October 28 – 30, 2024
Resorts World Las Vegas
Las Vegas, NV, UNITED STATES
October 28 – 30, 2024
Resorts World Las Vegas
Las Vegas, NV, UNITED STATES
Sara Queen is head of equity strategies for MetLife Investment Management’s (MIM) Real Estate group. Sara is responsible for leading MIM’s $40 Billion direct property investment platform, investing on behalf of the MetLife general account as well as third-party institutional investors, including public and private pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and insurance companies.
Sara joined MIM in March 2021. Before joining MIM, she was with Mapletree Investments, a global real estate development, investment and capital management company headquartered in Singapore, where she was head of the company’s North America business. Prior to Mapletree, Sara spent 11 years at Brookfield Property Partners as head of asset management for the company’s U.S. office portfolio, in addition to overseeing strategic planning and management of their expanding closed end accounts business. Before Brookfield, she spent nine years at Clarion Partners in a variety of asset management and portfolio management roles. Sara began her asset management career at MetLife in 1991, before departing in 1996 to pursue her MBA. She has nearly 30 years of industry experience.
Sara recently served as the board chair for Solar One, an organization which provides education and resources that create more sustainable and resilient urban environments. She was also a member of the Vestry of Trinity Church Wall Street serving on the investment committee overseeing a $5 billion endowment. She is active in numerous real estate organizations and is currently a ULI Global Governing Trustee and Co-Chair of ULI’s 2024 Spring Convention. Sara was the 2017 WX (Women Executives in Real Estate) Woman of the Year.
Sara holds a BA in economics and history from Wellesley College. She also has an MBA from Harvard Business School. Sara is an adjunct professor at Columbia University where she has developed and currently teaches commercial leasing and asset management classes to graduate students as part of the Master of Science of Real Estate Development (MSRED) program.
Tuesday, October 31, 2023
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Los Angeles Convention Center, West Exhibit Hall B
This year’s Emerging Trends in Real Estate® 2024—ULI’s flagship publication—will be hot off the press and launched at the Fall Meeting. It spotlights overarching trends that will play out in 2024 and affect the real estate industry overtime. Shifts in markets across the United States and structural changes in property types are integral to the conversation. Come hear a summary presentation of the report and a lively, fast-paced discussion among industry leaders of the trends and related issues.