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Mankato Area Housing Study Update – 5.16

Urban Land Institute – 36th Annual – Emerging Trends in Real Estate (2015)
The Urban Land Institute (www.uli.org) is a nonprofit education and research institute supported by its members. Its mission is to provide leadership in the responsible use of land and in sustaining and creating thriving communities worldwide. Now in its 36th year, Emerging Trends in Real Estate® is one of the most highly regarded annual industry outlooks for the real estate and land use industry. See Full Report

Key Points:

• The urbanization of America has given life to cities.
• Downtown transformations have combined the key ingredients of housing, retail, dining, and walk-to-work offices to generate urban cores, spurring investment and development and raising the quality of life for a roster of cities.
• The millennials are an even larger cohort than their parents – the baby-boom generation.
• Businesses are waking up to a realization that while we were worried about the “jobless recovery” it is not materializing.
• Competition is unrelenting, and the need to have a clear “brand identity” is important as firms seek to navigate in the swift stream of capital.
• As this major segment of the economy returns to textbook fundamentals, confidence in the residential sector should continue to rise.
• For apartments at the more moderate income level, 28 percent recommend selling while holding and acquisition are more attractive, with a combined 72 percent recommending these as opportunities in the year ahead.
• One of the more powerful trends for offices – the live/work/play theme – is not just hype, but statistically significant. The resurgence in downtown living is bolstering secondary office markets around the country.

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