Bisnow Reports

In this episode, Cedric Bobo, who runs Projected Destined, a social impact platform that aims to offer young people the training they need to break into the real estate industry. He’s speaking here about the importance of ownership, building real estate’s next pipeline of talent and why real estate companies need to look at their diversity metrics to make meaningful change.

BOS Development Managing Partner Beatrice Sibblies speaks about being a woman of color in real estate, talking to her daughter about the death of George Floyd and what she’s telling people who ask "what can I do?".

Bisnow’s Atlanta reporter, Jarred Schenke, about the boom-and-bust nature of Georgia’s capital, the state’s reopening, how the local studios are hoping to get back to work and how the office market could be affected by a work-from-home push.

In this week’s episode, we hear from Ryan Simonetti, the CEO of Convene. The RXR Realty and Brookfield-backed company, which has both flexible workspaces and an events and meeting arm, was forced to lay off and furlough hundreds of employees as a result of the crisis. He is speaking here about future of meetings in the world of social distancing and his take on when people will gather in large groups again.

In this episode, we speak to Margaret Anadu, the head of Goldman Sachs Urban Investment Group. In New York, Urban Investment Group is one of the groups behind Essex Crossing -- a six-acre, mixed-use development with retail, office and more than 1,000 new homes on the Lower East Side. Here, she talks about getting capital to small businesses, what kind of impact this virus will have on the development of workforce and affordable housing in the United States and why she’s eager to get back to the office.  

In this episode, Corcoran CEO Pamela Liebman talks about New York City bouncing back, negotiating between buyers and sellers during the pandemic and why she thinks residential prices won't be hit as much as they were in the fallout of 9/11.

In this week’s episode we hear from Bisnow UK Editor Mike Phillips and Manchester and Birmingham reporter David Thame on the uniquely British political tensions arising over lockdown, the evaporation of foreign capital and the future of offices, coworking and cities.

Scott Gerber is the CEO of Gerber Group, a company with 10 bars and restaurants in New York City, Washington D.C. and Atlanta. In this episode, he talks about his predictions on how we will return to socializing, accessing government support, conversations with landlords and his experience with the virus.

In this episode, we speak with Sam Chandan, the Larry & Klara Silverstein Chair in Real Estate Development & Investment and dean of the NYU SPS Schack Institute of Real Estate, about how shifts in the way we use space and interact in the city may impact real estate values. We also discuss the real estate job market, and how real estate professionals can stay productive during this time of isolation

Flexible workspace provider Knotel reached a $1B valuation last year, but like many of its competitors has been forced to make significant job cuts and prepare for a new reality as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Sarva speaks about the economic damage to the real estate industry, making layoffs, trying to give spaces back to landlords and reports the company hasn’t paid rent.