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Industry Trends Insights

CRE Conversions: Adaptive Reuse Makes the Most of Existing Assets

Now may be the ideal time to consider adaptive reuse to convert commercial property to residential or repurposed for a different commercial use.
Culture Industry Trends

Strike a Pose: How CRE is Capitalizing on America’s Selfie Craze

Fueled by historically high social media usage and more than 4.48 billion users, the cultural phenomenon of taking selfies has become as much of a business opportunity as it is an obsession.
Culture Industry Trends

How Health & Wellness Post-Pandemic is Changing Office for the Better

In a new era of business, office owners and innovators are increasing their focus and effort on creating healthier buildings for the people who occupy them.
Culture Industry Trends

As Companies Return to the Workplace, How is the Office Evolving?

As we adjust to the new normal, office investors are determining how their properties can adapt to the shifting needs of today’s workforce and tenants. In a recent Q&A with Chuck Schreiber, CEO and Co-founder of KBS, the CRE executive shared his thoughts on the topic.
Culture Insights

Columbia, South Carolina, celebrates the city’s legacy of remarkable women with monument at KBS’ Main & Gervais building

This past summer, thought leaders in South Carolina’s capital city of Colombia gathered to honor the outstanding women, past and present, who helped shape our country’s 18th state. The occasion was the official unveiling of Architecture of Strength, an impressive monolithic sculpture and a daily reminder of women’s profound contribution to the community and beyond.
Industry Trends Insights

How CRE is Transforming Our Surroundings

The pandemic has brought a myriad of changes, much of which will have a permanent impression on commercial real estate (CRE). One of the most notable is the shift in consumer behavior and the impact on the environment around us.
Industry Trends

How Ghost Kitchens helped keep the restaurant industry cooking during COVID

There’s no disputing that lockdowns during the pandemic hit restaurants hard. Many were shuttered forever, but others found new ways to stay in business when dining rooms were, in a phrase, “ghost towns.”
Insights Sustainability

The Role of Commercial Real Estate in Sustainability

Sustainability is both an opportunity and a necessity for the commercial real estate (CRE) industry, which increasingly leverages it to serve people and future possibilities.
Industry Trends

How Smart Buildings Are Changing Commercial Real Estate

Before the pandemic, we heard a lot about “location” and “live, work, play.” While those will continue to be important in the future, one of the latest terms in commercial real estate (CRE) is “smart buildings.” For perspective, studies suggest that the smart building market will grow from $66 billion in 2020 to $109 billion by 2025.
Industry Trends

Developing a Property That’s Greater Than the Sum of its Parts

Luxury ground-up apartment development in Raleigh, North Carolina, offers exceptional amenities and overlooks the popular Midtown Park.
Industry Trends Insights

Office Trends: Behind the Rush to Dallas

Texas is the trifecta state, a place with warm weather, a zero-percent state income tax and inexpensive housing. But the “Lone Star State” is more than that: it’s also a major office hub centrally located in the U.S., with Dallas anchoring the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) metro area — where many of the Nation’s largest tech centers are located.
Industry Trends Insights

Industrial Real Estate’s Rise to the Top

Industrial Real Estate is currently the best performing commercial real estate (CRE) asset type, touting 44 consecutive quarters of positive net absorption. That’s according to recent forecasts, research articles, reports, and other data and analysis presented over the past couple of months. This spotlights an intriguing success story amid a pandemic that crippled so many businesses and industries.
Insights

What does hybrid and flex work look like and how does it impact office space?

Pandemic imperatives ultimately led to increased empowerment for office employees, with hybrid and flex work giving them more choices — and companies more to consider.
Industry Trends Insights

Why commercial office space is expanding in secondary markets

Millions of Americans move each year, but in the post-pandemic era something has changed: the workplace has evolved, and with change there are now new opportunities for both organizations and employees. One result is that people are in motion, moving from one metro area to another, often in search of a better work-life balance. In fact, Redfin reports that in the second quarter more than 30 percent of its website users searched in different metro areas.
Industry Trends Insights

Tenant Satisfaction and the New American Office

Remember when cubicles were all the rage? Office tenant preferences have changed over the years. Today, tenant satisfaction has been redefined as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and dramatic changes in the labor market.
Industry Trends Insights

Office Real Estate and COVID-19: the Great Shakedown

Like most of the commercial real estate (CRE) market, office came under pressure in 2020. Responding to local shelter-in-place health orders, up to 70% of the U.S. workforce was working from home (WFH) in April 2020, transforming once-bustling office buildings into ghost towns. That percentage has decreased to 56% since the beginning of the year, signaling a recovery is underway. The extent of that recovery and what it means for office real estate is still unknown, but there is some speculation.
Industry Trends Thought Leadership

The Future of Multifamily

The ongoing pandemic has turned many industries upside down. But in an interesting twist, experts say the multifamily space has navigated the crisis surprisingly well when you consider how things started.
Industry Trends Sustainability Thought Leadership

ESG in Commercial Real Estate

The focus on Environmental, Social and Governance principles drives value for a long list of stakeholders, including commercial real estate investors.
Industry Trends

The Future of Retail and What it Means for Retailers, Property Owners and Investors

The U.S. has experienced a dozen recessions in the last 70 years. For most, the cause can be linked to the financial markets. This time around, that’s not quite the case. What many consider to be the “COVID-19 recession” was triggered by an unexpected global pandemic and subsequent lockdown that seemingly brought the world to a screeching halt. Thousands of businesses were forced to close, at least temporarily, especially those in the non-essential in-person retail space.
Industry Trends Sustainability

What Happens with Commercial Real Estate After the Pandemic?

For the first time an end to the COVID-19 pandemic is in sight. The daily case count has fallen substantially as more and more people have gotten the vaccine and there’s much talk about returning to “normal.” For millions of workers that means going back to downtown business centers and suburban office parks but make no mistake: the pandemic has left its mark, the new “normal” will be very different from the old one.
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