Originally published by Matt Richtel on May 28, 2020 for The New York Times.
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Date: Thursday, June 11, 2020
Time: 2:00PM/EDT
The economic disruptions from COVID-19 have had significant impact on the credit quality of tenants, building occupancy and demand from buyers, resulting in substantial uncertainty in the valuation of commercial real estate and complexity in the accounting for lease modifications. John Thomas, CEO of Physicians Realty Trust, and Dennis Power, CFO of the Opus Group, will share their experiences with tenant collections, lease concessions, market demand, and the resulting impacts on real estate valuation across their market niches. Brent Maier will provide his view on the impacts he has seen in his role as the leader of Baker Tilly’s real estate transaction advisory services team while Mike Kamienski and David Jamiolkowski, also from Baker Tilly, will share their view of how these issues will impact financial reporting from a real estate impairment and lease accounting perspective. Don’t miss this discussion of critical topics so you understand the valuation and leasing impacts from COVID-19.
Speakers:
Mike Kamienski, Partner, CPA, Baker Tilly
David Jamiolkowski, Partner, CPA, Baker Tilly
Brent Maier, Managing Director, Baker Tilly
Dennis Power, CFO, Opus Group
John Thomas, CEO, Physicians Realty Trust
The collapse of WeWork’s $47 billion valuation was the most exciting real estate story of 2019. Landlords, lenders, customers and competitors watched in awe as the company crashed into a wall of scrutiny and ridicule. In 2020, Airbnb might offer a similar spectacle, with a $35 billion valuation and a growing number of questions about the company’s long-term prospects.
What propels both companies? The changing needs of end users and the growing appetite of venture capital investors to disrupt the way real estate assets are operated and transacted. Both trends will keep transforming the industry, regardless of the struggles of WeWork or Airbnb.
The global economy is awash in capital. According to data from PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association, venture capital investments reached an all-time high of $131 billion in 2018, exceeding the heyday of the dot-com bubble. Elsewhere in the financial world, the amount of capital available to institutional money managers is also at an all-time high, according to data from Preqin and Ernst & Young.
In theory, investors only want to fund “real” tech companies that have high margins, can scale quickly and operate in industries that are easy to disrupt. In practice, the industries that could be easily transformed by technology — media, business processes, financial brokerages — have already been transformed. As a result, investors are venturing further up the risk curve, seeking out companies that want to disrupt other, more challenging industries such as real estate, health care and mobility.
The NAIOP Research Foundation has published the NAIOP Office Space Demand Forecast for Q2 2020.
Key Takeaways:
Originally published by Dror Poleg for the 2020 Spring Issue.
The collapse of WeWork’s $47 billion valuation was the most exciting real estate story of 2019. Landlords, lenders, customers and competitors watched in awe as the company crashed into a wall of scrutiny and ridicule. In 2020, Airbnb might offer a similar spectacle, with a $35 billion valuation and a growing number of questions about the company’s long-term prospects.
What propels both companies? The changing needs of end users and the growing appetite of venture capital investors to disrupt the way real estate assets are operated and transacted. Both trends will keep transforming the industry, regardless of the struggles of WeWork or Airbnb.
Date: Thursday, June 11, 2020
Time: 2:00 PM/EDT
The economic disruptions from COVID-19 have had significant impact on the credit quality of tenants, building occupancy and demand from buyers, resulting in substantial uncertainty in the valuation of commercial real estate and complexity in the accounting for lease modifications. John Thomas, CEO of Physicians Realty Trust, and Dennis Power, CFO of the Opus Group, will share their experiences with tenant collections, lease concessions, market demand, and the resulting impacts on real estate valuation across their market niches. Brent Maier will provide his view on the impacts he has seen in his role as the leader of Baker Tilly’s real estate transaction advisory services team while Mike Kamienski and David Jamiolkowski, also from Baker Tilly, will share their view of how these issues will impact financial reporting from a real estate impairment and lease accounting perspective. Don’t miss this discussion of critical topics so you understand the valuation and leasing impacts from COVID-19.
Speakers:
Mike Kamienski, Partner, CPA, Baker Tilly
David Jamiolkowski, Partner, CPA, Baker Tilly
Brent Maier, Managing Director, Baker Tilly
Dennis Power, CFO, Opus Group
John Thomas, CEO, Physicians Realty Trust
Date: Tuesday, June 23, 2020 - Thursday, June 25, 2020
Where: Online
NAIOP's can't-miss industrial conference is going virtual!
This online conference, focused specifically on industrial real estate, will provide the critical knowledge you need – now more than ever – to keep you ahead of the curve and prepared for the post COVID-19 environment. While the delivery method has changed, the quality content and caliber of speakers are the same.
I.CON Virtual will be presented in afternoon sessions over three days. In between each session, you’ll enjoy robust networking using our video platform – as close to face-to-face as we can make it during a time of social distancing!
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NAIOP is proud to honor up-and-coming commercial real estate professionals, 35 years of age and under, for their valued contributions and commitment to the industry with the annual Developing Leaders Award. The award is presented to those who have shown exemplary achievements and demonstrated outstanding professional accomplishments in the commercial real estate industry.
Nominations are now being accepted for the 2020 NAIOP Developing Leaders Award.
Deadline: June 26, 2020
NAIOP would like to hear from its members on your outlook for NAIOP events in 2020, both those hosted by NAIOP Corporate and those presented locally by chapters. Check your email for the survey invitation (sent May 27 and May 31) and complete the survey by Friday, June 5.
Join NAIOP Developing Leaders on Wednesday, June 3rd for a special webinar to talk with your peers about today’s COVID-driven climate and how its impacting our industry and your careers. Four DLs from the office, industrial and acquisitions sectors will take your questions, talk about how their companies are handling the pandemic’s effects, and how they believe it will reshape careers and the ways we do business. This is an exclusive program for NAIOP Developing Leaders only.
