Q&A

"Get involved in every opportunity available, declining an invitation to participate will be a missed opportunity," says Avison Young's Dorothy L. Alpert.

CBRE's Lenny Beaudoin says the average office-using worker will spend 1.6 days a week working remotely, up from 0.6 days a week pre-crisis.

"Had I listened to the bankers who laughed at me or called me crazy 20 years ago when I went to their offices to seek financing to develop my first project along the Miami River, I would not be where I am today. I believed in myself more than anyone did and if I was going to bet on someone, I was going to bet on myself."

According to Carolyn Pistone, president and managing director at Clear Blue Commercial, the most valuable tool you have is yourself and you take that with you wherever you go.

My feeling is that cooler heads among legislators will prevail, and they'll take a careful look at the economic, jobs and environmental benefits of 1031 exchanges, and will move to preserve it.

"Real Estate transactions during the initial days of the pandemic was in a state of uncertainty. Whether deals would close were as unpredictable as the spread of the virus itself," said attorney Stevan Pardo.