Tag: covid-19

How investment properties in low-income neighborhoods are faring amid COVID-19

COVID-19’s impact on rent collection and other hurdles varies by property type and renter base. For this blog, we asked our brokers how low income housing is faring. Kiser Gr...

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...

Commercial Property Executive: DAILY READS: April 2, 2020

Miami construction continues. Chicago spec industrial demand is healthy. Where are lenders still lending? Here’s a batch of other critical content for you to read, listen to or wat...

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...