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JUNE 23, 2020

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Finance & Investment

Bringing Impact Investing to CRE

Real estate development often has received a bad rap—in many cases justified—for leading to gentrification and displacement of residents. Projects that are often wildly successful at delivering returns end up fundamentally transforming communities rather than uplifting them. Former New York City Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen has launched a platform aimed at changing that.

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Analysis

Technology

VC Funding of Proptech Firms Has Dropped. That May Be Temporary

Venture capital funding of U.S. proptech companies dropped by 69 percent in the first quarter of 2020 compared to a year earlier. But the drop may prove to be a hiccup, rather than a staying trend. “I think it’s more reflective of a temporary, or what we anticipate to be a temporary, drop in investment activity overall in the venture world,” says Zak Schwarzman, partner at MetaProp, a New York-based venture capital firm focused on the real estate technology industry.

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Podcast

Finance & Investment

NREI's Common Area, Episode 37

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. They discuss how the world's logistical supply chain of the essential industries has outperformed during this lockdown period and where logistics real estate is heading for the foreseeable future.

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NREI Wire

Can Independent Bookstores Survive Covid-19?: Timothy L. O'Brien

The pandemic has crushed independent booksellers so ferociously, their futures are as precarious as they’ve ever been.

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Sales of Previously Owned U.S. Homes Fall to Lowest Since 2010

Sales closings fell by 9.7 percent in May compared to April, according to the NAR data.

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11 Must Reads for the CRE Industry Today

Blackstone's Stephen Schwarzman predicts a V-shaped recovery this summer, reports Bloomberg. Many companies kept office workers at home as New York City entered phase 2 of reopening, according to The New York Times. These are among today’s must reads from around the commercial real estate industry.

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