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White papers
2024 Mid-Year Outlook - Walking Through the Threshold
Inflation is, of course, a global phenomenon, and similar decisions on interest rates are top of mind for policymakers, market watchers and investors around the world. (In fact, as of the finalization of this paper in early June, the European Central Bank (ECB) announced its first rate cut in nearly five years.)
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White papers
2023 Outlook Navigating the Labyrinth
As 2022 ends, it is increasingly clear that residential and commercial market conditions have changed in many countries around the world.
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Is Relief on the Horizon for Rising Construction Costs?
In the past year, construction teams around the world have been facing increased cost pressures with rising steel and lumber indices. Materials, commodities, labor and supervision, subcontractors, and opportunistic cost in general are escalating in many places.
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Hines Perspectives: Life Sciences - The Potential of Purpose-Built Properties
The COVID-19 pandemic put extraordinary pressure on life science companies as they raced through new trials and created vaccines to protect the public. The increasing demand for innovation and “near-instant” results also put pressure on the very properties where those scientists work. Life science offices, labs and facilities around the world needed to serve increased production demands and a broader purpose: global public health on a massive scale.
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Guided by the science - Indoor environments for a pandemic-resilient future
More than 18 months into the COVID-19 pandemic, the hope that we will eradicate the virus has faded. According to the scientific community, it is more likely that COVID-19 will become endemic, meaning we will learn to co-exist with this virus as we do with other respiratory viruses. This means living with a heightened sense of awareness.
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2022 Global Outlook - Targeting Winning Locations
Where one invests in commercial real estate is as important as what property type those investments are in and at what moment in the cycle those investments occur. Indeed, “location, location, location” is one of the oldest mantras in the industry. This is particularly true over long-term investment horizons that may span multiple cycles.
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White papers
A Historical Analysis of Inflation’s Impact on Real Estate
Temporary bouts of inflation have arisen throughout my 23-year career, prompting questions that result in hour long webinars and/or 20-page white papers on the matter as those bouts materialize. On the surface, concerns about inflation appear valid.
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Achieving “The Great Return” - Practical steps for office owners, operators and corporate occupiers
The large-scale and unexpected social experiment of enforced working-from-home (WFH) has done far more than accelerate the pre-COVID trend of flexible working. It has irreversibly altered the relationship between people, work and their place of business, ultimately shaking the foundations of the status headquarters.
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Living for the Future
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted routine and mobility. Suddenly the home became our world: those familiar four walls morphed into an all- encompassing space where we lived, worked, played, exercised, taught, created and socialized, when permitted.
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Research Report
Proprietary Research: Leaders and Losers in the Office Market
With existential questions on the demand for office space in a work-from-home world weighing on the office market, it is important to understand that not all office is created equally. In 2020, the U.S. office market posted annual absorption of -87.1 million SF according to CoStar, by far its worst year on record and more than double the losses experienced in 2009.
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Industrial Delivers: Logistics Steps into the Spotlight
When COVID-19 first appeared, comparisons were made with the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). Back in 2008, the industrial and logistics sector was hit hard and left with a plethora of new but empty warehouses that had been built on the whim of retailers.