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JUNE 1, 2020

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Finance & Investment

Seven CRE Economists Offer Their Advice and Predictions for the Sector

By Elaine Misonzhnik, Executive Editor4

As we move into the summer months, there are still a lot of unknowns around how the COVID-19 pandemic will play out, including how much worse the first wave of infections is going to get, whether there will be a second wave in the fall and how soon we might expect some type of vaccine or effective treatment. We asked seven commercial real estate executives with backgrounds in research and economics to offer their outlooks on what the current situation might mean for real estate investors.

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Analysis

Retail

How Are Mall REITs Trying to Survive?

By John Egan, Contributing Writer

Reacting to the coronavirus-initiated closures of their properties, mall REITs furloughed or laid off employees, slashed executive pay, chopped expenses and scrubbed development projects to staunch the financial bleeding. Yet those immediate measures won’t preserve the lifeblood of mall REITs as they open their doors again.

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Commentary

How the Digital Marketplace Has Changed the Way We Make Decisions

By Adam Gower, Ph.D., Contributing Columnist

It has long been said that in order to catch a lot of fish, you need to have a lot of lines in the water—within the broader context of digital marketing and raising funds for real estate projects online, this old cliché undoubtedly remains true and even more so during times of crisis.

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NREI Wire

Protests Hammer U.S. Cities Still Recovering From Lockdown

Bloomberg

The scenes of burning cars, looting, and violent arrests by baton-wielding police could reverse gains that business owners were making to lure back customers.

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Toronto’s Underground City Faces Bleak Future With Bankers MIA

Bloomberg

To get an idea of the long recovery ahead for Toronto’s financial district, take a walk through the vast subterranean pathways that connect the city’s skyscrapers. Covid-19 has turned the food court under the Brookfield Place office complex into a ghost town. 

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11 Must Reads for the CRE Industry Today

NREI Staff

Intense protests around the United States against police brutality that featured sporadic looting forced retailers that had been reopening from COVID-19 shutdowns to close back down again, reported Reuters. Meanwhile, a major retail federation has been pushing for governmental aid top help companies survive, according to the Washington Post. And the Wall Street Journal explored how the future of movie theaters is in doubt amid the continuing pandemic. These are among today’s must reads from around the commercial real estate industry.

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