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Every year, Emerging Trends in Real Estate® Europe brings together the views of hundreds of industry leaders across the continent to identify the forces reshaping our markets, our cities, and the way we invest in them. We are pleased to announce that the 2027 edition, jointly published by ULI and PwC will be launched on Tuesday 10 November 2026 at a live webinar. Join us to hear the headline findings first and explore what they mean for your business, including: ▪️How investors and developers are recalibrating strategy for the year ahead ▪️Which sectors and cities are best positioned for growth ▪️How decarbonisation, resilience, and changing occupier demand are influencing decisions on the ground Our panel of speakers from across the industry will examine this year's findings and, importantly, share what they mean in practice. Emerging Trends in Real Estate® Europe 2027: Launch Webinar | Tuesday 10 November 2026 | 13:00-14:00 GMT | Online, free to attend This is one of the industry’s most regarded annual outlooks, and the launch webinar is consistently one of our most attended sessions. Secure your place today: https://lnkd.in/ej-fM-eK #ULIEurope #EmergingTrends #RealEstate

In three weeks, 14 closed-door conversations take place in Dublin. On 4 November, ULI’s European Product Councils will meet. Each one brings together senior professionals from the same sector, from logistics and data centres to affordable living and urban regeneration, to talk openly about what’s really happening in their markets. Each Council has just a handful of guest places. If there’s a conversation you want to be part of, apply now. On 5 November, the ULI C Change Summit opens the conversation to the wider industry. You’ll join investors, developers, owners and city leaders from across Europe to work through housing, climate risk and the financing behind both. Day one takes you deep into your sector. Day two puts you in the room with everyone else shaping its future. Apply for a Product Council guest place: email europe.events@uli.org or message Helena Brown Book your C Change Summit place: https://lnkd.in/e9R65SGX

ULI Europe’s new report and Excel tool are here: how can we better understand the difference housing makes to people’s lives? The homes we invest in, develop and manage shape affordability, wellbeing and community life. Measuring those outcomes gives us a stronger basis for deciding what to improve. Measuring Social Impact in the Residential Sector brings together European research, practical guidance and real-life case studies. The accompanying Excel tool provides a structured framework to help you measure social impact across the asset lifecycle. For investors, developers and housing operators, these resources offer a shared approach to understanding, delivering and demonstrating meaningful social impact. Download the report and Excel tool: https://lnkd.in/eyhPAjTK #SocialImpact #ResidentialHousing #AffordableHousing #ImpactMeasurement #HousingSector

How is sustainability influencing property value? Who pays to decarbonise an occupied building? And how do we deliver low-carbon homes that people can afford? These are some of the questions we’ll work through at the ULI C Change Summit in Dublin on 5 November. This year’s speakers bring perspectives from investment, housing, climate leadership and sport: • Sandrine Dixson-Declève, Honorary Chair of the Club of Rome, brings an international perspective on the climate challenges shaping our economy. • Eamon Ryan, Chair of the European Commission Housing Advisory Board, explores affordability and sustainability at scale. • Simon Durkin - CEO, ULI Europe • Richard Shakespeare - Chief Executive, Dublin City Council • Lara Young - Head of Sustainable Operations, Redevco • Christoph Mayr -Head of Sustainability Europe, PIMCO Prime Real Estate • Hilke Nijmeijer - Senior Portfolio Manager, CBRE Investment Management | CBRE Europe Residential Partners • Emma Fletcher - Low Carbon Homes Director, Octopus Energy • Niall Gaffney - CEO, IPUT • Enda Mc Guane MBS, FSCSI, FRICS - Director of Asset Management, The Land Development Agency • Andrea Carpenter - Co-Founder and Director, Diversity Talks Real Estate • Rishi Jain - Director of Impact, Liverpool FC Alongside keynote talks and panel discussions, you’ll choose two interactive workshops to explore the issues most relevant to your work: • Financing the decarbonisation of occupied buildings • The business case for decarbonising affordable housing • Transition risk • Physical risk and resilience • Priority opportunities for decarbonisation and resilience Bring your experience, exchange ideas with senior peers from across Europe and help inform the practical tools and guidance developed through ULI’s C Change programme. Whether you work in investment, development, asset management or sustainability, join the people making decisions about how real estate responds to these challenges. 📍 Dublin | Thursday 5 November 2026 Explore the programme and book your place: https://lnkd.in/dPKGXhTy #CChangeSummit #ULIEurope #RealEstate #Decarbonisation

The need for social infrastructure is urgent. Get it right, and it strengthens civic life, city quality and real estate value all at once. Carol Coletta, Strategic Advisor and Bloomberg Public Innovation Fellow, Coletta and Co., sees real strength already in place: "There is so much good social infrastructure in European cities. We just need more of it, and we need to be thinking on a bigger scale." Her challenge to the industry is direct: ULI members have an opportunity, a responsibility and a self-interest in promoting good social infrastructure. Europe's competitive future rests on more than economics and capital - they tell only part of the story. Places and public life tell the rest. See below why Carol thinks this belongs at the centre of the conversation.

