Analysis

Fitch Ratings reports that effects of the coronavirus crisis on retail has deteriorated financial performance of "lower-quality" regional malls.

NEW YORK CITY—The affordable housing crisis existed prior to the first case of Coronavirus here, but the pandemic has heightened the need in low-to-moderate-income…

While the virus will end at some date, its effects will last much longer, noted Messaging Architects.

JLL also said that there were good signs that the US economy is beginning to reawaken, citing truck loads, mortgage applications, new business applications, flight bookings, hotel reservations and distances traveled.

In the COVID-19 downturn, the buyer pool is getting smaller more quickly, he wrote. The eventual floor for prices will be driven by the status of property income, investor perceptions and economic fundamentals, he wrote.

The company's head of global real estate says that Microsoft isn't in any rush to get employees back into offices. But when they do return the goal is to work in team rooms and "neighborhoods," with appropriate social distancing.

Student housing thrives where scores of students need a place to crash while attending classes—live, in-person, on-campus classes. What should be a solid…

Ever since JC Penney filed for bankruptcy earlier this month, rumors have swirled around potential buyers. The latest—and most dissected by insiders—is Amazon.