Report: Top 10 Forces Reshaping Real Estate
The Counselors of Real Estate's 2025 report lists 10 key issues, including AI, affordability and insurance costs, driving rapid changes in the real estate industry.
CHICAGO — From inflation and insurance costs to artificial intelligence and affordability, the real estate industry is navigating a rapidly shifting landscape. The Counselors of Real Estate’s newly released “Top Ten Issues Affecting Real Estate” report outlines how economic uncertainty, demographic changes and technology are converging — often in unpredictable ways — to reshape markets and challenge sellers, buyers and investors.
The report, available online, highlights pressing issues the organization identified as shaping the industry in 2025:
1. Global & U.S. elections
2. Cost of financing
3. Loan maturities & debt repricing
4. Geopolitics & regional wars
5. Insurance costs
6. Housing affordability & attainability
7. Artificial intelligence
8. Sustainability
9. Office vacancies, the tax base & the health of urban cores
10. Price expectations gap
“The rate of change in the industry is rapid and — with many of the issues interrelated — the common denominators are people, goods and money,” The Counselors of Real Estate said.
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