Industry experts examine how a widening wealth gap is creating a two-tier demand structure, boosting luxury assets while introducing new fragilities for mass-market commercial real estate

As borrowers exhaust extension options, assets move toward refinancing, restructuring, or forced sale.

ULI Europe publishes new guide on asset-level collaboration to accelerate decarbonization of occupied buildings

Despite a perfect storm of housing shortages, climate risks, and stalled downtowns, urban design is emerging as a positive, coordinating force to meet these challenges, bridging policy, capital, and community to achieve a common goal. Gensler’s latest research highlights where cities are already adopting this new ethos—and what civic leaders need to do now.

Otemachi One, the largest mixed-use development in Tokyo’s Otemachi District, combines offices, shops, event venues, a luxury hotel, and expansive public green space at the threshold of Tokyo’s Imperial Palace. The development occupies a prime site that was previously home to three office buildings, including Mitsui & Co.’s former headquarters.

In Part 2 of a multipart interview, architect Ben Wood explains how risk-taking around outdoor public space, adaptive reuse, and developer support helped make Shanghai’s Xintiandi a financially and culturally successful urban redevelopment.

From Minnesota to New Orleans, the Institute’s Real Estate Diversity Initiative is building a more inclusive pipeline of developers through hands-on training, mentorship, and community-based partnerships.

From site surveying to maintenance, drones, robo-dogs, and other smart, mobile machines are beginning to change the way the world builds.

Urban Land magazine began in July 1941, as a typewritten “news bulletin” to ULI members “that will come to you from time to time to keep you informed of items which, we believe, will be of interest to you in connection with the Urban Land Institute program.”

As federal and state leaders renegotiate the Colorado River’s operating rules amid long-term water shortages, the outcomes could reshape development patterns, water policy, and real estate investment across the American West.

Developers are using sustainable transportation, transit-oriented development, and mobility amenities to increase real estate value, reduce parking demand, and strengthen long-term resilience.

Bridge the gap between vision and action with key insights on funding and policy for resilient stormwater infrastructure.

Amid a variety of forces—geopolitical, economic, and organizational—requiring a recalibration of terminology and workforce management approaches, the commercial real estate industry shows signs that it is continuing to invest in strategies to foster belonging and inclusion. This is one of the key findings from the recently released Global Real Estate Workforce Survey (Volume IV), which offers a timely overview of how firms are managing the ongoing challenges.

Redevelopment and one family’s fight reshaped a city.

U.S. House and Senate housing bills now moving toward reconciliation would reshape federal policies that affect housing supply, finance, zoning incentives, and development feasibility across markets.