Clifton Rodgers

Feb 15, 2024 | urbanland.uli.org | Beth Mattson-Teig |Clifton Rodgers

Higher interest rates and slower economic growth is a common theme that extends to the Canadian market. Real estate development, investment, and transaction activity are expected to remain soft intos 2024. “We’re starting to see cracks that we didn’t see before,” says one interviewee, citing the challenges faced by people feeling the biggest impacts.

Feb 14, 2024 | urbanland.uli.org | Mark Cooper |Beth Mattson-Teig |Clifton Rodgers

The development of senior housing in Hong Kong requires high-level government support and cooperation between the private and public sectors to encourage much-needed new facilities. ULI Asia Pacific and the Chinachem Group launched the Senior Housing: A Business Case for Investment in Hong Kong report at a seminar in Hong Kong’s Central Market on October 19, 2023. Speaking at the event, ULI APAC CEO Alan Beebe said housing attainability was one of the organization’s key mission priorities.

Jan 23, 2024 | urbanland.uli.org | Carisa C. Chappell |Carissa Chappell |Clifton Rodgers |Beth Mattson-Teig

The great divide that prevents Black developers from reaching their full potential is access to capital. They are often competing against generational wealth, expansive real estate development experience, and perception bias, making already-hard-to-secure capital even tougher.

Dec 18, 2023 | urbanland.uli.org | Clifton Rodgers

In meteorological parlance, a perfect storm is used to describe a severe one resulting from a rare combination of phenomena. Commercial real estate already faces many challenges because of an unprecedented rise in interest rates, tightening credit capacity, uncertainty in the office market, a $2.6 trillion wave of maturing debt over the next four years, and overall economic anxiety.