COVID-19

Employees are adjusting well to working from home during the pandemic and remain amazingly productive.

COVID, with casual dining and a lot of other sectors, has accelerated the problems that the weaker players had to a large extent, says Boulder Group president Randy Blankstein.

According to Cushman & Wakefield, the downturn will be intense and short-lived, bringing a certain but nominal decrease in office activity.

The new report from KPMG predicts that bankruptcies by retailers will at least double in 2020, as the COVID-19 closures "intensify the Darwinian struggle for survival that has already been under way."

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…

These potential risks may not be covered by current property insurance, says Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr's Louis P. Archambault

Rents fell in 16 major markets in March, leading to the biggest slowdown in 30 days since 2014. According to Zillow's real estate market report, the slowest rent growth were in Baltimore, where it was only up .4 percent from last year, and New York, up 1.1 percent from last year.