JANUARY 14, 2021

Top Story

Off-Campus Student Housing Off to a Slow Start for Fall 2021

By Bendix Anderson, Contributing Writer

Pre-leasing levels are lower than normal for privately-run student housing properties for the upcoming academic year.

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Analysis

Institutional Investors Plan to Increase Their CRE Allocations in 2021

By WMRE Staff

The damage caused by COVID-19 has not discouraged interest in more real estate investments.

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Market Trends and Outlook 2021

COVID-19 Accelerates Forces of Creative Destruction in Commercial Real Estate

Podcast

WMRE’s Common Area: The Middle Market CRE Investment Opportunity

By WMRE Staff

Sam Isaacson, president of Walker & Dunlop Investment Partners, talks about the opportunities the firms sees in CRE assets worth less than $100 million. Sponsored by Ryan.

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WMRE Wire

Trump Team’s Final Act on Fannie-Freddie Leaves Fates to Biden

Bloomberg

Last minute revisions by the Trump administration would modify the contracts that govern taxpayers’ backstopping of the GSAs.

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Real Estate Brokerage Cushman Cuts Ties with Trump Organization

Bloomberg

The firm, which handled leasing for multiple Trump Organization properties, follows a similar decision by JLL.

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13 Must Reads for the CRE Industry Today

By WMRE Staff

New research suggests that the COVID-19 economic crisis will cause twice as much homelessness as the Great Recession, reports MarketWatch. Dollar General announced that it will pay its employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19, according to the Wall Street Journal. These are among today’s must reads from around the commercial real estate industry.

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