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August 31, 2023

U-Turn Permitted: Companies Rethinking Office Abandonment After RTO Mandates

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With more businesses implementing return-to-office mandates and adding more teeth to those they have in place, some of the country’s best-known companies are doing something large enterprises don’t like to do: They’re reversing course.

It’s not the full-fledged return to the office that many landlords and brokers have in mind as they mark the fourth Labor Day weekend — annually pointed to as a date by which workers will come back to their desks — since the pandemic cleared out offices in early 2020. It is instead a trickle of companies that abandoned office space in the last few years changing their minds.

U-Turn Permitted: Companies Rethinking Office Abandonment After RTO Mandates

“At a macro level, we've seen office shrinkage over the last four quarters, but when you get to the micro level, companies may have shrunk their portfolio too quickly or specific offices too much, and they're now rethinking how much space they need,” Cushman & Wakefield Global Head of Occupier…

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As Hurricane Idalia Deluges Florida, Property Insurance Exposure Exceeds $238B

More than 800,000 residences were in the direct path of Hurricane Idalia as the Category 3 storm bore down on Florida’s Gulf Coast Wednesday, and state officials say they are keeping a watchful eye on insurance carriers even before claims begin to roll in. 

As Hurricane Idalia Deluges Florida, Property Insurance Exposure Exceeds $238B

Idalia’s arrival in the early hours of Wednesday morning threatened storm surge damage to 808,321 single-family and multifamily homes with a combined reconstruction cost of $238.4B, according to a CoreLogic analysis. The potential for a wave of insurance claims prompted Florida’s insurance regulator to send a memo to…

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Retail REIT Consolidation Accelerates With Share Prices Down And Debt Costs Up

As investment into retail real estate from institutions picks up and interest rates make financing property acquisitions more expensive, mergers and acquisitions among publicly traded retail owners are on the rise.

Retail REIT Consolidation Accelerates With Share Prices Down And Debt Costs Up

Kimco Realty this week agreed to buy RPT Realty for $2B in an all-stock deal that market watchers say is likely the tip of the iceberg. It follows two other M&A deals in recent months: Regency Centers' planned acquisition…

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Amazon CEO To Workers Who Won't RTO: 'It’s Probably Not Going To Work Out For You At Amazon'

Amazon CEO To Workers Who Won't RTO: 'It’s Probably Not Going To Work Out For You At Amazon'  

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is turning up the heat on employees who haven't come back to the office for the required three days per week.  In a meeting earlier this month, Jassy admonished return-to-office holdouts, saying their refusal to comply with the policy for corporate employees isn't…

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