Research

SANTA BARBARA, CA-Although the coronavirus has hit the real estate market in southern California hard and the downturn shows no signs of abating any…

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."

Returning workers are worried, particularly about office cleaning procedures and their co-workers.

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.