the United States, has released its AFIRE International Investor Survey: Q1 2023 Pulse Report, underwritten by Holland Partner Group.

The US trails the EU on adoption of ESG investment principles, with a consensus that more incentives are needed for momentum.

Real estate company Climate Core Capital and the Harvard Graduate School of Design explored how quickly some of the nation’s most desirable real estate markets would heat up beyond the point of tolerable human living in what they called a “Death Valley Index.”

While the strong dollar makes acquisitions costlier, the U.S. offers a safe haven from geopolitical upheaval.

AFIRE survey shows reuse, redevelopment top of mind as market turbulence looms.

AFIRE released its Summer 2022 International Survey Pulse this past week, which found mounting concerns about US commercial real estate.

Foreign institutional investors are adapting to market headwinds as they grapple with mounting inflation and rising interest rates in the US, according to the latest survey from AFIRE, the association for international real estate investors focused on commercial property here.

Chicago’s tech sector is on the rise, but to keep the momentum going, commercial real estate brokers and investors alike advise investing in places for well-paid tech talent to live.

Rising rates and inflation are making it hard for foreign investors to assign correct valuations to assets. But experts say those are temporary setbacks and cross-border investment will rebound.

On this episode, Gunnar shared his insights on why the U.S. Real Estate Market continues to attract foreign investors.

Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) have led bipartisan meetings with lawmakers over the last two weeks to explore potential areas of agreement for a scaled-back energy and climate legislative package before the midterm elections.

Foreign investors in commercial real estate have long preferred to place their money in a small handful of top-tier cities like New York, Chicago and San Francisco.

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.

New favorites are emerging as international buyers plan bigger allocations this year.