The Counselors of Real Estate’s 2025 report lists 10 key issues, including AI, affordability and insurance costs, driving rapid changes in the real estate industry.
CHICAGO — From inflation and insurance costs to artificial intelligence and affordability, the real estate industry is navigating a rapidly shifting landscape. The Counselors of Real Estate’s newly released “Top Ten Issues Affecting Real Estate” report outlines how economic uncertainty, demographic changes and technology are converging — often in unpredictable ways — to reshape markets and challenge sellers, buyers and investors.
The report, available online, highlights pressing issues the organization identified as shaping the industry in 2025:
1. Global & U.S. elections
2. Cost of financing
3. Loan maturities & debt repricing
4. Geopolitics & regional wars
5. Insurance costs
6. Housing affordability & attainability
7. Artificial intelligence
8. Sustainability
9. Office vacancies, the tax base & the health of urban cores
10. Price expectations gap
“The rate of change in the industry is rapid and — with many of the issues interrelated — the common denominators are people, goods and money,” The Counselors of Real Estate said.
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