MBA CREF Associate Director Kelly Hamill interviewed Emily Rasmussen, Managing Director of Business Strategy with Harbor Group Consulting, and George O’Neil III, Managing Director with CW Financial Services LLC, about the insurance market during the coronavirus pandemic.

It’s that time of year again. The annual renewal invoices for your trade association memberships arrive. You think about how you leveraged memberships over the past year but it’s likely that your company could have done more to get the most out of it.

Phillips Realty Capital, Bethesda, Md., secured $63.2 million for a Class A Plano, Texas multifamily property.

Kroll Bond Rating Agency, New York, said the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated many commercial real estate trends already in progress.

Gerald Hines, founder and chairman of real estate firm Hines, passed away peacefully at home on August 23.

The multifamily sector made it through the first half of the year with less turmoil as some anticipated. But the pandemic could create longer-term challenges for the sector, said Phoenix American, San Rafael, Calif.

The U.S. is generally the largest and most liquid region for commercial real estate deal activity, but Europe surpassed the U.S. for investment in the second quarter, reported Real Capital Analytics, New York.

The coronavirus pandemic has put commercial real estate “at a crossroads,” said Yardi Matrix, Santa Barbara, Calif.

Reonomy, New York, said the office sector has avoided the worst of the recession, largely due to underlying characteristics including tenant diversification and longer-term leases. But it called the sector’s outlook “opaque.”