There was only one metric that got worse from April to May: The number of respondents who see delays in financing. Otherwise, coronavirus impacts on projects got slightly better for every metric that the survey measured.

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.

Nearly 40 real estate economists and analysts feel the COVID-19 recession will impact real estate markets and values less severely than the 2008 financial…

"Their responses suggest a sense of optimism, and a hope that—despite the slowdown—things will revert to business as usual," the CommercialCafe blog reported about its survey.

There were 34% of 110 surveyed investors who said they would avoid investing in retail-focused real estate projects because of the COVID-19 pandemic, said a recent survey by Prequin, a data analytics company for the alternative assets community.

Finalized new sales, which happened in just over 30 days, totalled more than $30 million.