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 "title": "Ep. 9 RENTV's Weekly CRE News & Views with Steve Bloom;  08-10-2020",
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   "text": "Hello and welcome to episode number 9 of RENT TV's commercial real estate news and views"
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   "text": "podcast with Steve Blum on August 10th, 2020."
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   "text": "I'm Steve Blum, your host and founder and CEO of RENT TV.com, our news and media company"
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   "text": "for the commercial real estate industry."
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   "text": "Now in our 21st year providing daily news stories, market reports and more for the commercial"
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   "text": "And thank you for tuning into our new episode of our weekly podcast, RENT TV's commercial"
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   "text": "real estate news and views, a brand new news program for our incredibly dynamic and ever"
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   "text": "changing industry."
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   "text": "In these shows, streaming to you from the heart of Silicon Beach and Marina del Rey, I will"
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   "text": "give you my take on recent national and western region issues, store and stories, followed"
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   "text": "I will then touch on tech news in our tech drive segment, and then I will discuss recent"
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   "text": "and upcoming podcasts, webinars, events and recordings of interest in our power segment."
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   "text": "Hopefully you like what you hear, it is my goal to make this show a profitable use of"
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   "text": "And I am confident we will accomplish that today, as we have put together a show packed"
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   "text": "full of industry information that could help your business."
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   "text": "But before I start with the industry wide news and reports segment, I want to give a"
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   "text": "huge thanks to our very first podcast sponsors, Capitol Rivers Commercial and Redwood Mortgage,"
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   "text": "who I will tell you about more later in the show."
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   "text": "I also again want to thank all of those who sent the very positive feedback about our"
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   "text": "new podcast, and to those who sent constructive comments, which I do listen to as we try to"
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   "text": "craft this podcast to best serve our audience of very busy real estate professionals."
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   "text": "So let's get into this show, which I start with the industry market report segment and"
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   "text": "I am taping the show against the backdrop of news, which includes Congress still not"
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   "text": "passing the next stimulus bill, which many need to pay rent this month."
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   "text": "I know many multifamily owners are focused on that."
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   "text": "But on a positive economic news front, there is the just announced improved national employment"
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   "text": "Now I suspect much of the improvement in the jobs number was in the service sector, since"
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   "text": "a brief email report we received from Wells Fargo economics noted that the service sector"
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   "text": "However, office owners shouldn't share too much since the report noted that service providers"
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   "text": "Next I'll tell you about specific commercial real estate reports and these days it's"
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   "text": "And this week I have a few new reports to summarize for you starting with an industry"
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   "text": "The survey was completed between July 15th and July 20th and very interestingly most"
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   "text": "The report noted the increases in disruptions is a reversal of previous trends, which it"
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   "text": "This report follows NAAP's latest biannuals commercial real estate sentiment index, which"
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   "text": "However, as noted earlier, the July survey wasn't all doom and gloom as those who replied"
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   "text": "Now, to summarize their findings on the specific sectors, starting with office, they see market"
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   "text": "and they do not think we will see a rapid return to pre-recession, office using employment,"
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   "text": "The shining star through all of this is industrial properties due to the shift to online shopping"
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   "text": "and the panelist actions also indicate that they too aren't very pessimistic about the"
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   "text": "While the report notes that the recession may cost short-term downward pressure on rental"
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   "text": "As for the sad retail sector, the UCLA alamakans report predicts that it will continue its"
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   "text": "A bit about the survey."
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   "text": "A dim review of the national multifamily sector was presented by an article by Catherine"
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   "text": "pandemic has already hurt rental apartment owners, it's going to get rougher."
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   "text": "is Coming summarized that the pandemic injected a huge amount of uncertainty and volatility"
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   "text": "They noted it hasn't been as bad as it might have been yet because of the federal subsidy"
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   "text": "But with that expiring this week and no deal done yet by Congress, concern is growing"
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   "text": "about late or missing rent payments ahead so trouble could be on the horizon."
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   "text": "More troubling perhaps is a noted shift in demand from luxury units aimed at those who"
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   "text": "It's known as the split role initiative, however, which is qualified."
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   "text": "What a mess."
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   "text": "So if you have any issues or opinions about issues you want to bring to my attention, please"
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   "start": 1615.3,
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   "start": 1652.3,
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   "start": 1655.9,
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   "start": 1899.34,
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   "text": "with a lot of hotel industry news in it as Pebblebrook Hotel"
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   "text": "Trust, the Bethesda, Maryland based hotel REIT has completed"
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   "start": 1933.22,
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   "text": "partners Carrie Mack and Mark Schlossberg is also building"
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   "start": 1943.98,
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   "start": 1968.86,
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   "text": "Pebblebrook bought the hotel in December 2014 for $52.3"
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   "start": 1981.46,
   "end": 1985.1,
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   "text": "The development will include a 20 story 566,000 square foot"
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   "end": 2001.66,
   "text": "class eight tower at 1001 Church Street."
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   "start": 2005.14,
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   "start": 2007.7,
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   "start": 2010.06,
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   "start": 2013.1,
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   "start": 2066.82,
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