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This summer, the Urban Land Institute will host its first-ever national conference in Detroit, featuring an opening keynote address by Dan Gilbert, founder and chairman of Rock Ventures and Quicken Loans.
An excerpt from the new book by Robert A.M. Stern, David Fishman, and Jacob Tilove. Paradise Plannedis the definitive history of the development of the garden suburb, a phenomenon that originated in England in the late 18th century, was quickly adopted in the United States and northern Europe, and gradually proliferated throughout the world.
The Trepp survey for the week ended May 9 showed spreads unchanged and apparently unlikely to change without some type of financial or political event occurring. The implied ten-year commercial real estate mortgage rate remains at 4.00 percent for pristine, institutional properties.
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The Honorable C.Y. Leung, chief executive, Hong Kong S.A.R., and founding chairman of ULI Asia Pacific will be among the keynotes at the third annual ULI Asia Pacific Summit later this month. Titled “What’s Next? The Dynamics of the Future,” this year’s summit will take place May 20 to 22 at the Grand Hyatt in Hong Kong.
The Real Estate Roundtable released its Q2 2014 Sentiment Survey, measuring senior executives’ “confidence in the real estate environment.” Topline findings include improving fundamentals, mixed views on future asset values, and abundant equity and debt capital.
This book is a fascinating and entertaining account of a global industry that few people acknowledge and even fewer comprehend, and it is hard to imagine anyone with better qualifications than Adam Minter to explain how it works and assess where it is taking us.
The Trepp survey for the week ended April 25th showed rates basically unchanged during the past week. While competition is “fierce” but no one seems to “have gone stupid” yet.
One of ULI’s great strengths is the predictive nature of its work, helping members plan business strategies by identifying trends with stickiness—not just changes in design and development, but outside forces that will affect the built environment for decades to come.