2025 Specialty Interest Group Palooza!

The Annual SIG Palooza Event is for CRE Members ONLY. 

Register now for one of these interactive business forums, providing Counselors invaluable opportunities to collaborate, exchange information, offer perspective, and pose questions to CREs of similar specialty in an atmosphere of trust and cooperation. These one-hour sessions are held on Zoom; links for sessions will follow. Scroll for session details, including speakers and topics.

Please select the SIG Palooza! meetings you would like to attend from the below list:(Required)
If you are registering for more than one SIG meeting, please indicate which group the discussion topic or question is for.

 

📅  Schedule, Topics, and Speakers  💡

Monday, February 3 |1PM CT
Valuation
Topic: The Apartment Market: Transactions, Pricing, Geographic Preferences, and Buyers/Sellers Motivations
Guest Speaker: Tristan Freshly, AVP, Director of Market Intelligence | Investment Sales, Walker & Dunlop

Tuesday, February 4 | 11AM CT
Asset and Property Management
Topic: Insights from Occupants
Guest speakers: John DeBenedictis, Canadian Director, Facilities and Real Estate Services, Enterprise Real Estate | TD Bank Group and Christopher Kubala, Workplace Services Program Lead – Space Real Estate and Workplace Services, Google

Tuesday, February 4 | 1PM CT
SALT: State and Local Taxes

Wednesday, February 5 | 11AM CT
Institutional Investment

Wednesday, February 5 | 1PM CT
ESG
Topic: US vs European Regulation
Guest Speakers: Vlada Ilic, CRE, CEO, Sarufo, and Daniele Horton, CRE, Founder and President, Verdani Partners

Thursday, February 6 | 11AM CT
Infrastructure and Commercial Development Joint SIG
Topic: Trends in the Data Centers Industry: What’s Going on Nationally?
The demand of AI, capital raising trends, what is driving location decision-making, what are the key risks, and how are developers and asset managers rising to meet the evolving landscape for their tenants?
Guest Speakers: Tasha Harvey, Science, Industry, and Technology Business Lead, Arup and Drew Johnson, Senior Vice President of Development, Oppidan

Thursday, February 6 | 1PM CT
Leasing

Friday, February 7 | 11AM CT
Finance

Friday, February 7 | 1PM CT
Life Sciences
Topic: Emerging Life Science Hubs

Monday, February 10 | 2PM CT
Housing
Topic: Multifamily Data and Federal Housing Policy Updates and Discussion
Data and policy updates and discussion as Kim Betancourt, CRE, shares her Fannie Mae multifamily housing update and Brad Weinberg, CRE, offers current information on federal housing policy.
Speakers: Brad Weinberg, CRE, and Kim Betancourt, CRE

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