JUNE 20, 2020

Top Stories

Retail

10 Ways Landlords Can Help Restaurant Tenants Survive Reopening

By Elaine Misonzhnik, Executive Editor

Rent relief is only one measure that can help restaurants stay afloat while facing caps on occupancy. Here are some others.

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Alternative Properties

How Hotels are Trying to Keep Guests and Employees Safe

By Bendix Anderson, Contributing Writer

The hotel industry has been diligent in developing standards to keep guests and employees as safe as possible from the novel coronavirus—but not all of them are doing it.

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Retail

Beauty Retailers Face New Challenges Post-COVID

By Liz Wolf, Contributing Writer

The major beauty chains used to drive customers into stores with promises of free product testing and salon services. How will they adapt to a new world?

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Analysis

Alternative Properties

COVID-19 Accelerates Trend of Millennials Moving from Apartments to SFRs

By Sebastian Obando, Staff Writer

COVID-19 is accelerating demand for single-family rentals, as some renters are feeling a greater desire to get away from the density of cities.

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Finance & Investment

Market Risks, Uncertainty Weigh on CRE-CLO Market

By Beth Mattson-Teig, Contributing Writer

Commercial real estate collateralized loan obligation (CRE-CLO) issuance, which has been largely frozen since the beginning of March, may be starting to thaw, but the sector still faces hurdles to regaining confidence in the face of loan performance risk.

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Retail

Gyms, Theaters, Restaurants Among Retail Tenants Most in Need of Rent Relief

By Sebastian Obando, Staff Writer

Gyms, soft goods retailers, movie theaters and food and beverage businesses are among the hardest hit retailers asking for rent relief from landlords.

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Commentary

Real Estate Services

How Social Media has Changed the Way We Raise Equity

By Adam Gower, Ph.D.

During COVID-19, online is the only effective means to communicate that you actually know what you are talking about.

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Finance & Investment

Somewhere Over the Rainbow: A Guide to Successful Loan Workouts (Part Two)

Susan J. Booth

In part two of a four-part series on loan workouts, Holland & Knight's Susan J. Booth outlines all of a lender's options.

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Podcast

Industrial

NREI's Common Area: Episode 37

By NREI Staff

In this episode of NREI 's Common Area podcast, David Bodamer is joined by Chris Caton, the senior vice president of global strategy and analytics at Prologis, to discuss the state of logistics real estate.

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NREI Wire

MSD Partners Raises $1.1 Billion for Real Estate Credit Bets

Bloomberg

MSD Partners has raised about $1.1 billion for a fund dedicated to bets on structured credit secured by real estate, beating an initial target of $750 million.

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Nine Must Reads for the CRE Industry Today

By NREI Staff

California’s proposed ban on commercial evictions failed to advance, according to Connect California. Both the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times look at whether young people leaving big cities will eventually come back. These are among today’s must reads from around the commercial real estate industry.

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