Following AFIRE’s announcement earlier this year claiming three new awards for the association’s Summit Journal, AFIRE is pleased to add two more wins to its growing awards roster, including 2026 Platinum Award from the Hermes Creative Awards, and a Jesse H. Neal Award, both for leadership in association publications.
The addition of these two new awards brings Summit Journal’s accolades to 30 total awards since 2020—a high water mark unmet by any other trade journal focused on commercial real estate or institutional investment.
The new and renewed awards include:
2026 PLATINUM HERMES CREATE AWARD GRAPHIC DESIGN USA AWARD
The Hermes Creative Awards honor the messengers and creators of the information revolution. Armed with their imaginations and computers, Hermes winners bring their ideas to life through traditional and digital platforms. Each year, competition judges evaluate the creative industry’s best publications, branding collateral, websites, videos, and advertising, marketing, and communication programs.
The competition is administered by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals.
Established in 1995, AMCP is one of the largest and oldest, third-party evaluators of creative work in the world. As part of its mission, AMCP fosters and supports the efforts of creative professionals who contribute their unique talents to public service and charitable endeavors.
This is Summit Journal’s second Hermes Creative Award, following a 2024 Gold Award.
2026 JESSE H. NEAL AWARD
The Jesse H. Neal Awards are the most prestigious editorial honors in the field of specialized journalism. Named after Jesse H. Neal, the first managing director of American Business Media, the Neal Awards were established in 1955 to recognize and reward editorial excellence in business media.
Award-winning content reports on major industry issues of the time. Neal winners have exposed corruption and conflicts of interest and brought attention to major new trends, brilliant leadership, innovative tactics, and key developments in global businesses.
This is Summit Journal’s second nomination in the Jesse H. Neal Awards, following its first from 2023. It joins four other industry publications awarded in the Best Single Issue category.
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FROM THE LATEST ISSUE:
Note from the Editor: Issue #20
Benjamin van Loon | AFIRE
AFIRE Investor Survey: The Case for US Real Estate in 2026
Benjamin van Loon | AFIRE
The Data Center Pipeline: Is it a Boom, or a Bubble?
Scot Bommarito, William Maher, Andrew Janko, Amber Hughes | RCLCO Fund Advisors
Autonomous Intelligence and the Global CIO: Formalizing Conviction in a Fragmented Market
Francis Huang | Apers AI
A Home Genome Project: How a City Learning Cohort Can Create AI Systems for Optimizing Housing Supply
Brookings
How C-PACE (and Stretch PACE) are Rewiring Global Real Estate Finance for the Energy Transition
Jonathan Seabolt | Clearwater PACE
Solar Wave: Community Solar is Set to Transform Lease Income
Michael Sanduski | Lumen Energy
Trade Winds Redrawn: US Tariffs and Commercial Real Estate
Stewart Rubin and Marshall Swett | New York Life Real Estate Investors
The Complexity Premium: Leveraging the Alpha Opportunity in Regulated Gateway Cities
Donal Warde | Consultant + Richard Cadena | Bank Hapoalim (BHI) + Wenpeng Ding | Zicklin School of Business
NYC Office Recovery: Repricing Physical Infrastructure in the Age of AI
Scott Crowe | RXR
Beyond Motivation: Why Invest in US Affordable Housing? And Why Now?
Deborah La Franchi | SDS Capital Group
Build-to-Rent: Redefining Housing for Renters and Investors
Paul Kolevsohn, Alex Lachman, Lev Kling-Bronstein | Stockbridge + Don Walker, Kevin Cody | John Burns Real Estate Consulting
Inflation Fighters: The Case for Mission-Critical NNN
EJ Wislar | PRP Real Assets
Private Apartment Equity or Private Debt: Comparing Investment Performance of the Two Quadrants
Gleb Nechayev | Berkshire Residential Investments
Meet Them Where They Are: National Demand Landscape Survey
Kevin Hudak and Michael Broder | RCKRBX
REIT Puts and Calls: Public Market Signals for Private Real Estate Investors
William Pattison, Michael Steinberg, Carsten Raaum, Kiel Deitrich, Jacob Kurosaki | MetLife Investment Management
Modernizing Management: How Structural Shifts in Real Estate are Rebalancing the GP and LP Relationship
Finn DuComb-Festor and Miles Treaster | Cushman & Wakefield
Clarifying Vision: Exploring the Dynamics of Slowing Capital Flows
Cliff Booth | Westmount Realty Capital
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