The Counselors of Real Estate and its 1,000 credentialed real estate advisors identify the current and emerging issues expected to have the most significant impact on all sectors of real estate. Each year, the External Affairs Committee develops the Top Ten Issues Affecting Real Estate® through broad membership polling, discussion, and debate.
Now in its 11th year, The Counselors’ signature thought leadership initiative was announced July 13, 2022. Initially released exclusively to members of the National Association of Real Estate Editors, the Top Ten Issues Affecting Real Estate® generates more than 500 press and social media mentions each year and is an invaluable resource to clients of Counselors worldwide and to the real estate industry in general.
Review each year’s Top Ten Issues Affecting Real Estate® in the Top Ten Archive here.
Counselors are credentialed real estate problem solvers and have a unique pulse on the industry and the economic and market drivers which influence it—making compilations such as the Top Ten Issues all the more prescient. Among assignments large and small, Counselors have resolved the dispute between the developer of the World Trade Center and its insurers post-September 11, led the privatization of U.S. Army Housing, developed a multibillion-dollar, 10-year master plan for Philadelphia Public Schools, created and endowed the MIT Center for Real Estate, and valued both the Grand Canyon and Yale University.
Resource Competition Escalates, Highlighting Imperative for Sustainability Strategies to Look Beyond Energy Number Eight on our CRE hit parade of the “Top Ten Issues Defining the Future of the Real Estate Industry” in 2012 was sustainability. Much of the attention to sustainability in the real estate realm centers on energy efficiency and the efficient use […]
Capital Markets Further Unlocked in 2013 Right-10: CMBS property delinquencies remaining below 10%; Left-250: The 10-Year Treasury not rising above 2.5%; Right-150: Aggregate new office, industrial and retail new construction remaining below 150msf; Left-6: Average Cap rates for Class A commercial real estate assets in core MSAs not rising above 6% as interest rates rise in 2H2013 with […]
Philadelphia Pioneers New Infrastructure Investment Approach – a Case Study The inaugural Counselors External Affairs Alert (EAC Alert) identified infrastructure funding and the integration of sustainable practices as two of 10 critical issues society must address. Philadelphia’s ground breaking – or better, wave-making – storm water approach provides a creative example of how regions […]
An International Conference of The Counselors of Real Estate was recently held in Vienna, Austria from June 3rd to June 5th. We thought it appropriate that our first International Alert focus on a summary of key insights and observations that were forthcoming from that conference. The major take-away from the conference was an indisputable awareness […]
In this inaugural issue of the Counselors External Affairs Alert (EAC Alert) publication, we summarize a handful of the broader structural issues that will define the real estate industry in the next 10-30 years. (Many of the issues have strong interrelationships.) The issues below were collected at the Chicago Meeting of the External Affairs Committee. […]
The Counselors of Real Estate®, established in 1953, is an international group of high profile professionals including members of prominent real estate, financial, legal and accounting firms as well as leaders of government and academia who provide expert, objective advice on complex real property situations and land-related matters. Membership is selective, extended by invitation only. The organization’s CRE® (Counselor of Real Estate) credential is granted to all members in recognition of superior problem solving ability in various areas of real estate counseling. For more information, contact The Counselors of Real Estate