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ULI SPRING MEETING ULI SPRING MEETING
Colorado Convention Center, Denver, CO, United States May 12-14, 2025

General Session: Learning in Real Time: Experts Share Their Forecasts for Real Estate in ’24, ’25, and ’26

Wed Apr 10 1:00 PM — 2:00 PM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time New York Hilton Midtown - Level 3, Grand Ballroom
The ULI Real Estate Economic Forecast is a semiannual survey of leading industry experts. The latest edition will have been completed just before the Spring Meeting. How do the experts see 27 key economic and real estate indicators moving by the end of 2024, 2025, and 2026? How have forecasts changed from six months earlier? And why? What signals are the experts watching for in real estate as they look ahead? Where do the experts agree and disagree? Hear a lively debate among leading economists and analysts who participated in the Real Estate Economic Forecast survey as they explain or defend their opinions. Ask questions or challenge their views about what's ahead for the real estate industry through the end of 2024 and all the way through 2026.

Speakers

Moderator

Contributor and Senior Analyst CNBC

Russia’s actions toward Ukraine shifted the global political order—creating one more driver of economic uncertainty already compounded by the lingering effects of the Coronavirus pandemic, inflation, and more. Ron Insana has been connecting the dots to give his audience a clearer idea of what the economic future might look like. As a pioneering financial journalist, Ron has covered the most important economic stories of our…

Panelist

Managing Director, Chief Investment Strategist for Global Wealth KKR

Paula Campbell Roberts joined KKR in 2017 and is the Chief Investment Strategist for our Global Wealth business and a Managing Director on KKR’s Global Macro & Asset Allocation team. As Chief Investment Strategist, Paula advises our wealth management partners on macroeconomics and asset allocation, with a focus on the role that private assets, including private equity, real estate, infrastructure, and credit, can play in…

Panelist

Americas Real Estate, Hospitality & Construction Leader Ernst & Young, LLP

Mr. Grinis is the Americas Real Estate, Hospitality & Construction Leader for the firm’s $2 Billion-dollar real estate business with over 17,000 professionals worldwide. The practice is the leading provider of Assurance, Tax, Strategy and Transactions, and Consulting services to the real estate industry.

Prior to this his current role, Mr. Grinis has served in several leadership positions for the firm, including the firm’s real estate Private Equity…

Panelist

Chairman Rosen Consulting Group

Ken Rosen is Chairman of Rosen Consulting Group, a real estate market research firm, Chairman of the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics, and Professor Emeritus and California State Chair of Real Estate and Urban Economics at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Mr. Rosen is a trustee of the Urban Land Institute and is a member of…