When it comes to real estate, what is new is so often seen as better. But, when it comes to the future of our planet, that is not completely the case. The bias towards new buildings — even when they are highly sustainable — can mean opportunities for the repurposing and reuse of existing buildings are overlooked. But we will not be able to reach net zero without decarbonising existing buildings in addition to building new, sustainable ones

The past year was a challenging investment environment, as higher interest rates and concerns about property valuations led many investors to pull back on activity until they could better understand the market dynamics. But real estate continues to have a key role to play in investors’ portfolios, offering diversification, current income and attractive risk-adjusted returns, as well as serving as an inflation hedge

During the past several years, as more and more of you have adopted these indices to help benchmark the performance of your portfolios, IREI Inc. has formed strategic alliances with IDR (which runs a series of funds tracking the NFI-ODCE index), Nareit and EPRA to produce webinars to update our constituents on their respective quarterly performance numbers as well as the forces underlying and shaping those performance numbers

The European commercial real estate market has presented a varied picture in recent years, impacted by ongoing geopolitical uncertainties, economic factors and market forces. Looking ahead, as inflation moves away from its peak and interest rates show signs of stabilising, CBRE expects European investment volumes in 2024 to be 10 percent higher than they were in 2023

In 2023, global real estate investment volumes were among the lowest since the global financial crisis, according to Colliers’ March 2024 Global Capital Flows report. Overall, volumes were at 75 percent of the 10-year average, with varying results across regions

Demand for office space in Germany’s top seven cities will drop by 12 percent by 2030, according to a new study from Colliers and the ifo Institute. After surveying some 9,000 companies in Germany and using office letting data from between 2013 and 2023, the advisory firm and economic think tank have suggested that the reduction in office demand could amount to 11.5 million square metres (124 million square feet) of spare space

Widespread labour shortages have emerged within the construction and engineering industries in Europe that threaten to stunt growth in key growing real estate sectors such as data centres and life sciences

The widespread use of artificial intelligence (AI) could reduce global real estate’s greenhouse gas emissions by between 5.81 gigatonnes to 6.46 gigatonnes on an annual basis — the equivalent of the entire 2022 global carbon footprint of the United States

Europe’s cities are in the midst of a housing crisis. With growing levels of unmet housing demand, there is a pressing need for a multidecade policy response to expand new supply. A new paper from INREV — The Housing Middle Income Europe Report — outlines how supply gaps have been identified across the full spectrum of housing tenure segments in Europe. These include the private rented sector (PRS), public and third sector not-for-profit (NFP) subsidised housing, and owner-occupied properties.