Event Coverage

Hear what thought leaders, presenters and experts have to say at one of the industry’s many conferences, panel discussions and awards ceremonies.

Events
Hundreds turn out as NAIOP New Jersey honors industry titans, contributors

NAIOP New Jersey welcomed a crowd of 300 for its annual President’s Awards and Hall of Fame Dinner, honoring eight commercial real estate industry leaders spanning multiple generations, in one of the association’s most popular events of the year.

Residential & Mixed Use
Multifamily owners, experts debate path forward as interest rate hikes loom (SLIDESHOW)

Interest rate concerns have permeated the commercial real estate landscape in New Jersey and beyond — including the stalwart multifamily sector, which has enjoyed years of rent growth, low vacancy and strong absorption driven by wholesale demographic shifts. Investors and developers are now wrestling with how to forge ahead with deals and projects despite the uncertainty, as they wait to learn how many more rate hikes are still to come.

Finance & Capital Markets
Investors take pause, reassess as interest rates shock commercial real estate market

The rapid rise in interest rates has caused a sudden slowdown and growing uncertainty in New Jersey’s investment sales market, leading buyers to reassess their plans in the near term, while placing newfound pressure on even the strongest asset classes.

Government & Public Policy
Fulop expects nimble approach to development in Jersey City, with major projects still to come

Jersey City is still in the earliest stages of its well-chronicled renaissance, the city’s mayor said Thursday, while projecting a nimble approach to development in the face of economic headwinds and a continued focus on lesser-known neighborhoods outside the downtown.

Residential & Mixed Use
NAIOP gala honors top real estate players and projects, as honorees tout chapter’s role

NAIOP New Jersey’s annual gala drew a registered crowd of more than 800, in an event that celebrated the state’s commercial real estate sector and the association that guides it.

Industrial
Top developers, owners see continued growth for industrial market, despite new headwinds

More than 200 attendees turned out April 26 for “The View from the Top: A Conversation with Leaders in Logistics Real Estate,” a conference hosted by Real Estate NJ at The Highlawn in West Orange. Speakers included (clockwise from top…

Events
The view from the top: A conversation with leaders in logistics real estate (SLIDESHOW)

Real Estate NJ was thrilled to welcome a sold-out crowd to our recent event — The View from the Top: A Conversation with Leaders in Logistics Real Estate — at The Highlawn in West Orange. More than 200 attendees turned out to hear from five top industry executives — Jeff Milanaik of Bridge Industrial, Fritz Wyler of Prologis, PJ Charlton of CenterPoint Properties, Britt Winterer of Link Logistics (a Blackstone company) and Rob Kossar of JLL — for a timely, wide-ranging discussion on the state of the industrial real estate market.

Editor’s Note
Profeta highlights parents’ legacy of education, as NJIT unveils new real estate center

The New Jersey Institute of Technology unveiled the new Paul Profeta Real Estate Technology, Design and Innovation Center, made possible by the largest-ever gift to the Newark-based university.

Government & Public Policy
NJ Transit seeks to ramp up role of real estate, development office, DOT chief says

State officials are seeking to “provide a stronger response” to developers looking to build around NJ Transit’s rail and bus stations, hoping to jumpstart a plan to monetize the agency’s vast but underutilized real estate portfolio.

Event Coverage
Panel: Environmental, social and governance goals play a growing role in CRE investing

Commercial real estate investors are increasingly focused on environmental, social and governance initiatives, or ESG, as they look to the future of their portfolios, partnerships and daily business operations.