In its Market Trends section, Commercial Investment Real Estate magazine included highlights from Akerman's U.S. Real Estate Summit. The brief reported on the state of major domestic real estate sectors, and the role of foreign investments industry-wide. A number of speakers covered the latter during the 2014 Akerman Summit with a specific focus on development projects funded by foreign money in prominent urban areas. 

The article noted, "Offshore investors, mostly from China, continue to flood the U.S. real estate market with capital, according to speakers at the Akerman U.S. Real Estate Summit."