Economists point to a weakening labor market, persistent inflation, and rising borrowing costs as key risks for commercial real estate—even as consumer spending and property demand remain resilient.
From Calgary and Salt Lake City to LA28, the Olympic and Paralympic Games expose a fundamental urban challenge: whether cities and regions can work as one when the pressure is on.
Explore how tuck-under parking, non-podium construction, and layout standardization help multifamily developers cut costs and make project numbers work.
As demand for data centers grows across the region, access to power, engineering requirements, and government policy are increasingly shaping where facilities can be built and how investors should assess their value.
Industry Voices
As market demands evolve, adaptive reuse is helping owners identify new uses for edifices whose original functions no longer align with how people live, work, and travel.
As seen in New Jersey, redevelopment and demolition remove obsolete office buildings from the market, while communities are rethinking how aging commercial properties can better serve changing economic and demographic realities.
Empty buildings don’t simply wait for redevelopment. They shape investment, street life, and neighborhood momentum in ways that tax policy and makeover economics rarely measure.
West transforms a long-isolated civic area into a residential, office, and retail district designed to restore pedestrian connections and support the city’s ongoing evolution at its core.
The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma illustrates how tribal nations are using casino revenue and long-range master planning to turn gaming success into lasting investments in housing, infrastructure, health care, and economic opportunity.
As electric vehicle adoption accelerates, general contractors explore how underused commercial properties can become the next generation of neighborhood infrastructure.
Housing
Five ways in which the legislation will shift the funding and regulatory landscape.
Climate risk is forcing owners, lenders, and insurers to rethink how resilient buildings are valued.
Eastrail Flats illustrates how strategic public-private partnerships, mixed-use development, and mobility investments can reinvent an aging suburban downtown.
Capital Markets
A roundtable co-convened by ULI, CREFC, and IBHS found that more consistent building and resilience inputs could help owners, lenders, and insurers better evaluate physical risk, strengthen underwriting, and support investment choices.
With price discovery still constrained, economists debate whether commercial real estate values are underestimating long-term risks, future cash flows, and the market’s next investment cycle.
From C-PACE financing to tax credits and private capital, resilience investments are helping to protect assets, improve business continuity, and preserve property value.