In our latest roundup, lodging demand for World Cup brings growth, commercial property management firms use of AI becomes firmer, construction industry shows slow start to the year, and more!
- The hotel industry has reached an inflection point, where owners and developers are embracing artificial intelligence more, but are also increasingly in need of greater guidance on how to convert early adoption into long-term returns. (Jenna Graber, Hotel Dive)
- While the upcoming 2026 FIFA World Cup is expected to bring notable RevPAR gains to U.S. host cities, the overall domestic impact will be negligible. (Noor Adatia, Hotel Dive)
- Company leaders’ often vague predictions of how AI will be adopted are giving way to more fully formed strategies in the commercial real estate industry. (Joe Burns, Facilities Dive)
- Legislation to ban institutional investors from buying single-family homes to rent is making its way through Congress, but many of them are already selling thousands of homes. (Diana Olick, CNBC)
- Multiple, global trends—including capital flows, operating models, technology adoption, and asset allocation—have critical implications for participants across the real estate industry. (Aditya Sanghvi, Alex Wolkomir, Ben Dimson, Tripp Norton, and Vaibhav Gujral, McKinsey & Company)
- Several key construction indicators showed a slow start to building activity to kick off the new year. (Sebastian Obando, Construction Dive)