Real Estate Investment Trusts

Despite in-person class policies that vary across the country, on paper occupancies at many off campus student housing properties remains high. That’s not helping deals go through, however.

Hotel owners are turning their properties into offices and schools, among other uses, reports The New York Times. The Wall Street Journal looks at ways the retail sector has changed since the onset of the pandemic. These are among today’s must reads from around the commercial real estate industry.

Homebound Inc. wants to help California communities rebuild, but safer, with resilient materials and barriers to buffer fires.

The Wall Street Journal looks at the different impacts the pandemic has had across the U.S. economy. Seventeen more retail chains that could go bankrupt, according to the Retail Dive. These are among today’s must reads from around the commercial real estate industry.

It’s the latest sign of how the pandemic and the related decline in office workers and tourists has hobbled city businesses.

Retail giant Amazon.com came under fire after reporting that almost 20,000 of its frontline workers, including from subsidiary Whole Foods Market, have been infected with COVID-19.

The transaction is being referred to as a “resecuritization” in deal documents seen by Bloomberg.

Kris Ferranti, of Sherman & Sterling LLP, says attractive investment opportunities have become more common in recent months.

A report from RentCafe looks at which types of properties developers have most often repurposed as apartments.

Sporting-goods chain Academy Sports and Outdoors has priced its IPO below the originally expected range, reports the Wall Street Journal. Naked Capitalism looks at the direction of rents in multiple cities. These are today’s must reads from around the commercial real estate industry.