Capital Markets
Emerging Trends in Real Estate®
is a trends and forecast publication—including U.S., Europe, and Asia Pacific editions—that is one of the most highly regarded and widely read forecast reports in the real estate industry. Emerging Trends in Real Estate®, undertaken jointly by the Urban Land Institute and PricewaterhouseCoopers, provides an outlook on real estate investment and development trends, real estate finance and capital markets, property sectors, metropolitan areas, and other real estate issues.
Too Big To Fail? An Outline of Global Government Interventions
Released on March 10, 2010, Too Big To Fail, a new report from ULI Europe, assesses different forms of government intervention implemented since the fall of 2008 in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, France, Spain, the United States and Japan, including the impact on the real estate in those markets.
The Urban Investment Opportunities of Global Events
Urban Development Scenario for the 2028 Olympics, Harbour of Amsterdam. The Urban Investment Network held a workshop, and in partnership with PropertyEU, a masterclass in Amsterdam on June 9th 2010 to review how far the hosting of international events can be a spur for urban investment and the development of urban property and infrastructure markets. The intention of the event was to better understand under what conditions international events can be a stimulus or a catalyst for public and private investment in cities, and whether such events are relevant as tools in the current moment as a means to attract investment into Europe’s cities.
Exploring the Future of Housing Investment in the United Kingdom
The June 2010 Housing Finance Forum was a joint initiative organised by the Urban Land Institute in partnership with the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA). The purpose was to bring together key stakeholders within the UK housing industry to consider the issues the market faces and to suggest possible ways to solve the overarching problem of a lack of housing delivery.
Leveraging Public Land to Attract Urban Investment
This report presents the conclusions of an Urban Land Institute workshop that explored the role of public land and public land holdings as a means to
attract urban investment and to provide a means to stimulate development at a time when investment capital is scarce.
Value Capture Finance: Making Urban Development Pay Its Way
Examples throughout history and from across the globe have shown the power of Value Capture Finance (VCF) as a tool to drive sustainable urban development. As early as the Middle Ages, Local Authorities in England created special, occasional taxes for coastal populations to pay for sea defences, and, as far away as Bogotá, ‘Betterment Levies’ have been used to finance infrastructure development.
Launch Report - Closing the Investment Gap in Europe's Cities
In this report we assert that European cities are critical to the success of Europe socially, economically and environmentally, and that this success can only be realised if we invest directly in cities, and increase the rate of investment in Europe’s cities over time. However, an investment gap in Europe’s cities is identified in multiple forms and this must be bridged if Europe’s cities are to succeed in our new globalised system. Europe’s cities are amongst the oldest in the world and they require continuous reinvestment and modernisation if they are to keep pace with younger cities in other continents.
Some Light at the End of the Tunnel Seen by Leading Real Estate Investors Signs Point to a Better 2010, Industry Experts Say. In spite of the pervasive feeling that commercial real estate is in dire straits today, there may indeed be some light at the end of the tunnel, according to survey data from top executives in the real estate capital markets gathered during the ULI McCoy Symposium on Real Estate Finance, held on December 14, 2009, in New York. While job growth remains dismal and real estate fundamentals are bad and getting worse, ULI have seen recent signs of an economic rebound, and the real estate capital markets have loosened up in recent months.
Listen to an interview: Buzz McCoy Looks Ahead at Real Estate Finance.