Tag: coronavirus

Advice For CRE Brokers: Working Through A Market Downturn

Lee Kiser is a multifamily expert, active broker and Principal of Kiser Group, Chicagoland’s leading mid-market multifamily brokerage firm. Savings and loan crisis, Gulf...

How are apartment owners adapting to COVID-19 related changes? Rent support, investor concerns, property management

This is the most frequent question our brokers are being asked. We’ve been communicating with Chicagoland apartment owners, checking in to see how they are doing and to learn...

Multifamily Brokerage Amid COVID-19 – Kiser Group’s Brokers Share What They Are Experiencing In the Market

From listing to marketing to showings to escrows to closing, multifamily brokerage is different than it was in early March. Kiser Group’s Noah Birk, Aaron Sklar, Matt Halper, Danny...

Why A Rent Strike Does More Harm Than Good

Most renters think their rent payment goes directly into their landlord’s pocket, so a rent strike might seem like a good idea; afterall, why should a landlord make all that money...

REJournals: Doing business in the new normal: CRE pros adjusting to life during COVID-19

As governors across the country continue to issue shelter-in-place orders, the commercial real estate industry is shifting to work-from-home mode. Brokers and developers are settin...

REJournals: Known unknowns: The pandemic creates a murky future for multifamily

Even as this cycle grew impossibly long, the velocity of multifamily deals only seemed to quicken. However, that very term, “this” cycle, may be a misnomer—it might in fact be “tha...

REJournals: Working from home? Show us your space!

NOAH BIRK, PRINCIPAL WITH CHICAGO’S KISER GROUP, WORKS WITH HIS TWO YOUNG ASSISTANTS. AS BIRK SAYS, “HAVING A 2-YEAR-OLD PERSONAL ASSISTANT ‘HELP’ WITH EVER...