Launching in two days: a practical, evidence-based approach to measuring social impact in residential real estate. Join ULI Europe on Wednesday, 14 October for the launch of Measuring Social Impact in the Residential Sector. The webinar will introduce the research behind the project, share lessons from European case studies and show how the new framework can help organisations understand what they are already doing, identify opportunities for improvement and track progress over time. Meet the panel: Laila De Bruyne, Impact Manager and Community Builder, Revive Melina Gorrebeeck, Partner, lammp Vincent Voute, ESG Project Manager, AMPERE Gestion Kate Joyce, Strategic Projects and Sustainability Lead, Land Development Agency Simon Chinn, VP Research & Advisory Services, ULI Europe Joey Udrea, Senior Manager, ESG Programmes, ULI Europe Developed with practitioners from across Europe, the Excel-based framework includes 39 indicators across five areas, with 13 core indicators providing a practical place to start. The report and framework will be available to download on the day. Register now to join the launch: https://lnkd.in/eWhsFPD7

Decarbonisation and energy efficiency are not the only priorities shaping real estate’s sustainability agenda. Affordable housing and physical risk are also top of mind. Across European real estate, two questions now demand urgent attention: 1. Housing people can afford. 2. How floods, storms and extreme heat are affecting the value and performance of buildings. Neither can wait for the market to recover. On 5 November in Dublin, the ULI C Change Summit puts both on the table. The day opens with Sandrine Dixson-Declève, Honorary President of the Club of Rome and one of Europe's leading voices on sustainability. Richard Shakespeare, Chief Executive of Dublin City Council, follows with the view from the host city. Our final keynote, Rishi Jain, Director of Impact at Liverpool FC, will take you outside real estate to show how one of the world's most recognised sports brands made sustainability part of how it works, on and off the pitch. Then it's over to you. You'll spend the day with You'll spend the day with real estate industry leaders working on practical answers. A few highlights: - Adaptive reuse: Europe has an estimated 30 million vacant or underused buildings. Help build a framework to turn more of them into affordable homes. - Affordable housing business models: new C Change for Housing research on turning avoided costs into investable value. - Physical risk: co-created with First Street and Tim Barlow, this workshop explores how heatwaves, floods and storms are already shaping building performance and investor pricing. Use real-world examples and practical tools to make your portfolio more resilient. - Transition risk and Preserve: find the point where future risks start to hit asset values and how to price them into your models. - Housing Europe's Future: a panel with Eamon Ryan of the European Commission Housing Advisory Board and Enda McGuane of the Land Development Agency. For eligible ULI members, Product Council sessions take place the day before, on 4 November. These are conversations the whole industry needs to be part of and we hope you'll be in the room. ULI members attend at a reduced rate. See the programme and register your place: https://lnkd.in/e527E6GV

Europe's cities need good housing, affordable housing, places to work, quality of life, transport and infrastructure to support it all. For Nick Searl, Strategic Advisor at Urban Partners, that's the baseline, not the ambition. The more difficult challenge is that "There is still a yawning gap between the city's understanding of what investors need to invest, and investors' understanding of what cities really want and need." Closing that gap is what turns ambition into delivery. There's reason for optimism too. New structures are being created now to bring finance and capital to long-term urban regeneration, exactly the kind of shift this gap needs. It's one of the defining delivery questions for Europe's future. Watch how Nick sees this playing out below.

One week until ULI Europe launches a new practical framework for measuring social impact in the residential sector. Join us on Wednesday 14 October as we explore how the residential sector can move toward a more consistent, evidence-based understanding of social impact and what this means for investors, developers, operators and communities. How it can help your organisation: ▪️Understand what meaningful social impact looks like ▪️Assess what it is already doing ▪️Identify gaps and opportunities for improvement ▪️Embed social impact into investment and operational decisions ▪️Track progress using structured evidence Developed with practitioners from across Europe, the framework brings together 39 indicators across five areas, with 13 core indicators providing a practical place to start. The launch webinar will introduce the research, share lessons from European case studies and show how the framework can be applied across the residential lifecycle. The report and Excel-based framework will be available to download on the day. Register for the webinar: https://lnkd.in/eGs5EbyM