Investment
No real estate sector has been hit as hard by the pandemic as retail. Shortened leases, struggling tenants, and protracted lockdowns created a recipe... Read More
In 1995, two groups of developers in Sweden and Switzerland banded together to build an entire planet online, one that would be used as... Read More
If you study real estate valuation for long enough you start to hear grumblings about the German property valuation method. Germany is part of the European Union but Germans were apparently not satisfied with how the rest of the world calculates the book value of real property. Instead, they have chosen a more complicated and more regulated approach to real... Read More
To put it simply, the pandemic blew the lid off of the traditional. No one expected to spend Thanksgiving dinner gathered around a laptop... Read More
Currently, the value of AMC’s stock is more than double the entire movie theater industry’s 2019 domestic box office ticket sales. A rebounding economy... Read More
Real estate is universal. We all need buildings to live, work, and play in. But the industry of real estate differs depending on geography, law, culture, and customs. One clear example of this is how the property industry operates in many areas of the Muslim world. The process is made more complex because Islamic religious laws, called Sharia, which have... Read More
One of the many effects of the pandemic is that people are increasingly moving back in with their parents. A recent Pew Research Center... Read More
New Year, New Use
The alternative data sources investors are using to identify new uses for properties
Alternative data sources can answer many questions around adaptive reuse and redeveloping properties after the pandemic. Read More
The Zombie-Loan Invasion
The non-performing loan market will see more distressed CRE debt
“In these unprecedented times” has to be one of the most used phrases since the pandemic began—and for good reason. The changes we’ve seen have influenced everything from the smallest of daily activities to the largest of global economies. But even as we start to get back to precedented times, one of the lasting repercussions of the year of quarantine... Read More
It seems like every day a new company announces that they will be returning to the office. But even when they do return, it... Read More
For better or for worse, much of the world of commercial real estate is insulated from the wild antics of ‘retail traders’ causing chaos... Read More
The pandemic has turned the commercial real estate world upside-down. Large, trophy assets like condo and office towers have seen a decline in investor interest and therefor value. At the same time, some of the smallest assets into its heaviest hitters. While practically every commercial sector suffers, single tenant triple net leases (STNL) are riding the strongest fundamentals in years.... Read More
