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During a time of unprecedented uncertainty and disruption, how should businesses approach the “new metrics of performance,” and how will ESG evolve in 2021?
Data center investments have proven resilient in periods of economic volatility—and they’re only going to become more essential and important into the future.
During a time of unprecedented uncertainty and disruption, how should businesses approach the “new metrics of performance,” and how will ESG evolve in 2021?
Several key trends are forcing change in the global commercial real estate industry, driving demand for new skills. How is the industry responding?
If history is a guide, the time to invest in hotels is when things look bleak. This appears to be one of those times.
The pandemic has heavily impacted the hospitality sector, but a growing wave of non-traditional investors has shown heightened interest in getting a piece of the evolving industry.
Data center investments have proven resilient in periods of economic volatility—and they’re only going to become more essential and important into the future.
Delivering on the service promises of the on-demand economy requires the kind of reimagined supply chain that will support industrial real estate growth for years to come.
As cities in the US adapt to a new normal, city leaders, planners, developers, and investors have a new challenge: to define the “new normal” of the built environment. And though it stands unique among American cities, Washington, DC could have answers for our collective urban futures.
AFIRE has been awarded two Stevie Awards as part of the American Business Awards (ABA) 19th annual awards program.
The pandemic has heavily impacted the hospitality sector, but a growing wave of non-traditional investors has shown heightened interest in getting a piece of the evolving industry.
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the advantages of single-family living. It appears to have accelerated an existing trend of migration to less dense, more affordable areas.
If history is a guide, the time to invest in hotels is when things look bleak. This appears to be one of those times.
Just as the pandemic has accelerated changes in culture, it has underscored the symbiosis between the built environment and the natural world. What’s the key to “greening” the next generation of commercial real estate?
The COVID-19 crisis highlights the advantages of single-family living and appears to have accelerated an existing trend of migration to less dense, more affordable areas.
AFIRE has been awarded two Stevie Awards as part of the American Business Awards (ABA) 19th annual awards program.
The investment community can have an active role in an equitable economic recovery—but it will require the necessary discomfort of recasting the traditional risk/return framework.
According to American Realty Advisors, the future of residential investments is all about demographics—and the forces behind them.
The 2021 survey, conducted in March 2021 and underwritten by Holland Partner Group, reflects investor sentiment and was designed to help understand the goals, challenges, and impacts of international investments on US real estate opportunities.
During a time of unprecedented uncertainty and disruption, how should businesses approach the “new metrics of performance,” and how will ESG evolve in 2021?
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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.
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.