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In 2025, the country’s industrial market is experiencing a rebalancing in the wake of surging demand and record new supply that marked the early pandemic years. New opportunities in fast-growing markets are emerging, and demand drivers are shifting. New space demand will grow the most, especially for small-bay industrial assets, according to a Q3 2025 report from the business advisory and accounting firm Plante Moran.
The city of Sugar Land has always stood out amid the sprawling metropolis of Houston, Texas. Located just south of downtown Houston, Sugar Land was named for the large sugar factory that operated for more than a century before operations ended in the early 2000s.
U.S. tariffs have increased from around 3 percent to 24.8 percent on a trade-weighted rate—the highest in over a century—and would climb to 32.8 percent if all proposed levies were implemented. The Yale Budget Center conservatively estimates that tariffs will cause the personal consumption expenditures price index to rise 3 percent, cutting household purchasing power by $4,900 annually.
The exponential growth in data creation and a significant shift toward cloud computing in recent years have driven soaring demand for data centers. Although artificial intelligence (AI) is frequently cited as the primary driver of the surge in demand for these facilities and their construction, JLL’s latest North America Data Center Report reveals a more nuanced reality. The report provides a comprehensive overview of the current market, challenges that the sector faces, and forecasts for the future of the booming data center industry.
The historic Powell Avenue Steam Plant, located in downtown Birmingham, Alabama, represents an extraordinary opportunity to reimagine a piece of the city’s industrial heritage. Spanning a 3.09-acre (1.24 ha) site in the heart of Birmingham’s vibrant Parkside District, this historic property is poised to become a cornerstone of downtown’s continued revitalization.
Georgetown’s M.S. in Global Real Assets, a collaboration between a top-ranked business school and a premier center for global real estate, prepares you to address challenges at the intersection of real estate, infrastructure, and sustainability.
The Covid-19 pandemic led to a foundational shift in how and where people work. As the real estate industry has sought to better understand how the pandemic has affected cities as a whole, the concept of the “urban doom loop” has frequently been mentioned as one of the most negative effects of the global health crisis, particularly in the U.S.
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The U.S. multifamily market was on fire in 2021 and 2022, a time when rent growth hit record highs due to soaring demand. But the market has since come back down to Earth as fundamentals stabilized. Now, amid ongoing high interest rates, heightened deliveries of supply, and deceleration of job growth, many multifamily investors are exploring different strategies to diversify their portfolios, add revenue, take advantage of opportunities, and maintain a competitive edge.
Georgetown University’s one-year master’s program in Global Real Assets offers a finance-oriented degree that integrates real estate, infrastructure, and sustainability.
Here’s a stark reality: Despite having more information than at any point in history about humanity’s role in climate change and the importance of reducing our environmental impact, over the last decade, the U.S. building industry has steadily increased the amount of waste it produces. This is troubling, especially considering that the built environment contributes a quarter of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. In response, we, as a design community, bear the responsibility and have the opportunity to actively address climate change through design.
Explore the evolution of the Build-to-Rent (BTR) sector as it reaches new regions and offers diverse housing solutions. Discover insights, backed by Zonda’s proprietary census data, that reveal key BTR trends of affordability, flexibility, and more.
At a recent meeting in Baltimore about talent development, a CFO of a major real estate investment trust said, “I have plenty of folks with grit and smarts who can grind through any problem in real estate. What I am lacking is folks who can lead.” How can the industry develop those kinds of leaders?
Sponsored Post:There is an explosion of AI tech across all sectors. Marketing, tech, and equities trading have been using algorithms for a long time. AI is impacting these sectors already. Real estate has been famously resistant to technology. Could AI change that?
Scheduled to break ground next year, CMNTY Culture Campus will be a mixed-use music industry hub in the heart of Hollywood. The project is set to transform the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Highland Avenue with creative offices, recording studios, public event venues and retail spaces.
As office vacancies continue to grow, and with declining confidence in Class B & C buildings in multiple markets across North America, Gensler has been supporting over a dozen cities and over 100 different owners to determine what can be done to save their buildings and save our city cores.
As communities and cities across the country face mounting land use and environmental challenges, Hilco Redevelopment Partners (HRP) and Melissa Schrock, HRP’s executive vice president of mixed-use development, are working to ensure urban redevelopment is a force for positive change.
As part of HSBC’s Transition Pathways series, they asked over 300 real estate developers and investors globally about how they are reducing emissions, what is accelerating their decarbonisation, and where they are investing. Explore the findings.
Sponsored content: Airbnb has been working with multifamily owners for several years to unlock hosting for renters. As part of ongoing efforts to drive value for owners and make hosting more accessible to renters, Airbnb introduced the Airbnb-friendly marketplace in November 2022.
Sponsored Content:While most investors are building and investing in data science and analytics capabilities, few seem to have a good understanding of what their peers are doing in this space or where their own capabilities fall on the adoption curve.
Sponsored Post:Fairstead has launched Fairstead Ventures, a $100 million venture capital initiative, designed to invest in and deploy innovative startups focused on decarbonization, energy and water conservation, and sustainability.
Insurance coverage is traditionally real estate owners’ and lenders’ line of first defense against extreme climate events, but the increase in recording-setting floods, storms and wildfires in the past few decades is threatening the insurance industry, raising the cost and decreasing the availability of the financial safeguards they provide to real estate stakeholders.
Sponsored Content:After years in development, Sun West Mortgage Company, Inc, (SWMC) a national leader in mortgage origination and servicing has launched the newest iteration of their proprietary Artificial Intelligence platform Morgan™.
Sponsored Content:To ensure that the city-state’s tourism landscape continues to offer a constant pipeline of new, high-quality, and compelling attractions, Singapore is expanding its tourism offerings in the Jurong Lake District, the largest business district outside the central area.
Sponsored Content:Hilco Redevelopment Partners (HRP) has made a business out of transforming not just sites, but also local economies, communities, and environments. Take New Jersey, for example, where HRP is turning two retired power plants into state-of-the-art logistics parks, HRP Hudson and HRP Mercer.
Successful local industries fuel healthy office markets and, in recent years, technology has slipped into this fold more than any other industry. Higher occupancy and rent levels tend to concentrate in markets with skilled tech workers, so as tech thrives in a given market, the office sector follows suit.
As one of the fastest-growing cities in the United States, Fort Worth is busy improving its downtown density through several ongoing and planned strategic projects. And while the city has always been driven to develop and invest in the city center, stakeholders are now making a concerted effort to ensure that all parts of town will benefit.
Sponsored Content:Reimagining parking assets represent a massive opportunity for landlords to unlock net operating income and improve tenant experience.
Sponsored Content:Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, office lease terms have shortened as tenants sought more flexibility while altering their workforce structures and assessing their long-term office space needs. What do these shorter lease terms really mean? Will they last?
Sponsored Content:Of the five well-known construction types defined within the International Building Code, Type IV, commonly known as “heavy timber,” has been the least-used in the United States. New Type IV buildings have dwindled over time as large trees have become less available and more efficient construction systems have developed.