Predicating is a hard game with investments in general. In commercial real estate, everyone is looking for a property or an asset class that can produce booming returns. For 2025, the CRE sector to watch might just be data centers, as PwC Bill Staffieri alongside co-partner Ricardo Ruiz in a presentation for ULI New York: Real Estate Outlook 2025 at NYU Stern School of Business, called it the "hottest piece of real estate right now."
THE NEED FOR AI
The reason for his strong opinion is related to the emergence of artificial intelligence, which is driving "the need for data centers."
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