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A dampened CRE recovery in 2025

with Abigail Rosenbaum and Riccardo Pizzuti | Online | April 4, 2025

While we anticipate solid economic growth in 2025, ongoing tariff uncertainty continues to pose downside risks. We expect US inflation to rise in the short term, leading the Fed to hold rates steady until December. Elevated long-term bond yields are expected to temper investor sentiment. As a result, the commercial real estate (CRE) pricing recovery will remain subdued this year, though not derailed, before gaining stronger momentum in 2026 and 2027. In this real estate webinar, we utilize our proprietary Relative Return Index (RRI) to identify compelling risk-adjusted investment opportunities across global CRE markets as the pricing recovery unfolds.

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First shots of the tariff wars disrupt the industrial landscape

with Nico Palesch and Sean Metcalfe | Online | March 13, 2025

The return of President Trump to the White House has been accompanied by a flurry of executive actions, statements, and threats that have brought on mild but notable downgrades to our forecasts for global macroeconomic and industrial growth. Underneath the hood however some sectors and some regions are much more exposed in both our baseline forecasts and in more damaging trade scenarios. Join us to hear about what we think is likely to happen in the near and medium term, how it will affect key industrial sectors and how things could deteriorate if trade actions escalate further. We will also cover the state of European industry—why the industrial recession has lasted so long and what factors are holding back recovery.

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ETC tourism trends and prospects: Q4 2024

with Chloe Parkins and Jennifer Iduh | Online | January 29, 2025

Tourism Economics will highlight and reflect on the latest tourism trends and data in Europe for 2024, as well as provide some analysis on both the global and European economic backdrop. Following President Trump’s inauguration, we will also highlight some key assumptions and risks to the forecasts and how a second term may impact travel flows, including those from China and how this may effect the long-haul travel recovery.

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Global CRE key themes for 2025 – A tentative growth revival

with Abigail Rosenbaum, Mark Unsworth, Nicholas Wilson and Riccardo Pizzuti | Online | December 12, 2024

Join us as we explore the outlook for the global commercial real estate market in 2025 and our key themes for the year ahead. CRE is poised for a tentative revival in values after several challenging years. With the interest rate cutting cycle underway, prices appear to have bottomed out in most sectors, while credit conditions and investment activity are beginning to show early signs of recovery. This webinar will provide key insights into the factors driving this tentative rebound and what it means for investors and market participants in the coming year.

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Australian student accommodation on the up but headwinds are mounting

with Michael Dyer and Timothy Hibbert | Online | December 12, 2024

The Australian purpose-built student accommodation sector has begun its recovery from pandemic lows. New investment is on the rise, with an undersupply of beds having driven robust rental growth, supporting developer confidence. This is also showing through in rising asset transactions. However, the market faces growing challenges on the demand side, particularly increased uncertainty arising from an active policy environment for overseas students. Migration Strategy tweaks (including higher language standards and increased application fees) are already impacting and a new student cap looms from 2025. In this webinar, we will discuss recent events in the space, unpack the population and policy trends set to impact the market, and explore where the sector will go from here.

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City tourism beyond pandemic recovery – is the new normal the same as the old normal?

with Dave Goodger, Emma Laverty and Kieran Ferran | Online | September 25, 2024

As tourism moves beyond pandemic recovery we will look at the emerging city travel trends to understand how demand and rankings have changed, including shifts in demand composition by source market. Changes in source market preferences and connectivity as well as any impacts of costs and affordability will also be considered. Demand composition, including business and leisure travel trends will also be discussed relative to pre-pandemic trends.

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Treading carefully on the path to recovery

with Riccardo Marcelli Fabiani | Online | September 24, 2024

The recovery continues but shows signs of cracking, and some measures of inflation keep dragging their feet. Shaky confidence casts doubt on growth shifting up a gear, whilst the European Central Bank remains reluctant to signal a much looser monetary policy. Will growth lose steam amidst an industrial sector still in the doldrums? Will the ECB wreck the ship in its effort to tame inflation? The eurozone economy had a decent first half of the year, but the pace of the recovery going forward remains highly uncertain.

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Industrial recovery struggles to gain momentum

with Abby Samp and Dominic Dobryniewski | Online | September 23, 2024

Industrial production growth has improved relative to last year, but still trails the broader economy. The cycle has bottomed out and remains on course for a gradual recovery, but the lagged impact of past monetary policy tightening and continued central bank caution around inflation, particularly in Europe, means momentum will take time to build. Join us for a full summary of the outlook across key sectors.

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European Travel Trends & Prospects Q2 2024

with Chloe Parkins, Menno Van IJssel and Alexander Robinson | Online | June 19, 2024

International travel in Europe has moved above 2019 levels as we go into the second quarter of 2024. This webinar will investigate where this recovery is coming from and what destinations are lagging behind, as well as looking out towards the rest of this year as travel becomes more broad-based across the region. Additionally, STR (part of the CoStar Group) will be presenting the year-to-date developments in the hotel industry across Europe.

