Commercial Real Estate

Robots that deliver food or clean rooms have gone from a high-tech gimmick to the hotel industry’s latest weapon to keep customers safe from the coronavirus.

The slumping economy could be upending Brookfield Property Partners’ strategy of buying and repurposing faltering malls.

The pandemic’s effect on work patterns and city economies is weighing on the value of urban office buildings after a strong recovery from the 2008 financial crisis.

Smaller and private hotel owners are raising money however they can. Some are in talks with lenders and some are selling properties at discounted valuations.

The co-working company is trying to revive its business with larger, more-traditional corporate clients that might want more flexibility in leasing space as long as the pandemic persists. .

Shopping center owners pinned some of their hopes on the expansion of gyms as retail real estate swooned in the five years leading up to the pandemic. But consumer enthusiasm for working out near others has weakened.

The reopening of admissions at senior housing communities owned by companies like Ventas Inc. is failing to end the downward slide in occupancy rates, the latest sign that the hard-hit industry faces a long slog to recovery.