Architect Jeanne Gang has been named the recipient of the 2022 ULI Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development, the most prestigious and respected honour in the real estate, land use, and development community, and will be a featured speaker at the 2022 ULI Fall Meeting. The jury recognised Gang for her values-driven and innovative approach to social equity and environmental sustainability throughout a diverse portfolio of buildings, places, and research.

For more information about the ULI Prize, please visit uli.org/visionaries.

Proptech has become the main driving force for the latest real estate industry revolution and enterprise transformation. ULI and EY have co-developed the “GBA prop-tech white paper” around the theme of technology innovation and digital transformation of the real estate industry in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area (GBA).

Key findings are now available on ULI’s Knowledge Finder. Read more.

Establishing a shared understanding of climate risks and opportunities is a foundational step to ensuring investment performance now and into the future. This new report from the ULI Urban Resilience program provides insight to the global real estate industry on how to interpret climate-risk analytics, identify risks effectively, and incorporate them in decision-making throughout the investment life cycle.

Read the full report on ULI’s Knowledge Finder.

Catch up on the latest news from around ULI Asia Pacific with the September 2022 issue of the newsletter. It covers our new centre for housing and the launch of home attainability index, key highlights from the ULI Asia Pacific Summit, details about our recent report stating that climate risk threatening the Greater Bay Area, and more. The newsletter also includes the latest news from our local councils, ULI in the news, corporate partners library, and upcoming events.

Read the newsletter here.

China’s Greater Bay Area has the most concentrated real estate value in the world. It is also one of the world regions most vulnerable to climate change. A new report from ULI and HSBC, Mitigating Climate Risk Impact to Real Estate in the Greater Bay Area, analyses whether climate risk is being incorporated into real estate transactions and proposes recommendations for what can be done to further address it.

Read the full report on ULI’s Knowledge Finder and read the overview here.

ULI Asia Pacific has launched a new centre to develop and deliver insights and solutions for housing supply and affordability. To commemorate this opening, the centre launched the inaugural edition of the attainability index, a data-rich resource for understanding the extent to which a housing market is providing a range of choices attainable to the workforce across some key cities in the region.

Find out more about the Centre and read the press release here.