FEBRUARY 15, 2020

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Retail

By Liz Wolf, Contributing Writer

Two esteemed retail real estate families see a brighter future ahead with Taubman’s smaller portfolio of high-quality centers benefiting from Simon’s scale in the marketplace.

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Finance & Investment

Takeaways from the MBA CREF 2020 Conference, Day One

By Elaine Misonzhnik, Executive Editor

This week kicked off the annual Mortgage Bankers Association/Commercial Real Estate Finance conference in San Diego. Among the hot topics discussed during Monday’s panel sessions were the rising volume of collateral debt obligations (CLO), the impact of rent regulations on multifamily lending and whether proptech is going to make commercial mortgage bankers obsolete.

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Finance & Investment

Nine Takeaways from the MBA CREF 2020 Conference, Day Two

By Elaine Misonzhnik, Executive Editor

Tuesday’s panel discussions at MBA CREF 2020 in San Diego focused on how lenders are trying to mitigate risk in the late stage of a prolonged cycle, the market for construction financing and more insights on how proptech might be changing the business.

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Analysis

Alternative Properties

Despite Warning Signs, Hotel Developers Plow Ahead with New Projects.

By Bendix Anderson, Contributing Writer

Once again, the bond markets flashed a major warning sign in February that the long economic expansion may soon end in a recession. But hotel developers—looking at other economic indicators and strong industry fundamentals—see strong demand and are plowing ahead with construction on new hotel projects. In fact, developers now have more new hotel rooms under construction than any other time in the last decade.

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Real Estate Services

Data Security Has Become a Pressing Issue for the CRE Sector

By Sebastian Obando, Staff Writer

There’s an ever-growing volume of commercial real estate industry business being conducted online. Terrabytes of documents and data get swapped and more sensitive information than ever is archived in cloud storage. Such information provides juicy targets for hackers and identity thieves, making data security a growing issue for the sector.

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Real Estate Services

Are CRE Players Finally Adapting Proptech Solutions? New Survey Seems to Indicate So

By Patricia Kirk, Contributing Writer

The commercial real estate industry has been slower than most other sectors to embrace technology, but over the last couple years the impact of proptech has gained momentum and has now reached a tipping point that makes disruption to traditional processes inevitable. Industry leaders are exploring how to take advantage of proptech to solve challenges in marketing, due diligence and property management, according to the recently released Altus Group 2020 CRE Innovation Report.

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NREI Wire

Macy’s Herald Square Skyscraper Project Faces Tough Road Ahead

Bloomberg

Macy’s Inc. faces a difficult road as it dives into New York City real estate development.

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