Features

How American Cities Can Benefit from “Land Value Capture” Instruments in the Time of COVID-19 and Beyond

Why Now? The financial pressure cities are experiencing due to COVID-19 only amplifies the pre-existing historical underinvestment in municipal infrastructure and adds urgency to cities’ search for new sources of funding. Indeed, underinvestment in building new municipal infrastructure and replacing aging structures, along with chronic deferred maintenance, is an age-old story in many countries –… Read more

Perspectives

Mind the Gaps

The two issues brought forward by this column may not sound much like urgent real estate issues, but they are and if the industry does not mind them, it may miss out on important implications. The two issues are the state of municipal finances coming out of COVID-19 and the urgent need for municipalities to… Read more

The New Norm: ESG as a Material Risk and Opportunity for Real Estate

ESG was listed as the #10 issue in the 2020-21 Top Ten Issues Affecting Real Estate® by The Counselors of Real Estate®. Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) is no longer an emerging trend, but a critical component of real estate investment integrated into investment decision-making. COVID-19 has further cemented this new “norm” as risk management,… Read more

Perspectives

Viewing Infrastructure Through a Different Lens

Infrastructure was listed as the #9 issue in the 2020-21 Top Ten Issues Affecting Real Estate® by The Counselors of Real Estate®. Infrastructure, the vital basic physical and social systems that support the subsistence and growth of global economies and populations, once again rears its head as a principal and critical issue impacting real estate… Read more

Perspectives

Technology and Workflow in the Real Estate Space

Technology & Workflow was listed as the #8 issue in the 2020-21 Top Ten Issues Affecting Real Estate® by The Counselors of Real Estate®. In a post-COVID world (and a pre-future pandemic world) the combination of migration back to the office, need for reconfiguration and change in operating methods, and the general desire for working… Read more

Perspectives

Space Utilization and the Built Environment

Space Utilization was listed as the #7 issue in the 2020-21 Top Ten Issues Affecting Real Estate® by The Counselors of Real Estate®. Many new ideas, solutions, and procedures have been born through the COVID-19 pandemic and will remain a part of our lives even after the pandemic subsides. For that reason, this period will create significant short and medium-term opportunities to monetize, a phoenix rising from the ashes of failed retail,... Read More