New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio delivered another striking blow to property owners when he signed into law N.Y.C. Council Int. No. 1932-A (2020) on May 26, 2020. The new legislation prohibits landlords from enforcing personal guaranties on certain commercial leases for defaults occurring between March 7, 2020 and Sept. 30, 2020.

There are approximately 453 single-tenant bank-occupied properties on the market for sale in the US.

The act is a temporary solution meant to provide some level of certainty to renters, modest protections for small landlords and time for the state to determine what additional relief may be needed.

The strategy is to combine the customer inventory warehouse space with traditional retail real estate.

Despite all the pre-pandemic talk of a "retail apocalypse," many of these once-healthy chains have never been in a distressed situation.

Numbers of lawsuits remind taxpayers and assessors to exclude intangible assets from taxable real estate value.

As the effects of COVID-19 continue to impact the real estate industry, you may need to engage with your lenders to restructure your loans. Here are some suggestions on how to do that.

"The industrial market enters the second half of 2020 well positioned to record increased demand for available space and inflows of investor capital," Marcus Millichap research analyst Erik Pisor said.