COVID-19 tops a list of the 10 interrelated factors impacting the real estate sector, in a list compiled recently by The Counselors of Real Estate that describes the coronavirus as the "greatest environmental experiment of our real estate lives."

The 2020-21 Top Ten Issues Affecting Real Estate, discussed recently in a webinar with real estate editors, shows the deep effect of the pandamic on factors affecting the real estate market.

"The change wrought by the COVID-19 crisis and its aftermath will teach us about priorities, resilience, and demand in ways that we did not dare test before," Michel Couillard, 2020 global chair of the CRE, said in prepared remarks.

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Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

Senior reporter Brenda Sapino Jeffreys covers the business of law in Texas. Contact her at [email protected] On Twitter: @BrendaSJeffreys