Feb 7, 2024: While DEI initiatives are more important for real estate firms today than just one year ago, DEI is facing a deprioritization with data showing firms ability to retain women and people of color in the US at the executive management, mid-level and junior level is slipping. Download the presentation from the Global RE DEI Survey virtual Q&A now.

Oct. 10, 2022: Each year, NAREIM awards fellowships to five outstanding graduate students in real estate programs across the United States.

July 22, 2022: Almost two-thirds of real estate investment management firms are planning to increase base salaries by between 2% and 6% - one third saying they were planning increases only up to 4%. NAREIM Member Survey results available for download.

Jan 21, 2022: Four of the top five goals of DEI policies within CRE organizations relate to defined hiring and promotion targets for underrepresented groups.

The 2021 NAREIM Resume Book has launched: 408 pages, 395 resumes, 11 US schools in one book.

Download the Talent Management meeting presentations covering return to office realities, vaccine mandates, and total compensation trends post-Covid.

The NAREIM Fellows Class of 2021-22 has been named - with five chosen from a field of 68 candidates from 11 graduate programs. All 68 resumes are now online.

At the 2023 NAREIM Talent Management meeting, NAREIM produced a list of professional development resources crowdsourced by member firms and their lead HR & DEI professionals.

Oct. 10, 2022: Each year, NAREIM awards fellowships to five outstanding graduate students in real estate programs across the United States.

March 4, 2022: Increasing employee engagement through stretch assignments, office mobility and increased feedback and 1:1 conversations with managers is key to retention in 2022. Read more key takeaways from the Talent Management meeting.

Jan 21, 2022: 64% of managers are adopting 3-2 as a flex schedule in what is billed as the new “standard” for the industry. Firms are also rethinking the use of office space, and removing equipment such as cells phones and black box hard drives.

Download the presentations from the NAREIM DEI Summit focused on diversity recruitment and the real-time challenges of building pipelines organically and with diversity-focused partners.

Architects and engineers led the conversation around sustainability more than a decade ago, but when it came to DEI the industry had been left “flat footed”. NOMA presents to the A&E meeting.

ANREV, INREV, NAREIM, NCREIF, PREA, REALPAC and ULI join forces with Ferguson Partners to launch the Global Real Estate DEI Survey on September 8

Women of color at the executive management and senior levels are departing at twice the rate of their population size in North America, despite the representation of women and people of color improving overall for CRE in 2022. Read more highlights from the Jan 26 DEI Survey meeting.

Jul 22, 2022: The Global Real Estate DEI Survey 2022, benchmarking gender, ethnicity and nationality in real estate investment management and the wider commercial real estate industry globally, will open for submissions on July 28. Get involved now.

Jan 24, 2022: 64% of investment managers are adopting 3-2 as a flex schedule in what is billed as the new “standard” for the industry. Firms are focused on Tues, Wed and Thurs in the office and are also rethinking the use of office space.

Dec 16, 2021: 92% of CRE firms globally adopt a DEI program or initiatives to improve DEI in the workplace, with firms increasingly employing professionals dedicated to DEI or utilizing DEI committees, the first global CRE DEI Survey reveals.

Despite being a $16 trillion-dollar industry, CRE is still a relatively unknown career path among underrepresented high school students. The Real Estate Exchange (REEX) Program aims to address real estate’s lack of ethnic diversity. MIT's Kelly Cameron explain how.

Class of 2021-22 strongest field yet – with a total of 68 candidates from 11 schools, up from 45 nominations in 2020.