During the 2022 ULI Housing Opportunity Conference, a panel discussion on “Getting Residential to Net Zero” began with real estate professionals sharing profiles of net zero projects, followed by a passionate discussion on the urgency to get real estate to net zero.

ULI MEMBER–ONLY CONTENT:In the past year, while investors have been eager to pour capital into the burgeoning build-to-rent (BRT) single-family residence market, in many cases they are finding plenty of roadblocks to profit, said panelists at the 2021 ULI Fall Meeting. Development sites are harder to find, the price of new construction has soared, and builders are finding they can make more money selling homes to buyers.

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.

The multifamily sector is successfully weathering the pandemic and construction continues to boom, leading the commercial real estate industry’s overall recovery. But development doesn’t appear even across multifamily market segments.

A Utah developer includes townhouses to densify one block in the downtown of a new community southwest of Salt Lake City.

Located in Santa Ana, California, La Placita Cinco is an innovative $31.4 million mixed-use project and a great example of how developers can revitalize aging retail.

Developers build single-story, single-family detached housing units in multifamily communities to rent at premiums over multistory projects.

As attention turns to what real estate markets may be like once the COVID-19 pandemic has wound down, the outlook for office properties is particularly hazy. More than a year of home-based work left office spaces idle, and it remains unknown how many people will resume their daily commutes once health conditions and local regulations permit.

Demonstrating the connections among health, social equity, and living environments, ULI Arizona is offering solutions to boost housing affordability.

The segregation of urban neighborhoods across the United States since the Great Depression was largely created by policies and practices established and enforced by local and federal authorities, Richard Rothstein, author of the bestselling book The Color of Law, said during a group discussion with ULI members at the 2020 ULI Building Healthy Places Forum.