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Some of the best minds in commercial real estate seemed a lot less worried at the 26th annual ULI/McCoy Symposium on Real Estate Finance, held in December in New York City. Participants’ top message: investors keep pouring their money into office towers, apartment buildings, and other real estate in the United States despite high prices, worries that the U.S. economy could fall into a recession, and the uncertainty that accompanies a presidential election year.

After more than 20 years in Paris, the ULI Europe Conference will rotate among other leading European cities. The first stop on this new journey will be Berlin, where top players in European real estate and beyond will gather for the conference on January 30 and 31. “Berlin is a leading example of urban and economic development, making it a perfect choice for our first conference outside of Paris,” says Lisette van Doorn, chief executive of ULI Europe.

Roy W. Sheargold, 88, of Sydney, Australia, a ULI governor and honorary member, died July 6. Sheargold, chairman of the Sheargold Group, a diversified property investment and development organization based in Brookvale, Sydney, was an active ULI member for more than 40 years. Read what Sheargold ranked as his favorite ULI memories, and what was his trademark gift to ULI members and staff.

UCLA’s Master of Real Estate Development program combines the resources of America’s top-ranked public university with hands-on learning from industry leaders in one of the world’s most dynamic real-estate markets and learning labs. The program delivers an innovative and practical real estate curriculum that combines academic and experiential learning to prepare students to create positive and meaningful impact from the minute they graduate.

An area along the eastern side of the Don River in Toronto has been selected as the study site for the 16th annual ULI Hines Student Competition.

ULI Baltimore provided expertise for the city of Annapolis’s Weather it Together Program to raise awareness of the threat of sea-level rise and urban flooding to historic properties.

ULI has long been known as a source of solid intelligence on demographic trends and their relationship to land use and development. The Institute also has a long history of supporting more compact, mixed-use development patterns that reduce the dependence on cars.

America’s 80-million-strong generation Y, the most tech-savvy generation yet, has not forsaken shopping in stores for online purchasing, says a new ULI report released at the Spring Meeting in San Diego.

Newly confident and deep-pocketed consumers are driving vacation-home sales to levels that have not been seen in a decade, said panelists at the ULI Fall Meeting. But prices have not yet reached previous peaks, and buyers are increasingly cautious and cost-conscious.

Yvonne Yeung, CEO of SDG Strategies, has served as the ULI Curtis Infrastructure Fellow in 2023. During her fellowship, Yeung created a conversation tool to help leaders form actionable strategies to build 15-Minute Communities.