Urban resilience in an era of remote work

The history of urban living is long and winding. In early civilizations, density served to provide protection from invading forces. Maritime trade prompted a clustering of sailors, shipbuilders and financiers. And economies of scale brought factories together to share labor, intermediate inputs and shipping infrastructure during the Industrial Revolution. By the 20th century, however, many […]

International Investments: Germany

Germany’s investors appeared to lose some interest in the U.S. commercial real estate market in 2021, with Europe’s largest economy falling out of the top five investor countries in the U.S. Germany placed second in 2019 and third in 2020 among foreign sources of capital into America. Last year, however, Germany fell to sixth place […]

The recovering hospitality sector is full of surprises

Anyone who has waded into the throngs of travelers at the airport or fought to find a reservation near Disneyland this summer knows that the hospitality sector is back and almost as crowded ever. At the end of June 2022, the hospitality sector had survived the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic era and was within […]