Become a ULI member and make an impact in your community and the real estate industry. Through valuable volunteer and leadership opportunities, you’ll connect with like-minded professionals, share ideas, and help shape the future of urban development.
Register Early for the 2026 ULI Spring Meeting
Exchange ideas, tour bold projects, and experience the best convening in real estate – all in Nashville, Tennessee, May 5-7
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ULI Spring Meeting tours offer behind-the-scenes access to transformative developments, emerging districts, and innovative projects redefining the city. Explore these real-world case studies, hear directly from the project leaders, and see how bold vision becomes built reality.
Submit your session idea by March 27 to help shape member-led programming in Miami this fall and contribute to one of the industry’s most influential global gatherings.
The 2026 Awards for Excellence recognize truly superior development efforts in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. Winning projects represent the highest standards of achievement in the development industry—standards that ULI members deem worthy of attainment in their professional endeavors. The Awards recognize the full development process of a project, not just its architecture or design, and a wide spectrum of both development projects and programs.
Developers have been confronting several challenges that are making it more difficult to break ground on new projects. Yet the total dollar value of overall construction starts is expected to grow 4 percent in 2026, to $1.26 trillion, according to Dodge Construction Network. Industry experts share their view on where things will shake out as new projects gear up for 2026.
Join housing industry professionals March 16-17 in Baltimore, Maryland for ULI’s annual Housing Opportunity Conference. Each year, the conference explores key factors and challenges contributing to our nation’s residential housing crisis and offers emerging cross-sector solutions that expand housing opportunities across communities in the United States.