Longer-form thinking on where the market goes.
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UAE commercial real estate occupiers are gaining greater negotiating power and flexibility in lease terms as workplace strategies evolve and businesses prioritize value.
Retail real estate has always depended on a mix of data and instinct. Today, AI is balancing the scales, making psychographic and persona data more available and actionable, while human observation remains essential for reading emotion, context, and intent in the moment. For retailers, it’s not a question of…
State-level economic resilience is increasingly shaping corporate location decisions, the direction of capital flows, and long-term CRE performance. CNBC’s latest rankings highlight where growth, liquidity, and housing dynamics are most likely to support sustained institutional demand and where structural risks…
America’s retail delivery networks are welcoming a new fleet of autonomous drones. Imagine cooking dinner and realizing you’re missing a key ingredient. A drone-enabled retailer could deliver it to your doorstep in just fifteen minutes. It may sound like a scenario from a science-fiction story, but it’s quickly…
For much of the past two years, loan extensions and maturity modifications have limited forced sales across commercial real estate by deferring pricing decisions amid volatile rates and uneven fundamentals. However, this strategy is increasingly reaching its limits as higher for longer borrowing costs and slower…
Hospital design is no longer just about building bigger campuses. The way care is delivered is changing, as outpatient growth is outpacing inpatient care, and health systems are moving beyond the traditional hospital footprint into medical outpatient buildings, ambulatory centers, and even retail spaces. From a…
Women in commercial real estate are rewriting the rules for leasing and ownership — both in-market and in place. As landlords, brands, and investors race to reinvent physical space for an omnichannel, experience-led era, a rising cohort of women in CRE is driving change across the industry. We now represent roughly…
Multifamily real estate is often viewed as a single asset class, yet the way an investor chooses to access it can produce very different outcomes. Two investors may own exposure to similar apartment properties and experience materially different results based entirely on structure. Control, tax efficiency,…
Escalating U.S. and Israeli military action involving Iran has injected a fresh wave of volatility into global markets, with the most immediate impact seen in a sharp surge in oil prices. Oil markets have reacted forcefully, with crude prices jumping more than 35% in a single week and moving above $90 per…
For U.S.-based occupiers and investors, Canada remains a critical extension of the North American supply chain. From port expansion in Vancouver to renewed big box momentum in Toronto, regional shifts north of the border are influencing strategy, capital deployment, and long-term logistics planning. In this Q&A…
A joint research paper examining Australia's retirement housing shortfall and the projected demand drivers from the over-50s demographic.
Everyone Talks About Megaprojects. The Real Story Is the Second Plant. When a manufacturer announces a $1 billion campus and 1,200 new jobs, the response is immediate: economic development teams mobilize, governors hold press conferences, and consultants engage early in the process. Yet a far more common scenario…
Housing market conditions are gradually moving away from the extreme tightness that defined the post-pandemic period. Although most estimates still indicate that the U.S. is structurally underbuilt by several million housing units, recent housing stock growth has outpaced population growth, lifting vacancy rates…
The Federal Reserve’s first meeting under Chair Kevin Warsh marks a shift in how monetary policy is communicated. By shortening statements and removing forward guidance, the Fed is emphasizing flexibility over a pre-signaled path, leaving markets to infer policy direction from data and dispersed Fed commentary. The…
Toys and collectibles are injecting serious life into American retail, fueling demand from Gen X to anxiety-fueled Gen Z. The best collectible brands have borrowed a page from the luxury playbook: manufacturing desire through scarcity. Limited drops, short windows, and low production runs turn an ordinary gadget or…
Education real estate has become increasingly complex, shaped by shifting enrollment, funding constraints, changing demographics, and growing scrutiny of traditional education models. In this Q&A, Todd Noel, Vice Chair, sits down with Anjee Solanki, National Director of Retail and Practice Groups | U.S., to discuss…
For years, low-cost capital made it easier to build, acquire, and expand across healthcare real estate. That environment has shifted. In today’s higher-rate environment, commercial real estate is still working through a pricing reset, with research noting that cap rates may face further upward pressure if interest…
The 2026 Colliers Logistics & Transportation (L&T) Supply Chain Conference brought industry leaders from across North America together in Huntington Beach, CA. The energy and sentiment of the conference-goers proved to be in sync with the breezy California beach conditions. After a stretch defined by rapid…
The ICSC Las Vegas 2026 convention brought together more than 25,000 retail and commercial real estate professionals for three days of deal-making, networking, and forward-looking conversations shaping the future of the industry. This year’s event placed a strong emphasis on innovation, leadership, and…
As is the case in many industries, AI is now part of the everyday reality in healthcare, and its impact is showing up in a place that is often overlooked: the physical footprint of care. For years, the conversation has focused on the shift from inpatient to outpatient services. That trend is still in motion,…
The 2026 BOMA International Medical Real Estate Conference was held in San Diego, CA, from April 29 to May 1. It highlighted a sector at a pivotal inflection point, where technology, care delivery transformation, and operational discipline are converging to reshape medical real estate strategy. Speakers emphasized…
The data center sector has entered a new capital markets regime. What was once underwritten primarily as real estate is now increasingly treated as critical infrastructure, driven by accelerating AI workloads and hyperscale expansion. Gartner projects that total electricity consumption by data centers will rise…
Effective real estate decisions begin with providing sufficient time to determine the need and review options. Those tenants that start evaluating the market early are better positioned to align space with business priorities, control costs, and avoid operational disruption. A practical baseline is to begin no…
Navigating the New Standard: Incentives Are No Longer Automatic For years, economic incentives for data centers and large-scale industrial projects followed a fairly predictable path. That’s no longer the case. The landscape has shifted, with states introducing stricter eligibility criteria, performance…
Recent data shows that more than 150 million Americans live in areas where mental health providers are scarce, underscoring a system-wide gap in access that continues to grow as demand accelerates. For commercial real estate owners, developers, and investors, it’s an opportunity to align capital with one of the…