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Eurozone: A steady but unspectacular recovery

with Ricardo Amaro | Online | June 17, 2024

Latest data reinforced signs that the eurozone's economic recovery is continuing to progress following stronger-than-expected GDP growth of 0.3% q/q in Q1. But growth remains uneven country and sector-wide, leaving a further pickup in momentum unlikely in the near-term. We continue to expect the recovery will gather pace next year, with GDP growth rising to 1.8% after 0.8% in 2024. In this webinar, we will recap our outlook for the eurozone economy and ECB policy.

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Post-correction real estate opportunities on the horizon?

with Abigail Rosenbaum | Online | April 17, 2024

Solid US GDP growth and lower inflation in 2024 will lead the Fed to begin cutting rates mid-year. Rate cuts should stabilize investor confidence and bring the commercial real estate (CRE) pricing correction to an end this year. Once a recovery is underway in 2025, opportunities will start to emerge. In this real estate webinar, using our Relative Return Index (RRI), we highlight risk-adjusted investment opportunities for Global CRE in 2024 and beyond.

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Unveiling the key source markets – including China – for APAC tourism destinations

with Federico Chirico and Michael Shoory | Online | April 4, 2024

We will explore growth prospects for key source markets – both established and emerging – for tourists within the APAC region, and the expected destinations of those travellers. As part of this, we will touch on global and regional trends for outbound travel, and consider the latest developments and outlook for the recovery of the Chinese outbound market. This includes the continued importance of China as a driver of demand relative to other growing markets, and the implications for a range of destinations.

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Long-haul travel prospects as the sector moves beyond recovery

with Dave Goodger and Helen McDermott | Online | March 27, 2024

2023 marked the recovery of the travel sector to pre-pandemic levels, with complete recovery of international travel anticipated for 2024. However, long-haul travel has lagged wider activity to date. As we move towards peak travel months for many markets we will assess travel demand across major destinations and source markets in this webinar, including changes in short-haul and long-haul flows and the importance of capacity and travel policies. The impact of geopolitical tensions and perceptions of safety will be considered as well as sustainability trends and costs.

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Eurozone: On a slow path towards recovery

with Rory Fennessy | Online | March 18, 2024

While the worst may be over for the eurozone economy, the prospect of a quick revival in growth is limited. Activity should pick up stronger in the second half of 2024 as falling inflation supports real incomes and consumer spending, but more restrictive fiscal policy as government priorities shift from providing support to deficit reduction will drag on growth. We expect the ECB to commence with rate cuts in Q2, although growth won’t receive a boost until 2025.

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Global CRE key themes for 2024 – A year of transition

with Mark Unsworth and Nicholas Wilson | Online | January 30, 2024

Global GDP growth and inflation will slow in 2024 and central banks will begin to pivot in H2. Commercial real estate (CRE) values are likely to be slow to recover but opportunities will start to emerge. In this real estate webinar we discuss the outlook and take you through our key themes for the year ahead.

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ETC tourism trends and prospects: Q4 2023

with Chloe Parkins, Dave Goodger and Menno Van IJseel | Online | January 25, 2024

Tourism Economics will provide an overview of the latest tourism sector trends and outlook in Europe. This will include how international travel performed towards the end of 2023, with more countries verging on recovery. Further to this, we will delve into the prospects for recovery from China and other longer-haul markets.

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European Travel Trends & Outlook going into the shoulder season

with Chloe Parkins, Jennifer Iduh and Diego Maldonado | Online | October 19, 2023

International travel continues to recover this year, with some destinations experiencing a strong summer period, edging closer to pre-pandemic levels. This webinar will look into how destinations have performed over summer and its implications on recovery and performance going into the shoulder season. Will also include some insights on destinations with a contribution from TCI Research as well as from ETC and the Tourism Economics team.

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Travel growth to continue to defy economic slowdown

with Helen McDermott and Chloe Parkins | Online | October 11, 2023

International travel recovery has continued throughout 2023 to date and is set for further growth into 2024 despite slowdown and considerable uncertainty in key economic drivers. Consumers are prioritising travel experiences over other discretionary spending while some continued rebalancing of domestic and international travel is evident. We will also explore the extent to which emerging market demand will become a key driver.

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Is city travel recovery a return to pre-pandemic norms?

with Dave Goodger, Kieran Ferran and Emma Laverty | Online | October 3, 2023

City tourism recovery continues and our latest forecast update suggests that 2023 will be the year when many markets will regain 2019 levels in terms of total arrivals (international and domestic) with many more on the cusp of a recovery. But the balance of travel segments has changed, and recovery in some international and long-haul segments will take longer for many cities. We will discuss the latest trends in this session as well as the reasons why recovery to date may differ from prior expectations. Any problems associated with over tourism will also be discussed as we reach previous pre-pandemic peaks.

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