Demand for residential leases in secure gated communities will continue to grow along with locations a safe distance from major thoroughfares. The Grade office market will return much different than what it was before the pandemic – less occupied, not as pricey.
We expect that data centers, cell towers, power cabins, and the like will continue benefiting from the heightened use of technology. Single-use developments have become a fading concept. The projects that will weather the present, and increasingly, the future will be mixed-use, combining residential, retail, office, and healthcare. We suspect that the future of real estate investment management will parallel the evolution of financial services where transparent data platforms were created to support trading assets in capital markets.