Deborah L Myerson

Jul 15, 2024 | urbanland.uli.org | Sibley Fleming |Brett Widness |Colin Galloway |Deborah L Myerson

On Thursday, CREW DC, AAREP DC, and ULI Washington delivered the third and final program in a series intended to demystify valuations and provide practical insights on negotiating equity and debt. Held at the offices King & Spalding at 1700 Pennsylvania Avenue, Julia Stevenson, head of acquisitions at Langdon Park Capital, served as moderator.

Jul 12, 2024 | urbanland.uli.org | Beth Mattson-Teig |Colin Galloway |Deborah L Myerson

More than $1 trillion in loan maturities are looming over the commercial real estate market “like a hurricane” off the U.S. coast—an enormous threat that grows with each day that interest rates remain high. RXR CEO and Chairman Scott Rechler, in a recent ULI members-only webinar with ULI Foundation Chair Faron A. Hill, described the challenges and opportunities ahead as an epic, unavoidable storm. “That hurricane … eventually, it’s going to hit land,” Rechler warned.

Jul 1, 2024 | urbanland.uli.org | Colin Galloway |Marta Schantz |Deborah L Myerson

The final day of the 2024 ULI Asia Pacific summit in Tokyo featured a capital markets panel with leaders from both European and North American funds, who shared their insights into the region’s real estate markets—and how those markets stack up against their global counterparts. Taking a high-level perspective, the panel’s consensus was that liquidity overall remains tight, even as regional economic growth continues to give an edge to the Asia Pacific.

Jun 27, 2024 | urbanland.uli.org | Deborah L Myerson |Colin Galloway

Making infill development easier, adding a state role to local land-use controls, and connecting housing with transit were some of the top trends in housing policy that emerged on May 9 at the 2024 ULI/Charles H. Shaw Forum on Urban Community Issues. The forum topic, “State and Local Innovations to Expand Housing Opportunities,” reflected something that many communities around the United States are grappling with: dire housing shortages.

Jun 25, 2024 | urbanland.uli.org | Beth Mattson-Teig |Deborah L Myerson |Colin Galloway

The (CPI) was unchanged in May but increased 3.3 percent versus a year ago, with supercore inflation (excluding food, energy, and housing costs) decelerated to an annual growth rate of 3.4 percent, its slowest gain in three years. Meantime, the (PPI), which measures wholesale price inflation or the average change in prices that domestic producers receive for their goods and services, showed signs of cooling. The PPI declined 0.2 percent on a monthly basis and rose 2.2 percent annually.