Real estate executive Randall Lewis has donated $10 million to ULI, the largest single donation in the Institute’s 86-year history, to fund the organization’s efforts to make the built environment more sustainable.

Michael Spotts, a senior visiting research fellow at ULI’s Terwiliger Center for Housing and head of Neighborhood Fundamentals, recently appeared on the Talking Headways podcast. Spotts chats with us about takeaways from the Shaw Symposium on Urban Community Issues, the definition of infrastructure, and the importance of taking a systems approach to important interconnected topics like transportation, education, and health care.

ULI Cincinnati’s Real Estate Accelerator Lab (REAL) is a nine-month program beginning in September and ending in May of the following calendar year. Program participants are chosen to bring together a diverse class with a focus on leadership and those typically underrepresented in the real estate development industry.

A warm December fueled tornadoes and other storms to bring the total number of multi-billion dollar disasters to 20 for 2021, as reported by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the second-highest annual number since 1980.

Real estate industry experts anticipate a growing acceptance of, and scope of responsibility for, the race to net zero in 2022, according to ULI Global Sustainability Outlook 2022, a new report from the ULI Greenprint Center for Building Performance in collaboration with Ferguson Partners.

U.S. senior housing occupancy increased for the second consecutive quarter and rose to 81.0 percent in the fourth quarter of 2021, a 1.0 percentage point increase from the third quarter and a 2.3 percentage point increase from a pandemic-related low of 78.7 percent in the second quarter, according to data from 31 metropolitan markets covered by the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing and Care.

According to RCLCO’s survey data, home sales in the 50 top-selling U.S. master-planned communities grew by a modest 5 percent compared to 2020, with a 14 percent decrease in sales during the second half of the year compared to the first.

An area in the Old Oakland neighborhood in downtown Oakland, California, will be the study site for the 20th annual ULI Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition.

A broad range of stakeholders representing renter households and property owners agree that proactive efforts are necessary to protect the security of renters and allow property owners/managers to viably steward and operate their properties, according to a new ULI report. Stable Residents, Stable Propertiesconcludes that finding common ground among stakeholders in the rental market is critical to creating sound housing policy as the United States struggles to improve resident stability amid a nationwide housing shortage and the ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Dodge Momentum Index fell 4 percent in November to 171.7, down from the revised October reading of 178.1. In November, U.S. commercial planning fell 8 percent while institutional planning moved 5 percent higher.