Global CRE Investment

This is event is unprecedented, making it difficult to predict the path toward recovery.

With so much market volatility and general uncertainty, it has become challenging to price deals.

CEO Mark Hoplamazian and Chairman of the Board Tom Pritzker are forgoing 100% of their salaries, and Hyatt's senior leadership team is taking a salary cut of 50% through the end of May.

Areas of CRE have been more directly affected, and Placer.ai dove into the data in Washington State to determine to what degree retail is being impacted by more heightened tensions.

The latest forecast from Christopher Thornberg of Beacon Economics predicts a bad quarter, but not necessarily a recession.

However, the firm also reported that is buybuy BABY and Harmon Face Values (Harmon) stores would remain open subject to state and local regulation in order to service essential infant, health and personal care needs.

This recession will be more severe but shorter than the Great Recession as UCLA estimates a 6.5% GDP loss in the second quarter alone.

This is the last full week of International Women's History Month so it seems appropriate to take a breather and shed a little light on women in CRE who have forged new paths and inspired colleagues in the process.