Some 95.6% of rents were paid as of June 2021, down just slightly from the past two years' figures.

In about 16 months, new commercial and high-rise buildings will require photovoltaic panels and storage batteries.

Commercial restaurants overall remain below 2019 traffic levels.

Affordability looms large in these areas.

Price patterns in opportunity zones continued to roughly track trends in other areas of the US, even surpassing them in some ways.

Major demographic changes will require the industry to adopt new construction methods.

Covid restrictions are easing.

Around 2.2 million of the 2.9 million office jobs lost as the result of the pandemic have been recovered.