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NAREIM™ (the National Association of Real Estate Investment Managers™) is the industry association dedicated to the business and organizational strategy of real estate investment management.

Since 1990, NAREIM has been the home for real estate investment management benchmarking and best practice education. Our focus is on peer-to-peer networking, where the only conversations are candid and brutally honest. You come to NAREIM to discuss what is working and what is not working among peers, and where you understand what the industry really thinks.

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Legal, Compliance & Risk

November 4 | NYC

Agenda items include:

  • The Promise of Generative AI: What Can Go Right
  • Generative AI Reality Check: What Can Go Wrong
  • Data Security, Reg S-P & Vendor Oversight
  • Conflicts: Balancing Fairness & Fundraising
  • What's on Your Mind?
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Capital Raising & Investor Relations

December 2-3 | Dallas

Agenda items include:

  • Annual General Meetings: Approaches Across Firms
  • Continuation Vehicles: Best Practices on Creating a True Win-Win for All
  • What’s in Your Tech Stack (Including AI)?
  • Capital Raising: Deep Dive Into Seasonality of The Job
  • Investor & Consultant Rapid-Fire Panel

NAREIM Highlights

A quick snapshot of what’s happening at NAREIM. Explore meeting summaries, pulse survey results, member-authored thought leadership.

AI Adoption: Balancing Business Value, Costs & Risks

October 9, 2026
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NAREIM’s annual Data & Information Management Meeting in Chicago opened with attendees choosing from a dozen topics for discussion during the morning Windy City Chat.

Overwhelmingly, the room gravitated toward artificial intelligence, dedicating the entire hour to the topic before revisiting it in subsequent sessions throughout the day.

The overarching takeaway? Data and IT professionals within real estate investment management firms are grappling with how to leverage generative AI to deliver measurable business value while controlling costs, managing risk and encouraging employees to embrace new ways of working.

“There’s AI for the masses, which is a general productivity tool, and then there is AI to help turbocharge the real estate investment management business.”

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NAREIM Announces Jeff Barclay Fellows Class of 2026-2027

September 21, 2026
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NAREIM celebrates the next generation of commercial real estate leaders through the NAREIM Jeff Barclay Fellows program.

​Named after the late Jeff Barclay, former NAREIM Chairman, Managing Director and Head of Acquisitions at Clarion Partners, and Head of Goldman Sachs’ Real Estate Group, the NAREIM Jeff Barclay Fellows award is given to outstanding graduate students with the goal to provide insights into the future of real estate investment management.

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The New Development Toolkit: Technology, Data and Better Decision-Making

September 18, 2026
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NAREIM’s Architecture, Engineering & Development meeting brought industry leaders to Boston to examine how technology, data and technical expertise are changing the way real estate teams evaluate risk, manage assets and plan for the future.

From artificial intelligence and due diligence technology to building envelopes, data centers and one of Boston’s largest waterfront developments, the focus kept returning to something more fundamental: making better decisions.

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