The ULI and PwC US today released Emerging Trends in Real Estate^® 2024, the annual industry-leading report unveiling critical data and trends in the real estate sector. The top markets to watch this year include Nashville and Phoenix. Retails rebound and AI adoption are driving optimism.

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Experts speak about near-term prospects for development, challenges, and opportunities of obtaining financing in the current economic climate, strategies for balancing the mix of uses, ways mixed-use developments can better support local businesses, and other related trends.

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Dan Parolek, an architect and urban designer and founder of Opticos Design, wrote a book on addressing the gap between single-family homes and large apartment complexes. Parolek recent spoke on a ULI webinar on housing solutions.

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An analysis of hundreds of cities indicates that trips to CBDs in large cities (say, ones above 1.5 million residents) have plateaued around 60 percent of their pre-pandemic levels; smaller towns (for example, ones with fewer than 150,000 residents), in contrast, have fully bounced back.

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Until recently, insurance was a straightforward part of commercial real estate transactions—an important component, but generally a simple check-the-box exercise with predictable annual increases aligned with inflation. In the past few years, things have changed drastically, with skyrocketing premiums that have jarring implications for underwriters and owners.

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Six impressive developments from around the world have been selected as winners of the 2023 ULI Global Awards for Excellence. This year’s winners include two from North America, two from Europe, and two from Asia Pacific.

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New towns and master-planned communities played a major role in the growth of the Los Angeles metropolitan area throughout the 20th century. With the invention of mass-produced housing in the 1940s—a factory in the field, as exemplified by Levittown in New York—Los Angeles developed rapidly after large ranches such as Palos Verdes and Bixby Ranch were master-planned for housing and neighborhood amenities.

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Social infrastructure, or the physical spaces communities use to gather and build relationships, are critical to building resilience to fires, storms, and other climate hazards, according to a recent report by the Urban Land Institute.

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Savills chairman and CEO demonstrates the interdependence of driving revenue and DEI

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