Editorial: 25 Years of research in Journal of Corporate Real Estate

In 2023, Emerald publishes volume 25 of the Journal of Corporate Real Estate (JCRE). This “anniversary” seemed like a good moment to look back at how the journal has developed and the challenges experienced by those involved along the way. Therefore, we have contacted all the editors, from its initiation at Henry Stewart in 1998 and its transfer to Emerald since 2005. We asked them to write about the challenges that they experienced, some highlights and how the journal developed under their editorship. “Coincidentally”, we also received a submission with a bibliographic analysis over the journal’s existence, which passed our review process in time and is also published in this first issue of volume 25. Both the editors’ comments and this analysis show that the journal grew along with similar challenges and topics as the Corporate Real Estate (CRE) research field itself. Having started as a mainly practitioner focused topic at first, it took quite some time before it developed into the full-fledged academic field which it is now. Researchers from many different disciplinary backgrounds contribute to our journal. But let us start at the beginning.