Moderator:
Kaitlin Goetzman, Senior Associate, Investments, The Brookdale Group
Speakers:
Greg Boler, Vice President Development, Transwestern Development, Logistics Group
Dallas Margeson, Associate, Office Leasing, Transwestern
Kelsey Perrin, Vice President, Heitman
Originally published on May 19, 2020 by Paul Letourneau
One doesn’t have to look far to see the immediate impact of the novel coronavirus on commercial property markets. Across the U.S., millions of white-collar workers are now working from home, stores and restaurants have closed their doors, and nearly 17 million Americans filed for unemployment insurance in the first three weeks after the pandemic began shutting down cities. Nearly one-third of apartment dwellers didn’t pay their rent in the first week of April, in addition to the countless retailers and hotel companies that are unable to make their lease or mortgage payments.
As lenders and investors grapple with these urgent challenges, many economists and industry experts are asking whether today’s social distancing measures will have lasting impacts. From a lender’s perspective, we’re already evaluating deals through a new lens. The aftermath remains unseen, but the current environment is raising several important questions about the future of all asset classes, including multifamily, office, retail and industrial.
Originally published on May 19, 2020 by Brielle Scott
There is no doubt COVID-19 has accelerated the already changing nature of commerce and work and introduced a new layer of considerations for commercial real estate development.
Prior to the outbreak, we saw e-commerce’s exponential trajectory, increased demand for immediate goods, and the rise of urban industrial development to fulfill last-mile needs. All of these factors have created the now-accelerated need for more urbanized solutions and the inclusion of a better-integrated workforce. The emergent need for a more resilient, reliable and reconfigurable supply chain that is more locally grounded will drive this change even further.
In a recent webinar exclusive to National Forums members, KSS Architects Partner Ed Klimek, AIA, NCARB, discussed how industrial and office development can respond to these changes in order to bring the most value in a post-COVID-19 world.
Originally published on May 22, 2020 by Jennifer LeFurgy, Ph.D.
Economist Douglas Holtz-Eakin Gives his Take on the U.S. Economy and the Government’s Unparalleled Response
The global coronavirus pandemic has wreaked havoc on the U.S. economy and caused disruptions of historic proportions. “We’re facing a very different crisis than the one in 2008, which was essentially man-made,” said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Ph.D., an academic policy advisor, strategist and president of the American Action Forum, during a recent NAIOP Forums Exclusive webinar. “This is a completely different phenomenon.”
Holtz-Eakin noted the swiftness of the pandemic’s effects on the U.S. economy, citing record unemployment and the contraction of GDP by 4.8 percent in the first quarter of 2020. However, for the most part, he praised the federal response. He stated the Federal Reserve reacted appropriately to the crisis by essentially injecting cash back into the economy through its lending programs. “The Fed’s actions insulated the financial markets from the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic. Banks and other financial entities that have performed remarkably well in this environment and are well-capitalized and capable of executing their basic missions,” he said. “That wouldn’t have happened without the very, very strong, response from the Federal Reserve.”
Originally published on May 20, 2020 by Alex Ford
As states begin to slowly reopen their economies, governments, businesses and the public as a whole are contemplating what a post-coronavirus America will look like. Some aspects of this “new normal” – such as limited capacity requirements in public spaces and stricter sanitation mandates, to name a few – are already taking shape. But with a cure potentially months or years away, who bears responsibility if a customer or employee contracts the virus? The question is yet another example of the unprecedented times in which we are living, and has emerged as a key wedge issue among various stakeholders.
At the federal level, debate over the next coronavirus relief package has centered on the inclusion of liability protection for businesses. “Companies doing their best to control the spread of this disease with the limited guidance available deserve legal protection. Congress should not allow good actors to be held liable for events beyond their control,” a group of more than 200 business associations and trade groups wrote in a letter to congressional leadership this month.
Join NAIOP Charlotte on Monday, June 1st at 12:00 pm as we learn about the quickly changing landscape at the federal and state levels in this legislative update. This Lunch with a Leader offers discussions on issues related to commercial estate development and around efforts to get the economy moving. Our special guests include:
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| Congressman Dan Bishop US House 9th District |
Speaker Tim Moore NC House 111th District |
Representative Jason Saine NC House 97th District |
Social distancing hasn’t stopped NAIOP Charlotte members from getting together (virtually) to continue to engage, learn, and socialize. Below are highlights from several recent member only events. A special thank you to our 2020 Cornerstone Sponsors. With their support, NAIOP Charlotte has been able to keep the conversations and information flowing during our time of social distancing.
March LWAL: Our first virtual Lunch with a Leader featured Taiwo Jaiyeoba and Alyson Craig from the City of Charlotte. Jaiyeobe and Craig shared how the city is adjusting to COVID-19 and keeping commercial development moving forward to maintain a healthy region. If you were not able to participate in the webinar and would like to listen, click here to access the recording.
April DL Happy Hour: Our Developing Leaders are staying in touch and gathered via Zoom for a Friday afternoon Happy Hour last month. Ram Realty Services’ Rachel Krenz led a discussion on the developments in South End and later the conversation turned to how everyone is keeping busy during quarantine, recently watched shows and movies, and ideas about future DL events once mingling in person is possible.
April LWAL: Last month, our Lunch with a Leader featured a panel of NAIOP Charlotte Board Members who shared perspectives on the commercial development market during the COVID-19 crisis. Panelists included Tom Coyle, Childress Klein; Alyson Craig, City of Charlotte; Steve McClure, Spectrum Companies; Patrick Pierce, Selwyn Property Group; and Chris Thomas, Childress Klein., Click here to access the recording.
