IREI has been conducting an Annual Investor Survey for 29 years. We collect the responses from Thanksgiving to VIP Americas in late January. The last few years, we’ve received between 150 and 200 responses, giving a good representation on investor sentiment going into the new year. This is the first year that IREI hosted a series of in-person roundtables in various cities to discuss and strategize on the results. We hosted these throughout the month of March in Chicago, Boston, New York and Dallas.
During these three-hour meetings, I was able to take notes to track key themes from each group. We kicked off this series of roundtables in Chicago, where a request was made early on to take notes on which city had the best group. Instead of ranking each city using an unscientific process where I’d undoubtedly be swayed by who said the nicest things to me, instead I decided to label each group based on how they conducted themselves.
Chicago – most competitive
