Summit Journal, the official, award-winning publication of AFIRE, seeks the latest ideas, research, forecasts, and thought leadership for Fall/Winter 2022.
Proposals can be submitted as narrative descriptions, outlines, abstracts, completed projects, or other formats.
The deadline for proposals is Friday, August 26, 2022 has been extended to Friday, September 2, 2022. Decisions will be announced by the end of September 2022.
Full drafts of accepted proposals will be due by Friday, October 28.
This is an open issue with a broad theme focused on the future of global commercial real estate investment. Topics may include:
- Advancements in social and governance principles related to ESG
- Remote workforces and the future of commercial office properties
- Demographics, migration trends, and US census issues
- Diversity and equity ideas for businesses and investment decisions
- In-depth look at property types (e.g., industrial, retail, multifamily, etc.)
- Geopolitics, comparative analyses of real estate investment by country, etc.
We are particularly interested in informed research and analyses that provide original insights on regular topics—and especially ideas that challenge popular assumptions.
Both original articles and reprints are accepted, rights permitting.
Authors retain content ownership, subject to AFIRE’s copyright policy and other guidelines.
Karen is the head of acquisitions for Allianz Real Estate, and has worked to invest in more than $25 billion of unlisted institutional real estate over the past 20 years. The first half of her career was oriented toward closed-end value-add and opportunistic fund investments in office, retail and multi-family assets across continental Europe. Since 2011, Karen has primarily focused on core and core-plus commercial investments in US gateway markets.
