Girls hockey is so popular in the U.S. today that Hollywood has jumped on the bandwagon: The sport was a focal point of the 2024 Pixar hit Inside Out 2, a $1.7B box office smash that became the highest-grossing animated film of all time, scoring an Oscar nomination for best animated feature to boot. Yet the sport’s longest legacy might not be on the silver screen, but on surging ice rink real estate — if capital can keep up. Bisnow/created with assistance by Microsoft's Copilot Interest in...

On its face, quantum computing sounds like a made-up concept, straight out of a sci-fi flick. But far from just a futuristic buzzword, the emerging tech has the potential to upend the way commercial real estate does business. Complex problems that would be impossible to figure out or take a traditional computer years to do, like optimizing portfolios worth billions or accurately predicting future tenant behavior, might be solved in a matter of minutes. “You can’t even really comprehend the...

In a transaction environment that has largely crawled on its hands and knees over the past two years, dealmakers pushing sales across the finish line are still getting increasingly crafty about how to finance them. Enter an old tactic that is newly back in vogue. Seller financing is on a steep rise despite recent interest rate cuts. The creative financing mechanism, which allows property owners to function as lenders, can help buyers acquire properties at below-market interest rates and...

As Chicago hurtles toward its date with the Democratic National Convention in mid-August, commercial real estate hopes the spotlight moment will begin shifting a negative narrative that has been blamed for keeping investment dollars away for years. Wikimedia Commons/Kelly DeLay Much of the bad press surrounding Chicago focuses on an influx of immigrants into the city and perceived issues of crime. Surveys in both 2022 and 2023 document that the CRE community believes perceptions of the city...