General Session: Emerging Trends in Real Estate® 2025

Tue Oct 29 1:00 PM — 2:00 PM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time Resorts World Las Vegas - Level 1, Resorts World Theatre

Type AIA LU AICP CM General Session Open to All Attendees

This year's Emerging Trends in Real Estate® 2025—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 2025 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. **Per venue guidelines, all persons, bags, and packages are subject to search before entering the Theatre. Weapons of any kind, outside food products, and large bags that can't fit under your seat are not allowed.**

Speakers

Moderator

Mr. Andrew Alperstein

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Andrew Alperstein serves as a partner in PwC’s Financial Markets & Real Estate Group. Andrew has more than 20 years of experience in transaction support, financial due diligence, forensic accounting, valuation and other consulting services related to all major property types. His clients include a wide range of buyers, sellers, owners, users, and financiers of real estate.

Andrew serves as the lead client partner for a number of PwC’s largest real estate…

Panelist

Mr. Michael Byrne

Chief Investment Officer and Head of Private Equity & Debt for North America AEW Capital Management, L.P.

Michael Byrne is AEW’s Chief Investment Officer and Head of Private Equity and Private Debt in North America. He has been with AEW since 2003. He is responsible for overseeing all of AEW’s commingled and separate accounts, and direct investments in North America. In this capacity he is responsible for the strategic direction and oversight of the firm’s portfolio management, acquisitions, capital markets and asset…

Panelist

Ms. Jodie McLean

Chief Executive Officer EDENS

Jodie W. McLean is Chief Executive Officer and Board Member of EDENS. With a tenure of more than 30 years, she has been a key player in EDENS’ growth and expansion to its current marketplace leadership, capitalized by blue chip investors with assets valued at $6.5 billion.

McLean is responsible for EDENS’ strategy to move the portfolio to major urban centers and first-ring…

Panelist

Mr. Hessam Nadji

President and Chief Executive Officer Marcus & Millichap

Hessam Nadji is President and Chief Executive Officer of Marcus & Millichap, a leading commercial real estate firm specializing in investment sales, financing, research and advisory services. He joined Marcus & Millichap in 1996 as Vice President of Research and Advisory Services and positioned the firm as a leading provider of market trends, analyses and expertise. Over the years, his role expanded to include marketing…

Panelist

Ms. Sara Queen

Head of RE Equity MetLife Investment Management

Sara Queen is head of equity strategies for MetLife Investment Management’s Real Estate group. Sara is responsible for leading MIM’s direct property investment platform, investing on behalf of MetLife’s general account and third-party institutional investors. Sara joined MIM in March 2021.

Previously, she was head of Mapletree’s North America business. Prior to Mapletree, Sara spent 11 years at Brookfield as head of asset management for…

Presenter

Mr. Chuck DiRocco

Director PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Chuck DiRocco is currently the Director of Real Estate Research at PwC and is based in Washington, DC, where his focus is on Emerging Trends in Real Estate covering the U.S., Europe, and Asia. In addition, he is an author and manager of various internal and external articles and data analyses on economics and commercial real estate. He also continues to be an industry speaker,…