Five of the seven apartment REITs reported Q1 April earnings this week, highlighting the impact COVID-19 has had - and will continue to have - on the real estate market.
From encouraging remote working to readjusting work on-site spaces and breaks, Cushman & Wakefield outlined six recommendations for creating social distancing measures and adjusting to the "new normal" in warehouses.
The researchers with Jones Lang LaSalle predicted the pandemic "may change the appeal of working alongside strangers, and in unassigned seats in any office environment, at least in the short term."
The report questioned whether businesses will decide to use less office space and instead push their operations to remote or work-from-home situations.
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.
Investments in qualified opportunity funds tracked by a key industry list have surpassed $10 billion, according to San Francisco-based professional services…
WeWork's retrenchment caused a deep drop in Q4 2019 commitments and other providers were expected to pick up the slack in Q1 2020, says a CBRE report. But such plans never materialized, stymied by the advent of COVID-19.