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MAY 2, 2020

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Biotech

Life Sciences Might Be the “Least Disrupted” CRE Sector

In the midst of a pandemic, demand remains strong for  life science buildings in major metropolitan areas, according to industry experts.

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Multifamily

Lease Insurance Could Come into Play Amid COVID Crisis

Many apartment renters are working with landlords by making partial payments and creating payments plans. But another aspect of the industry is being tested by the crisis: rental insurance products that have replaced security deposits for some renters.

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Alternative Properties

Co-Living Was Built Around Sharing Living Spaces with Strangers. Will It Survive Through a Pandemic?

Before the coronavirus hit, co-living projects were attracting  more and more investor money. Now, as public officials continue to encourage social distancing, questions are rising about whether residents in co-living buildings can even follow these guidelines, as they share communal spaces and sometimes even bedrooms. NREI spoke with Gregg Christiansen, president of Ollie, a co-living operator, about the state of the co-living industry and  how the sector has been responding to the pandemic.

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Analysis

Finance & Investment

CREFC’s Pendergast Highlights CMBS Outlook

NREI spoke with Lisa Pendergast, executive director at CREFC, about how this cycle might look compared to the Great Recession.

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Real Estate Services

How Can CRE Professionals Ensure Data Security Amid Lockdowns?

Data security  was already a growing issue for commercial real estate professionals before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Now, with two-thirds of the U.S. workforce working from home, including  most of the commercial real estate industry, it has taken up a new importance.

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Finance & Investment

Newly Launched Net Lease Platform Aims to Serve “Overlooked” Market

Even before the pandemic threatened lives and livelihoods around the world, Phoenix-based investment firm Fundamental Income Strategies LLC had planned to roll out a net lease investment platform. Despite the pandemic—and even emboldened by it—the firm launched its Fundamental Income Properties LLC platform  on April 22.

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Commentary

Seniors Housing

Forgotten Frontline Workers at Seniors Housing Properties Need Support

Healthcare workers who care for residents in both seniors housing and skilled nursing properties are often the very first line of defense to protect residents and patients from COVID-19. Hospitals are not the only places where frontline healthcare workers are risking their lives.

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Gallery

Finance & Investment

What Working from Home Looks Like for CRE Pros

As most of the country remains under shelter-in-place orders, the commercial real estate industry has been no different. We asked industry members to send us photos of what their new professional lives looked like. Turns out working from home requires some of the same skills as working in an office--from learning to tolerate your desk neighbors' puzzling quirks to showing up for team meetings to finding outfits that look both polished and comfortable. In the following slides, we show how readers are approaching those issues.

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Podcast

Finance & Investment

NREI's Common Area, Episode 33

In this episode of NREI's Common Area Podcast, David Bodamer is recording safely from his home and has a guest on the line: Charles Krawitz, vice president and head of commercial lending at Alliant Credit Union. The two discussed how the lockdown is affecting commercial borrowers.

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NREI Wire

J.C. Penney, Lenders Struggle to Find Assets to Back Fresh Loan

J.C. Penney Co. and the lenders it’s asking to finance a potential bankruptcy are struggling to find sufficient company assets to secure the additional debt, according to people familiar with the search.

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Seven Must Reads for the CRE Industry Today

May might bring more missed rents for apartment landlords as unemployed Americans run out of funds and some tenants’ rights groups call on the government to cancel rent, according to The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Kimco plans to introduce curbside pickup at its shopping centers throughout the country, reports Chain Store Age. These are among today’s must reads from around the commercial real estate industry.

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