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May 15, 2024 | 
urbanland.uli.org | August Williams-Eynon |Ron Nyren |Matt Norris
The single-family rental (SFR) sector has sparked its share of controversy, primarily over concerns that institutional investors are blocking access to homeownership. Given the United States’ ongoing housing crisis, understanding whether SFR expansion increases rents and home prices is important but also just one element of the sector’s work on environmental, social, and governance issues (ESG).
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May 13, 2024 | 
urbanland.uli.org | Ron Nyren |Matt Norris |Beth Mattson-Teig
Experts speak about the near-term prospects for converting office buildings into multifamily housing, best practices for evaluating conversion potential, innovative ways the public sector can support these projects, and other related trends. What are the near-term prospects for converting office buildings into multifamily housing?
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May 13, 2024 | 
tormentmag.com | Matt Norris
When the Late Nite Stars skater isn’t filming around NYC, he’s probably strapping into a snowboard. An interesting dynamic for most, so we caught up with Trung on the latest ThriftBoards team trip to hear how snowboarding has unexpectedly influenced his skateboarding. When the Late Nite Stars skater isn’t filming around NYC, he’s probably strapping into a snowboard.
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May 10, 2024 | 
urbanland.uli.org | Beth Mattson-Teig |Matt Norris
Seven leading industry associations have announced a new taskforce to develop a comprehensive carbon pricing strategy for the real estate sector that takes a value chain perspective and enables pricing to be incorporated into investment decision making and accelerate its adoption.
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May 9, 2024 | 
urbanland.uli.org | Hannah Miet |Matt Norris |Charles Schilke
The current hype around artificial intelligence (AI) has many in the real estate industry dreaming about harnessing it to assist with investment decisions. But there’s a giant stumbling block: too much bad data. AI models require voluminous data to be accurate, and commercial real estate data is not standardized or consistently high-integrity.
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May 9, 2024 | 
brightonandhovenews.org | Matt Norris
The Rotunda Theatre Bubble sits in the gardens of Regency Square, a somewhat tiring epitaph to Regency architecture set back a short hop from Brighton seafront. It’s a piece of land on which a windmill owned by a gentleman named Matthew Bourne once sat – a chance architectural nod to the dance element of the show which ran alongside the comedy sketches, monologues, stand up and drag in the Hill and Jones Comedy Show.
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May 3, 2024 | 
urbanland.uli.org | Matt Norris |Michele Lerner |Jack Skelley
A confluence of demographic changes, economic challenges, and shifting consumer preferences have resulted in changes to household composition and, as a result, housing demand. After declining in previous decades, multigenerational living has grown since the 1970s. According to the Pew Research Center, between 1971 and 2021, the number of people living in multigenerational households quadrupled, while the number of people in other living situations is less than double what it was.
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
urbanland.uli.org | Matt Norris |Marta Schantz |Beth Mattson-Teig
Investing in resilient buildings, infrastructure, and community amenities to address the many impacts of climate change—including sea level rise, heat waves, storm surge, and drought—is crucial in safeguarding the built environment and in promoting the health and economic vitality of our cities.
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
urbanland.uli.org | Sibley Fleming |Matt Norris
What does it take to secure debt in today’s challenging commercial real estate environment? It all boils down to experience, relationships, and a lot of creativity. That’s according to an expert panel speaking this morning at ULI’s spring meeting at the New York Hilton Midtown. The panel is the first in a series of three, which will include Raising Equity (10 a.m. Wednesday) and Borrowers’ xperiences—Recent Success Stories (10 a.m. Thursday).
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
urbanland.uli.org | Matt Norris |Marta Schantz |Beth Mattson-Teig
Federal funding opportunities through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) and Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) are supporting essential investments in green and resilient infrastructure, with the potential to create more livable communities while also supporting successful real estate developments through enhanced aesthetics, improved building user experiences, and operational efficiencies.
