Annual Reports – The Real Estate Roundtable

Roundtable Releases 2025 Annual Report

Posted on September 12, 2025September 12, 2025 by abigail_grenadier

The Real Estate Roundtable (RER) is pleased to share our 2025 Annual Report, A New Era for America’s Buildings: Policy to meet increased energy demands, new technology, and evolving living and working environments.

Roundtable Leadership

This year’s report highlights how RER’s engagement drove policy wins in tax, capital and credit, housing, energy, and homeland security, amid one of the most intense legislative years in recent memory.

It also underscores commercial real estate’s vital role in powering jobs, growth, and communities nationwide, while ensuring our industry’s trusted voice is heard at the highest levels in Washington.

“The pace and complexity of policy this past year has been unprecedented, requiring rapid and well-coordinated responses,” said Jeffrey DeBoer, RER President and CEO. “Thanks to the engagement and expertise of our members, policy committees and national real estate partners, we have met each legislative challenge with substance, speed and credibility. I believe the past 12 months have been among the most challenging and most successful in our history.”

“In the year ahead, we will continue to evolve how we communicate our mission, align our membership with the future of the industry and focus on the most urgent issues,” said Kathleen McCarthy, RER Chair and Global Co-Head of Blackstone Real Estate. “Real estate anchors our communities and touches every part of American life—from where people live and work to how businesses grow. As the nation faces a housing crisis and urgent energy challenges, public policy must support a strong, resilient real estate sector that drives solutions, fuels economic growth and improves quality of life and opportunity for all.”

Explore the 2025 Report

RER’s FY2025 Annual Report details the organization’s mission and recent activities, and offers potential policy solutions to today’s pressing and far-reaching industry challenges, including:

Tax Policy

Capital & Credit

Energy

Infrastructure, Housing & Cities

Homeland Security

The publication also includes:

Intro — featuring Q&A with Kathleen McCarthy and Jeffrey DeBoer

Policy Outreach – summary of outreach activities

CRE by The Numbers — useful industry statistics

Membership — of The Roundtable

Printed copies of the Annual Report are currently being mailed to members. If you would like additional copies, please email agrenadier@rer.org

Roundtable Releases FY2023 Annual Report, “Sustained Strength, Sustained Solutions”

Posted on August 11, 2023October 27, 2023 by Trey Jackson

The Real Estate Roundtable's 2023 FY2023 Annual Report cover

The Real Estate Roundtable has released its FY2023 Annual Report, which coincides with the June 30 conclusion of the organization’s fiscal year. The report details how the industry experienced significant transformation due to the global pandemic—yet emerged resilient and adaptive, achieving successes over the past 12 months on several national issues in the tax, energy, and capital formation policy areas.

Roundtable Policy Issues

In the introduction to “Sustained Strength, Sustained Solutions,” Roundtable Chair John F. Fish (Chairman & CEO, Suffolk) and Roundtable President and CEO Jeffrey DeBoer state, “Adapting to this new reality requires us to rethink how businesses and people use offices, retail and entertainment spaces, housing, medical care, and more. Future buildings must accommodate the changes brought on by the pandemic, as well as those that accompany the rapidly evolving artificial intelligence and technological world. The real estate industry is at the center of this transition, where the future of work, the future of housing, the future of our communities, and much more are being reimagined before our eyes.”

The Roundtable leaders add, “However, we are also mindful that embracing these changes is not without its costs and time constraints, and as has proven in the past to be true, the industry’s ability to respond to these changes will be inhibited or encouraged by public policy actions.”

The Roundtable’s FY2023 Annual Report details the organization’s mission, recent activities, and offers potential policy solutions to today’s pressing and far-reaching industry challenges, including: