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The passing of the gavel: AFIRE welcomes our new chair, Amy Price, and thanks our outgoing chair Steve McCarthy for his stewardship and service. And that's just one of the many significant events happening today at our Annual Member Meeting in New York City, where such leading experts as Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, Greg Lindsay and Melissa Román Burch join commercial real estate thought leaders like Len ODonnell, David Franklin and Sabrina Unger as we all work to guide our industry through its next investment cycle. Thanks to our sponsors: Yardi Investment Suite, Affinius Capital, CBRE Investment Management, The Dermot Company, LP, Grosvenor, Holland Partner Group, REIT Funding, LLC, JLL, National Real Estate Advisors Register for future AFIRE events: https://lnkd.in/gqChSYfg #realestate #USrealestate #commercialrealestate #investment #realestateinvestment

We are delighted to welcome AFIRE members to New York City for our Annual Member Meeting at 583 Park Avenue, featuring a keynote from former Secretary of State John Kerry, the release of our latest award-winning Summit Journal and presentations from a wide variety of experts, including Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, Mark Gibson, Ryan McCormick, Greg Lindsay, Melissa Román Burch, Dan Domb, Mary Lang, Len ODonnell, Sabrina Unger, Drew Conway, David Franklin, Alexandra Nicoletti and Matias Recchia, among others. We're all looking forward to in-depth conversations focused on the future of real estate with some of the most respected leaders in our industry, including Mike Hu, Joao Nuno Madeira de Andrade, Lili Dunn, Paul Meyer, Byron Carlock, Sylvia Gross, Steve McCarthy and Michel Schram. Thanks to our sponsors: Yardi Investment Suite, Affinius Capital, CBRE Investment Management, The Dermot Company, LP, Grosvenor, Holland Partner Group, REIT Funding, LLC, JLL, National Real Estate Advisors Learn more: https://lnkd.in/e_-NQxuk

THIS WEEK: The AFIRE Annual Member Meeting in New York hosts the leading minds in commercial real estate, including Mark Gibson, the CEO of event sponsor JLL, who will provide a capital markets update entitled Appetite for Risk. Learn what capital markets trends will most affect commercial real estate over the next quarter — and the next year. Are we at the bottom? And do we see the end of 2024 and early 2025 as a time of accelerating deal volume and debt availability? What's the pulse of the market? Register now: https://lnkd.in/e_-NQxuk #capitalmarkets #commercialrealestate #realestate #USrealestate #CRE And a big thanks to all our other event sponsors: Yardi Investment Suite, Affinius Capital, CBRE Investment Management, The Dermot Company, LP, Grosvenor, Holland Partner Group, REIT Funding, LLC, National Real Estate Advisors

Many of the challenges facing the US real estate market mirror those seen in the Asia-Pacific region. So as investors are planning for the rest of the year, it’s the perfect time to speak with Simon Treacy of Singapore’s CapitaLand Investment (#CLI), which manages properties in more than 40 countries. Treacy is the CEO of the fund’s Private Equity Real Estate, Real Assets division. “The world is pretty much synchronized now,” says Treacy. “The same discussions you're having in the US, we're having in most markets around Asia.” On tap: • What are Treacy’s predictions for the rest of 2024? • What’s in store for valuations? • How will changing interest rates affect global property markets? • And are we finally going to see a breakthrough from a sluggish market to something that’s a little more active? Plus: Lessons for the US market from an Asian perspective. “We are starting to see [that] we're coming towards the end game of the interest rate cycle,” Treacy observes, “and as a consequence of that, we're just starting to see transactions click up a little bit more.” Listen and watch here: https://lnkd.in/gZN4B-5y #USrealestate #realestate #asiapacific #commercialrealestate

Time to look ahead to the AFIRE Annual Member Meeting, where we're excited to host Melissa Román Burch talking about "New York Living: Trends and Challenges in Residential Real Estate." It's the investors' all-in-one guide to the most important US gateway city from the ultimate insider: New York City Economic Development Corporation's chief operating officer. Register today:  https://lnkd.in/e_-NQxuk #NYC #NewYorkCity #NewYork #realestate #commercialrealestate #CRE And a special thanks to our event sponsors: JLL, Affinius Capital, CBRE Investment Management, The Dermot Company, LP, Grosvenor, Holland Partner Group, REIT Funding, LLC, National Real Estate Advisors

#Augmentedreality, #autonomous everything, #AI, the future of the built environment and the American landscape: At next month's AFIRE Annual Member Meeting, urban futurist Greg Lindsay of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Future Urban Collectives lab will describe the many different ways that technology will change commercial real estate in the years ahead in a talk entitled, "The Way We'll Live Next." Reserve your spot today: https://lnkd.in/dADjFPQx And a special thanks to our event sponsors: Affinius Capital, CBRE Investment Management, The Dermot Company, LP, Grosvenor, Holland Partner Group, REIT Funding, LLC, JLL, National Real Estate Advisors #autonomousvehicles #micromobility #augmentedreality #urbanism #realestate #cities

How can affordable housing become a reality in cities like New York, whose current blueprint and zoning regulation is not easily suited to modern market-rate and affordable housing development? In our latest episode of the AFIRE podcast, CEO and host Gunnar Branson speaks with David Kramer, president of The Hudson Companies, Inc., a leading developer in NYC, about what it takes to build affordable housing in a city made for anything but. It’s an entertaining conversation about the challenges of living and developing real estate in America’s key “gateway” city. With decades-worth of insider perspective and a whole host of entertaining analogies, Kramer’s interview provides a portrait of a New York developer doing his best to contribute to a city where people love to be—and what other cities can learn from this approach. Listen or watch now: https://lnkd.in/dbMxnXBA #NYrealestate #USrealestate #affordablehousing #NYC #housingcrisis #realestate

Thanks to Zach Demuth, global head of hotels research at JLL, for his hotel asset class update, the last article to post from Summit Journal 15. In the piece, Demuth makes the case that multiple catalysts may spur hotel investment, including: 1. Discount to replacement cost 2. Impending loan maturities 3. Reinstitution of property improvement plans (PIPs) 4. Private equity fund-life expirations Read the article here: https://lnkd.in/gs5vPtwW And a special thanks for their their sponsorship of the AFIRE Mid-Year Almanac to Cerberus Capital Management and Principal Asset Management. #hotels #hospitality #realestate #commercialrealestate

The presidential election has important implications for the commercial real estate sector—which is why AFIRE is so excited to host Jeffrey DeBoer, president & CEO of The Real Estate Roundtable, at our Annual Member Meeting, for a talk titled "Election Year Insights: Impact on Commercial Real Estate." Register for the Annual Member Meeting: https://lnkd.in/dADjFPQx #election #politics #realestate #commercialrealestate #CRE And a special thanks to our event sponsors: Affinius Capital, CBRE Investment Management, The Dermot Company, LP, Grosvenor, Holland Partner Group, REIT Funding, LLC, JLL, National Real Estate Advisors

AFIRE is excited to welcome the esteemed Prof. Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh of Columbia Business School as a speaker to our Annual Member Meeting in September, providing a "wellness check" on the state of US cities after COVID, and featuring important data for investors seeking macroeconomic data on the health of American metropolitan areas. To learn more about Prof. Van Nieuwerburgh: https://lnkd.in/dW6ybD9x Register for the annual member meeting at the AFIRE website. And a special thanks to our event sponsors: Affinius Capital, CBRE Investment Management, The Dermot Company, LP, Grosvenor, Holland Partner Group, REIT Funding, LLC, JLL, National Real Estate Advisors #realestate #commercialrealestate #CRE #urban #cities #macroeconomics