Peter Walker

Peter Walker is the publisher of Urban Land and ULI’s senior vice president, Communications, Member Insights and Engagement, based in London.

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The 19th ULI Europe Annual Conference will take place February 3 and 4, 2015, in Paris.
The latest performance report published by the ULI Greenprint Center for Building Performance demonstrates a year-over-year reduction of 1.9 percent in energy consumption and a decline of 4.6 percent in carbon emissions.
As China’s real estate market experiences a slowdown, investors are retreating to Tier 1 cities, according to the Urban Land Institute’s Mainland China Cities Survey 2014. Investors remained confident of the prospects for the Tier 1 cities of Shanghai, Shenzen, Beijing, and Guangzhou.
ULI has announced Rives Taylor, D. Jamie Rusin, Sean Slater, and Ryan Call as joint recipients of the 2014 ULI Apgar Urban Land Award.
According to Emerging Trends in Real Estate® Europe, competition for prime assets in Europe’s major real estate markets is leading investors to turn to recovering markets.
Tokyo is expected to be the strongest market in Asia for real estate investment next year, according to Emerging Trends in Real Estate® Asia Pacific 2014, a real estate forecast jointly published by ULI and PwC.
“Rethinking, Reinvention, and Recovery” has been announced as the theme for ULI Europe’s 18th Annual Conference, scheduled for February 4–5, 2014, in Paris.
According to ULI’s Emerging Trends: Americas, the real estate rebound will continue in the coming year, but investors will turn to secondary markets in search of higher yields.
In real estate development, complexity is a given, but it can take many forms. At the ULI Asia Pacific Summit in Shanghai in June, three leading developers from Asia and the United States, Vincent Lo, Thai-Ker Liu, and Larry Silverstein, discussed the impact of complexity on their own projects.
When applying the idea of recycling to old or underused buildings, it is not just a matter of reusing the structure or materials, but also of best use, said speakers at ULI Europe’s annual conference in Paris. “It’s about up-cycling our old buildings,” said Laura Muller, head of corporate social responsibility for Corio N.V., who led the discussion.
Roger Orf, partner and head of real estate in Europe for Apollo Management, has succeeded Scott Malkin of Value Retail as the new chairman of ULI Europe and will serve a two-year term.
Improving the quality of life—and cutting red tape—are cited as key to attracting “the smart money.”