Dear ULI Ireland members and friends,

I want to take this opportunity to wish all of you a very Happy New Year.

As you know, 2023 was a very active year for ULI Ireland during which we grew our membership locally and hosted a series of events including:

• Excellent breakfast meetings on the retail, office, and logistics sectors
• A Planning and Development Bill update
• A timber construction roundtable breakfast meeting
• A Lunch and Learn event with Margaret Sweeney from IRES REIT
• Site visits to Central Plaza, Quantum Logistics Park, and Dublin Port.

In conjunction with PwC, we launched the 2024 edition of the ‘Emerging Trends in Real Estate’ report and facilitated the annual ‘ULI Excellence in Placemaking’ awards in conjunction with CBRE.

We also hosted our ULI Ireland Annual Conference 2023 and Leaders Dinner on the theme of ‘From Strategy to Delivery’ in October with great success.

For 2024, an equally ambitious programme is envisaged with several great events and site visits planned, the first of which is a breakfast briefing on the morning of 16 February on the theme of Sustainability with the MEP with responsibility for implementing the Energy Performance Buildings Directive, Ciarán Cuffe, as our keynote speaker.

For details about this event and other events in Q1, check out https://ireland.uli.org/events

I look forward to seeing you at a ULI Ireland event during the year.

Marie Hunt

ULI Ireland Chair