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AFIRE is seeking proposals and article drafts for the next issue Summit Journal, to be released this September. Deadline: July 20, 2024.

As the commercial real estate industry continues to disambiguate post-pandemic uncertainties across all spectra, here are eleven charts to help investors map out the months ahead.

Summit Journal: Issue 15 is AFIRE’s first-ever almanac for the state of commercial real estate markets across all sectors at mid-year 2024.

Mary Ludgin, senior advisor and equity owner for Heitman, joins the AFIRE Podcast with Gunnar Branson to talk CRE and uncertainty in 2024.

Patrick Richard, CEO of Stoneweg US, sits down with the AFIRE Podcast to discuss the current state of ESG in commercial real estate, and why now is the time to lean in to smart sustainability strategy.

While rate hikes and pricing dislocations have frozen CRE liquidity, there is still a significant demand for equity. These conditions create prime vintage for secondary investments.

AFIRE is proud to announce that its publications, podcast, and events have recently been recognized with several top industry awards.

While rate hikes and pricing dislocations have frozen CRE liquidity, there is still a significant demand for equity. These conditions create prime vintage for secondary investments.

Paul Bernard, president and CEO of Affordable Homes & Communities, joins the AFIRE Podcast to talk about new approaches to the growing problem of housing affordability and attainability.

When it comes to market and asset selection, greater availability of property-level operational data and sophisticated tools to measure, analyze, and predict it (including AI) can help address key questions.

Without a framework that considers the causal factors underpinning the current office market dislocation, investors are left sifting through millions of square feet of office space in search of the right property.

General Stan McChrystal (Ret.), CEO and Chairman of the McChrystal Group, sits down with podcast host Gunnar Branson to talk about the state of risk management for global investors.

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.

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.