Ferdinando Monte

May 17, 2024 | aei.org | Stan Veuger |Domonic A. Bearfield |Leah Brooks |Ferdinando Monte

IntroductionThis year’s State of the Capital Region report tackles an issue at the forefront of news coverage and resident concern: crime. We use a wide-angle lens to establish big picture facts about crime in the region over a long horizon. Where does it occur? How much? What resources do we use to fight it? To compare across the 24 regional jurisdictions, we focus on homicides in Chapter 1.

Oct 26, 2023 | urbanland.uli.org | Ferdinando Monte

Commercial real estate actors are three years into a transformative time for their businesses. The radical surge in remote work and higher interest rates to battle inflation have brought both challenges and opportunities. Many commercial real estate owners, regardless of their sector, are now wrestling to keep up with rising payments on adjustable-rate mortgages.

Apr 3, 2023 | urbanland.uli.org | Ferdinando Monte

In private-capital multifamily, sellers’ conditions were influential across markets; office experience varied widely across geographies. At least since 2020, macroeconomic factors have made it challenging to assess the values of different asset classes. The combination of post-pandemic recovery, tighter monetary policy, and the degree of work-from-home persistence have created an uncertain market environment where it is harder to identify solid market trends.