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November 29, 2022

This Recession Could Be The Making Of You

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Recessions are bad for countries, bad for sectors, bad for companies — but they don’t have to be bad for your career.

Times of turmoil throw up opportunities to shine that may not arise in a more benign economic environment, the more than 400 delegates who attended Bisnow’s Women Leading Real Estate event in London heard. 

“Moments like this, moments of dislocation in the market create huge opportunities,” Canary Wharf Group Chief Financial Officer Becky Worthington told the audience at the Porchester Hall in London.

“The risk is not taking a risk. The downside is negligible — if something goes wrong, you lose your job, you go and get another one. Honestly, it's not that bad. There’s the old phrase, fortune favours the bold. And when it comes to your career, I'm absolutely sure that's the case.”

This Recession Could Be The Making Of You

A survey of fund managers undertaken last week by Bank of America Merrill Lynch found a net 77% thought that a global recession is likely. And the sharp rise in interest rates introduced by central banks in the UK and U.S. means that real estate is…

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CRE Could See New Funding From $4.2B Environmental Bonds Act

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Earlier this month, roughly 68% of voters in New York voted to approve a ballot measure that will allocate billions of dollars for climate spending.

Proposition 1, or the Environmental Bonds Act, will see the state sell off $4.2B in government bonds to fund an array of projects designed to increase climate resiliency throughout the state. While the majority of that sum has already been allocated, experts told Bisnow that the EBA also holds huge potential for commercial real estate players.

“I believe that this is a really great opportunity for commercial real estate,” said Laurie Schoeman, director of climate and sustainability capital at Enterprise Community Partners. “Particularly commercial housing, because multifamily housing helps to hit many of the points that the bill — the bond — is trying to get at.”

New York’s climate risk is high. Every county in the state had at least two flooding disasters between 2011 and 2019, while 60% had five or more, according to data measured by Rebuild By Design, an organization that works with state governments to create climate disaster preparedness strategies…

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Investors Boost OZ Equity By Nearly $10B This Year As Clock Ticks Down

Investors Boost OZ Equity By Nearly $10B This Year As Clock Ticks Down  

Midway through the life cycle of the federal opportunity zone program, investors are pouring money into projects in the zones at a faster clip than at any point so far in the program's short life, trying to capitalize on the benefits while they can and mitigate some of the financial impact of macroeconomic downdrafts.

Nearly five years after the opportunity zone program was created by the 185-page Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, and three years after its regulations were finalized, opportunity zones have attracted perhaps as much as $100B in investment capital, much of it for real estate development. Qualified opportunity funds, or QOFs, tracked by consultant Novogradac, are on pace to end 2022 with a $10B increase in equity, the largest single-year increase on record.

More is to come. Investors continue to be interested in the program, despite stalled reform efforts, economic headwinds and its expiration, which is still scheduled for the end of 2026.

"I anticipate an uptick in OZ activity in 2024 and 2025, as liquidity starts to free up and investors look to take advantage of program benefits while they still can," Banyan Residential partner Max Friedman said. But in the short term, he expects the turbulent economic climate will have an impact, reducing…

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Black Friday Retail May Never Return To ‘Former Glory’ As Online Sales Best Brick-And-Mortar For Another Year

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Despite high hopes of a brick-and-mortar revival, preliminary foot traffic reports show Black Friday 2022 brought in fewer shoppers than last year even as online sales grew to new heights.

Reports from several organizations tracking shopping activity show that while in-person retail outlets tripled their average daily traffic during the annual pre-holiday shop-a-thon, that trailed expectations, given hopes the ebbing of pandemic-related fears would draw customers in droves. Yet consumers weren't exactly pinching pennies even if they mostly stayed home. Despite…

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