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LaSalle Report Finds Political Uncertainty Doesn’t Rattle Investment

Real estate market fundamentals in North America performed in line with expectations during the first half of 2017, with a few variations, primarily in the U.S. Chicago-based LaSalle Investment Management’s Mid-Year Investment Strategy Annual 2017 found the U.S. and Canadian real estate markets continue to attract investor interest despite these trends.

Among the key issues impacting the market are:

  • the pace of change within the retail sector
  • the sharper-than-expected slowdown in transaction volume
  • the sustained political turbulence
  • slower-than-expected progress on key policy initiatives

The report also reinforces the case for adding environmental factors as a secular driver of real estate demand. LaSalle does not see the U.S. pull-out from the Paris climate treaty affecting the long-term importance of these “E-factors.”

While the U.S. real estate market remains healthy, this trend is a reversal from the strong growth of the past six years. The report shows that capital flows to U.S. real estate are above long term levels, but decelerating.

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Dennis Kaiser is Vice President of Public Relations and Communications for Connect Creative. Dennis is a communications leader with more than 40 years of experience including as a journalist and in corporate and agency marketing communications roles. He is responsible for Connect Creative’s agency client services and is involved in a range of initiatives ranging from public relations and content strategy, communications and message development, copywriting, media relations, social media and content marketing services. Prior to joining Connect Media in 2015, his most recent corporate communications roles involved leading a regional public relations effort across Southern California for CBRE, playing a key marketing role on JLL’s national retail team, and directing the global public relations effort at ValleyCrest (BrightView), the nation’s largest commercial landscape services company. He has worked on marketing communications assignments for such CRE companies as Blackstone/Equity Office, Carlyle, Caruso, Disney Resorts, GE Capital, Irvine Company, Hines, Howard Hughes Corp., Jeffries, Lennar, MGM, Marcus & Millichap, Prologis, Raleigh Studios, Simon, Starwood, Trammell Crow Company, Transamerica, UBS and Wynn Resorts. Dennis has also worked on communications and launch strategies for a number of consumer electronic, media and tech brands including SlingMedia, Channel Master, Deluxe Media Entertainment, BeIn Sports, EchoStar and Sprint. Dennis’s agency background included firms such as Off Madison Ave., Idea Hall and Macy + Associates. He has earned an outstanding reputation with organization leaders as a trusted advisor, strategic program implementer, consensus builder and exceptional collaborator. Dennis has developed and managed national communications programs for Fortune 500 companies to start-ups, both public and private. He’s successfully worked with journalists across the globe representing clients involved in major-breaking news stories, product launches, media tours, and company news announcements. Dennis has been involved in a host of charitable and community organizations including the American Cancer Society, Easter Seals, Boy Scouts, Chrysalis Foundation, Freedom For Life, HOLA, L.A.’s BEST, Reach Out and Read, Super Bowl Host Committee, and the Thunderbirds Charities.

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