CHICAGO—@properties has just released its latest annual developmentmarket report, for which it completed almost 100 surveys withdevelopers, bankers, architects, contractors and its owndevelopers. In addition to analyzing trends in neighborhoods suchas River North, the Gold Coast, the South Loop and others, the realestate brokerage firm asked its respondents to identify theprincipal risks for residential for-sale development in Chicagothis year.

“This is the most comprehensive@report we've ever assembled, and the best thing is that the mostimportant insights are coming directly from the people who aredesigning, building, financing and selling new, for-saleconstruction in Chicago,” says Michael Golden, co-founder of @properties, the city's largestbrokerage by market share. “It's not just an analysis of the marketfrom 30,000 feet. It's people from all sectors of the industrysaying, 'Here's what we're dealing with. Here are the bigchallenges and the big opportunities.'”