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ULI has been establishing dialogue between real estate professionals and climate risk data analytics firms that can help advance the interests of both parties. Enhanced collaboration and understanding between these two sides should continue to improve this evolving space, potentially improving both financial and climate-risk outcomes. As part of these efforts, ULI collaborated with First Street Foundation, a research and technology nonprofit with expertise in assessing physical climate risk at the property level in the United States.

Jonathan Greeley, New England economic development lead , for Amazon, admits he didn’t have it all figured out when he graduated from St. Anselm College. Greeley recently shared tips on what he’s learned with Young Leaders from ULI Boston/New England.

Real estate economists offered a less optimistic forecast of the near-term U.S. real estate and economic environment compared with six months ago, downgrading predictions for a wide range of economic, capital market, and real estate variables. Some of the biggest changes to forecasts included 2023 gross domestic product, job growth, and private real estate returns, according to the Fall 2022 ULI Real Estate Economic Forecast.

Developers and investors seeking capital to finance commercial real estate are facing a new reality in which capital is both more expensive and less available. Borrowers still have options, but those options depend on the credit quality and type of deal, as well as what that borrower is looking for in that loan.

Twenty-four exceptional real estate development projects have been shortlisted as finalists for the 2022 ULI Asia Pacific Awards for Excellence among the 62 projects submitted entries to the competition from across the region.

ULI announced that it will be expanding its Asia Pacific footprint to include Vietnam. To align with its ambitions to grow its presence and membership and establish a locally led council of industry experts, the Institute has formed a ULI Vietnam committee.

Grant and Elena Cardone, social media personalities and real estate crowdfunding gurus catering to small investors, were welcomed by the audience at the ULI’s Miami Symposium in April. After a standing ovation, they began their sit-down with Robert Given, chair, ULI Miami Symposium and executive vice-president at Cushman & Wakefield.

Members and staff from five ULI district councils—three in the United States and two in Canada—gathered during ULI’s Spring Meeting in San Diego. Over the next 18 months, these five ULI district councils, which make up the Institute’s District Council Partnerships for Health Equity group, will seek to further understand and acknowledge historical inequities and racial discrimination within the land use industry.