FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Top Stories

Multifamily

By Bendix Anderson, Contributing Writer

After two decades helming the group, Doug Bibby announced last week that he would step down as president of the National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC) effective January 2021. NREI talked with Bibby about his 20 years at the top of NMHC and how the organization has changed the business.

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Finance & Investment

Will U.S. REITs Feel the Impact of the Coronavirus Outbreak?

By John Egan, Contributing Writer

As the China-born coronavirus outbreak continues to spread and claim more lives, commercial real estate professionals are pondering how the epidemic might affect publicly-traded U.S. REITs. There’s no firm consensus, so far, about the outbreak’s potential impact on the sector.

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Industrial

Highlights from Cushman & Wakefield’s North American Industrial Outlook

Industrial has arguably been the hottest commercial real estate sector in recent years. And signs point to that run continuing at least in the short term of the next two years. C&W forecasts North American industrial absorption in 2020-2021 will be a healthy 459.9 million sq. ft.

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Analysis

Retail

Macy’s Will Be Closing 125 Stores. How Bad Is This News for the Regional Mall Sector?

By NREI Staff

We spoke with Barbara Byrne Denham, senior economist with Moody’s Analytics REIS, about the potential impact of the Macy's closings on the regional mall sector.

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Finance & Investment

Nine Takeaways from Ariel Property Advisors’ Coffee & Cap Rates Event

By Sebastian Obando, Staff Writer

Around 150 professionals in the commercial real estate industry attended Ariel Property Advisor’s semi-annual Coffee & Cap Rates meeting at the Club 101 in New York City on Thursday. Here are the main takeaways from the event:

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Retail

Is Simon and Brookfield’s Forever 21 Buy a Smart Play or a Hail Mary Pass?

By NREI Staff

Regional mall REITs have some experience in saving ailing retailers. But Forever 21 comes with added pressures.

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Digital Edition

Maximizing Deductions

By NREI Staff

Take a look at why you may want to do a cost segregation study on your property or industry economists' outlooks for the year ahead. Read these and other stories in the January/February 2020 issue of NREI.

NREI Wire

Penn Station Stinks, But the Neighborhood Is Looking Up

Bloomberg

New York City has for decades talked about improving the neighborhood around antiquated Pennsylvania Station with the kind of development that’s invigorated other parts of Manhattan. Real estate billionaire Steven Roth is finally seizing the moment.

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