Analysis

Employees are productive while working at home, but they do struggle with the absence of coworker interaction and "sub-optimal work environments."

New technologies can enhance risk mitigation and maximize asset values.

Fitch Ratings latest report shows the country's mortgage market is well positioned to withstand forbearance programs now, but that a second wave of COVID-19 could bring instability.

"Preliminary numbers indicate that the CMBS delinquency reading is set for a sizable decline," Trepp's Manus Clancy said.

Employees want to be back in offices to stay connected to colleagues—and demand will increase for lower-cost, more accessible suburban offices with greater space for social-distancing, says Black Creek Group.

Even with more intensive cleaning, the less-contact approach to combating the virus may lower hotel costs, the executives said, especially if front desk staff is reduced in favor of cell phone check-in procedures.

Debt funds and insurance companies have been relatively unscathed as financial powers grapple with significant price rediscovery."

"If the flaring pandemic causes further slowing in states reopening and reinstituting lockdowns, that would present a headwind to the recovery," according to the chief economist for JLL.