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Industry Trends

How Smart Buildings Are Changing Commercial Real Estate

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.
Industry Trends Sustainability

Commercial Real Estate Sustainability Trends in 2021

Sustainability continues to be a top priority for leaders across the globe, including newly elected U.S. President Joe Biden who has taken a whole-of-government approach to combating the ongoing climate crisis. In January 2021, Biden announced a series of executive orders, including his international and domestic climate change agenda that calls for investing in renewable and clean energy, rejoining the Paris Agreement, and achieving a net-zero emission economy by 2050. Nothing specific in these executive orders appear to point to the commercial real estate sector, but as plans are set in motion these actions will likely set a broader precedent for all industries. Here are some trends to look for as it relates to office:
Industry Trends

A Safe and Healthy Return to Work: A Roadmap for Building Re-Occupancy

For the first time it appears that the grip of the COVID-19 pandemic has begun to loosen. Hospitalizations and fatalities are down substantially from the highs seen in late 2020 and early 2021, and as a result it’s become possible to think in terms of a post-pandemic world.
Industry Trends Sustainability

Urban Beekeeping: Where Sustainability Becomes an Amenity

Urban apiaries—yes, urban beehives—are popping up on office building rooftops across the country, and are creating quite a buzz (no pun intended).
Industry Trends

Returning to the Office Post-COVID

The long history of real estate ownership has always involved risk management. But now -- with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic -- there’s a need to re-examine the critical importance of risk management as it relates to commercial real estate.
Educational

What is Real Estate Risk Management?

The long history of real estate ownership has always involved risk management. But now -- with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic -- there’s a need to re-examine the critical importance of risk management as it relates to commercial real estate.
Economic Trends

Moving the Net Operating Income (NOI) Needle with Sustainable Real Estate

The sustainable real estate market continues to expand by impressive proportions.
Economic Trends

Can Ultra-low Commercial Real Estate Interest Rates Go Even Lower?

Current real estate interest rates are in free-fall, now at depths never seen in the US. We can blame the COVID-19 pandemic in part for today’s ultra-low interest rates, but the reality is that rates have largely been in decline since the 1980s. It hasn’t been a straight line down, but the general trend has been lower and lower rates over time.
Industry Trends

Companies Should Embrace the Great Pause to Analyze Real Estate Usage

The economic disruption caused by COVID-19 will require many companies to revise their short- and long-term business plans, which is likely to impact current and future real estate needs. For some occupiers, market trends could lead to a temporary or permanent expansion; for others, a reduction or consolidation of space may be warranted.
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