Tag: Featured
Tag: Featured
For the multifamily housing industry, 2022 is here. Along with the new year, there’s a hope for better times as well as a need to clean-up unfinished business.
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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.
The focus on Environmental, Social and Governance principles drives value for a long list of stakeholders, including commercial real estate investors.
As a corporate priority, companies are now making tangible moves to create value through Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG). But what does it really mean beyond the buzzwords and terminology? In KBS’ three-part series, we’ll take a deep dive into each element of ESG — and its strategic application to the commercial real estate industry (CRE).
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) are pillars of a company’s standards, priorities, and ideals. ESG has also been defined as a set of criteria investors use to keep their portfolios as socially responsible as possible. The rate in which worldwide investors are screening for ESG commitment when contemplating potential investments is increasing exponentially, and there’s no denying its growing influence on the way in which companies choose to do business.
The office landscape and workforce has seen a dramatic transformation in the last decade: open layouts replaced large cubicle footprints; daily work schedules are less “scheduled” and more digital and flexible; and in-person assemblies are now virtual gatherings. Leading this charge is technology.
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.
Technology has clearly changed the way we shop. It’s even largely credited with saving retail brands during the pandemic. Despite the ease and convenience of buying online and through mobile devices, however, Q3 of 2021 saw 87% of consumer sales take place in brick-and-mortar stores.
The pandemic fundamentally changed the way the commercial real estate (CRE) community considered investing in the retail sector. As Covid-19 took hold, it appeared like retail was down for the count.
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.
Even before the coronavirus pandemic, the retail world was changing. While COVID-19 was instrumental in accelerating that change, a combination of working from home, government stimulus money and an abundance of spare time all combined to spin e-commerce into a maelstrom that’s still powering the upward trajectory of warehouse rates and industrial commercial real estate values.
A lot of buzz is being generated these days around the importance of sustainability. So much so, that headline-grabbing efforts, including the rise of environmental activism and the surge in climate-change advocacy, have inspired builders and tenants to strive for greater energy efficiency. It’s a trend that continues to gain crucial momentum.
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.”
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.
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.
