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How Life Sciences is Invigorating Commercial Real Estate

  • November 18, 2022
If the pandemic has taught us anything, it’s that the life sciences have had a tremendous, life-saving impact across the globe. Vaccines and treatments now allow most people to avoid Covid’s worst outcomes — results that would not have been possible without an existing infrastructure replete with life sciences facilities. But Covid is just the latest and most visible concern being tackled.
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What’s Next for CRE’s Industrial Sector?

  • October 19, 2022
The transformation of retail has given the already-stout industrial sector an added boost, but with economic headwinds in the forecast, will industrial players soon have to say “so long” to “so good”?
Industry Trends Insights

What Modernized Building Codes Mean for Commercial Real Estate

  • October 11, 2022
Earlier this summer, the government announced a multi-faceted initiative for new building codes designed to modernize commercial and residential infrastructure for disaster resilience and energy conservation. The National Initiative to Advance Building Codes is part of an ambitious approach to dealing with climate change. Here are a few insights on the initiative and the impact that modernized building codes have on commercial real estate (CRE).
Industry Trends Insights

Multifamily CRE Remains Strong in 2022 

  • September 27, 2022
Investment in multifamily commercial real estate (CRE) started off the year with a bang, and the segment appears to be headed for a strong and smooth finish. Trends in multifamily CRE have seen double-digit boosts in rent growth and heightened investor interest. But what’s waiting for this thriving industry the remainder of the year?
Industry Trends Insights Office Space

The Big Shift in Office: The Purpose-led Workplace

  • September 7, 2022
As unemployment rates continue to remain low, companies are challenged to find what factors will attract and retain the best talent — and how keeping talent happy and productive impacts their bottom line. Enter the “Big Shift” in commercial real estate (CRE) — the pivot to regenerative, “purpose-led” offices, which JLL defines as redesigned space that creates a more collaborative environment to foster high-quality work and interaction while providing stimulating, nurturing ambience.
Industry Trends Insights

CRE Takes a Journey into the Metaverse

  • August 30, 2022
Commercial real estate (CRE) relies heavily on social trends and technology to stay current and competitive. One of the latest developments to have captured our collective imaginations is the metaverse, perhaps because of its sci-fi sounding name — or, due to the investments made in the technology by global brands, FinTechs, and even celebrities. A potentially multi-trillion dollar opportunity buoyed by nearly 400 million current users (projected to reach five billion by 2030), the metaverse may be poised to become the next big tactic in business strategy.
Industry Trends Insights

Multi-tenant Retail Opportunities in Commercial Real Estate

  • August 18, 2022
Call it a recovery or even a renaissance, but multi-tenant retail has tenaciously and innovatively rebounded to the delight of consumers, operators and investors. Multi-tenant, and its sub-sector, open-air shopping centers, have emerged as a bright spot in the post-COVID retail landscape.
Industry Trends Insights

E-Commerce Continues to Fuel CRE’s Industrial Segment

  • July 28, 2022
As a powerful supporting driver of Commercial Real Estate (CRE), e-commerce has shown how it can endure, even through a pandemic and supply chain shutdowns. Learn more about how e-commerce has helped maintain a steady demand for space — and how the Industrial sector is responding.
Industry Trends Insights

Taking the LEED — Sustainability Trends in Commercial Real Estate

  • July 20, 2022
The global seismic shifts we’ve experience in the past few years — the pandemic, the push for social justice and climate-driven events — have converged to permanently alter trends in commercial real estate (CRE). Add to that the ticking clock for reversing the climate crisis, and we can see why sustainability trends in CRE are of the highest priority, worldwide.
Industry Trends Insights

As the Office Continues to Evolve — so Does the Employee

  • July 5, 2022
The evolved workplace is here, something not at all like the traditional offices last seen in 2019. As a result of the pandemic, a revised relationship now exists between organizations and employees. A new middle ground is beginning to emerge, a more welcoming and supportive environment where new creative office environments play a central role.
Industry Trends Insights

PropTech: Bringing a Technological Edge to Office CRE

  • June 20, 2022
Property technology — more popularly known as “PropTech” — is a buzzword being thrown around in the commercial real estate (CRE) world today, especially post-pandemic where smarter and more sustainable technological solutions are pushed to the center of conversations.
Economic Trends Industry Trends Insights

Retail Revival – Mixing Digital Convenience with the Brick & Mortar Experience

  • June 8, 2022
From “phygital” to fulfillment, industrial to ESG, there’s an evolutionary resurgence in retail that presents new opportunities for innovative commercial real estate companies.
Industry Trends Insights

KBS Talks Strategy as it Celebrates Three Decades in Business: Q&A with Luke Hamagiwa, VP/Asset Manager of the CRE Firm’s Eastern Region

  • May 18, 2022
Luke Hamagiwa serves as the market leader responsible for carrying out investment objectives throughout the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States on behalf of KBS REIT, pension fund and sovereign wealth fund clients. Within these markets, he is responsible for the execution of strategic business plans for each of the assets within his portfolio along with new acquisition opportunities and joint-venture partnerships.
Industry Trends Insights

Green and Clean: The Importance of ESG for the Built Environment

  • May 9, 2022
Owners and investors in Commercial Real Estate (CRE) are working to attract employees back to the office while contending with trends such as hybrid work, competitors who offer work-from-home options, and the Great Resignation. At the same time, employees are hyperaware of their surroundings — with health and safety top of mind.
Industry Trends Insights

Trends in Hybrid Work and Moving to the Flex Office

  • April 19, 2022
There’s no denying that workforce dynamics have spurred workplace transformation and the changing nature of work necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Companies that might have never entertained remote work managed to shift their entire workforce to working from home within days in many cases.
Industry Trends Insights Strategy

Blend to Win: Is “Phygital” the Future of Retail?

  • April 6, 2022
As the retail sector rebounds from another great disruption, the hybrid approach between physical and digital experiences is gaining steam in the industry.
Culture Industry Trends

How The Great Resignation Is Changing Today’s Office

  • March 30, 2022
The battle is on. It’s perks & pay versus the Great Resignation.
Industry Trends Insights

The Great Resignation — a CRE Contradiction

  • March 23, 2022
With more than 38 million workers voluntarily quitting their jobs, 2021 was dubbed the year of the “Great Resignation” and “the Big Quit,” and the “Great Retirement.”
Industry Trends

Will the Office Sector Follow Multifamily to Record Heights?

  • March 14, 2022
Although the apartment sector leads its office counterpart, their common drivers — sprinkled with some southern charm — could amount to a rising tide that will lift all commercial real estate boats.
Industry Trends Insights

Variables vs. Values: Is a Return to Office Inevitable?

  • February 23, 2022
While COVID-19 variables may cast doubt on office work alternatives, values point to many strong returns.
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