Four real estate industry leaders have joined the ULI Asia Pacific Executive Committee, which oversees the Institute’s activities across the region, and helps further the Institute’s mission and provide valuable leadership in accomplishing the ULI priorities. We welcome Stuart Mercier, Leonie Wilkinson, Shuji Tomikawa, and Benjamin Cha.

At a global level, 28 real estate industry luminaries have been added to the roster of ULI’s global governing trustees, including seven from the Asia Pacific region. Read the announcement.

Catch up on the latest news from around ULI Asia Pacific with the July 2022 issue of the newsletter. It welcomes our new Executive Committee members and global governing trustees in the Asia Pacific region, announces the winners for the ULI Asia Pacific Awards of Excellence, includes key highlights of the 2022 ULI Asia Pacific Summit, features a recent article: “Systems Thinking for a More Liveable Future for Singapore”, and contains a case study: One Museum Place. The newsletter also includes the latest news from our local councils, corporate partners library, and upcoming events.

Read the newsletter here.

Completed in February 2018, One Museum Place is a successful transit-oriented development involving significant remodelling, with the highest building specifications, operation, sustainability, and customer service standards. By the end of 2021, 98 percent of the office tower and over 80 percent of the retail pavilion are leased. One Museum Place is a showcase of thoughtful architecture and landscape design, use of innovative design and construction technologies, and collaboration between the developer and its consultants. Find out more.

Thirteen outstanding real estate development projects have been named the winners of the 2022 ULI Asia Pacific Awards for Excellence, one of the real estate industry’s most prestigious honours. This year’s winners include five projects in Australia, four in China, and one each in Malaysia, Maldives, the Philippines, and Singapore, respectively. Find out more about the winning projects and read the summary here.

This semiannual survey focuses on the key economic and real estate indicators for six cities in the region – Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Shanghai, Sydney, and Seoul. It captures the outlook for the industry between 2022 and 2024. Learn more about how Japan and Australia are expected to enjoy an upbeat economic position in 2022 with faster growth rates compared with those in Hong Kong, China, Singapore, and South Korea. Watch the webinar and read the overview.

Coming into her new role with a huge appetite for decarbonisation and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) priorities in the real estate community across our region, Jenny Zhang has been appointed the ESG and decarbonisation director – Asia Pacific. Zhang will be responsible for leading ESG concerns in the Asia Pacific region and will be integral to ULI’s efforts to deliver on its global mission priority to decarbonise the real estate sector, accelerate the path to net zero, and increase building value across the built environment. By customising global research, tools, and training programs for the Asia Pacific audience and developing programming on ESG topics for major ULI regional conferences, Zhang will help advance the Institute’s net zero carbon initiative and thought leadership in the Asia Pacific region.

Find out more.