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Ronald A. Kaplan

CPA, Partner - Commercial Real Estate Industry Leader

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Julie Miner

CPA, CISA, CRISC, Partner

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Rethinking the real estate industry’s future amid and after the disruptions of COVID-19

As the new world brought about by COVID-19 continues to take shape, the “new normal” in the real estate industry will be one centered around trust. Investors, tenants, landlords, and communities trusting one another to find common ground. Trust in building teams to create infrastructure enhancements and enforce policies to keep the people within their walls safe. Trust in remote work strategies to maintain digital safety and cybersecurity. 

Now is the time to completely rewrite strategies for finance, management, planning, risk control, and design. It’s time to revisit business strategies to improve processes and performance, implement leading technologies, and leverage best practices to help mitigate risks, drive efficiencies, and uncover uncharted value. Plus, this is a new opportunity to define and act on a corporate vision that seeks to optimize not only profit but also social impact, reputation, and sustainability.

Watch this page as we continue to add resources, insights, and events on how to navigate these changes and help build a more resilient, thoughtful, and trustworthy real estate industry.

Trust-as-a-Service: Looking externally to improve digital capabilities and reduce operating expenses

4/2/2021 | Julie Miner

Businesses outsourcing tasks and functions – IT, finance, and more – must be confident their providers will meet expectations and support growth. Read more.

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Featured insights

Insight

The value of trust: Turning the property industry’s new normal into a better normal

Every firm that deals with buildings must completely rewrite their strategies for the new, post-COVID-19 world, and trust will be key. Read more.

8/24/2020 | Tama Huang, Ron Kaplan, Julie Miner, Ira Weinstein

Insight

Making our buildings healthier will require investment, so let’s make it count

To overcome COVID-19 and prepare for future crises, building owners must develop long-term investment plans toward operating smarter and healthier. Read more.

10/2/2020 | Vincent Dermody

Insight

How the right financial strategy can drive performance and build resilience for real estate companies

Commercial real estate (CRE) companies often must make rapid, data-driven decisions. Learn how to build a system that enables them.

10/26/2020 | Naseem Wenzel, Ronald Kaplan

Insight

To build trust post-pandemic, pay ongoing attention to risk management and continuity

As COVID-19 shapes new risks, real estate firms must constantly assess policies and controls for cybersecurity, compliance, business continuity, and more.

9/23/2020 | Julie Miner, Marianne Turnbull

Insight

For real estate companies, capital strategy during a crisis is all about trust

For real estate businesses seeking loans or investments in the wake of COVID-19, relationships might be the difference between success and failure. Read more.

11/24/2020 | Naseem Wenzel, Ronald Kaplan

Healthy building strategy

Insight

The evolution of buildings, from automated to trusted

The COVID-19-driven emphasis on trust and well-being is the latest in years of priority shifts in the built world, from automation to safety to smart features.

10/28/2020

Insight

Making our buildings healthier will require investment, so let’s make it count

To overcome COVID-19 and prepare for future crises, building owners must develop long-term investment plans toward operating smarter and healthier. Read more.

10/2/2020 | Vincent Dermody

Insight

Prioritizing health in real estate strategy: CohnReznick’s Healthy Building Framework

CohnReznick’s Healthy Space Framework is a fast, efficient means to help you get there. Use it to determine how your smart assets and healthy building strategies and infrastructure would fare across a spectrum of intelligence and healthy building factors — and then help graduate your properties from smart to truly trusted.

9/30/2020

Series

Life enhanced by disruptive technology

New technologies can provide insights into occupant behaviors and enable building owners and operators to design human-centric environments that prioritize social interaction and collaboration. As office space becomes a commodity, these customer-focused services will drive value in commercial real estate.

Insight

REAL ESTATE: How coronavirus will shape the smart workplaces of the future

In a post-pandemic world, office building design priorities will need to shift from function to the purpose of the space and the behavior of the people occupying it.

3/31/2020 | Vincent Dermody

Insight

Motili PropTech Interview Series: Vincent Dermody

Motili PropTech interviews Vincent Dermody, Managing Director, CohnReznick.

9/30/2020

Insight

Intelligent Space: The next step for smart buildings

Ongoing digitization has spurred significant demand for connected buildings around the world, and Australian developers are rising to the challenge.

6/28/2019 | Ross Miller, Vincent Dermody

Finance strategy

Commercial Real Estate

Checklist for a trust-based capital strategy

Trust, reputation, and transparency have become increasingly critical to successful funding in the CRE sector. Have you considered these key questions?

1/25/2021

Commercial Real Estate

For real estate companies, capital strategy during a crisis is all about trust

For real estate businesses seeking loans or investments in the wake of COVID-19, relationships might be the difference between success and failure. Read more.

11/24/2020 | Naseem Wenzel, Ronald Kaplan

Commercial Real Estate

How the right financial strategy can drive performance and build resilience for real estate companies

Commercial real estate (CRE) companies often must make rapid, data-driven decisions. Learn how to build a system that enables them.

10/26/2020 | Naseem Wenzel, Ronald Kaplan

Virtual Workshop: Centering trust in your post-COVID-19 real estate business strategies

As we continue to settle into the new world shaped by the coronavirus pandemic and prepare for an uncertain future, every business that deals with buildings needs to rewrite their strategies to allow for new expectations and risks. Connect with our team to revisit your practices, policies, and plans, and learn how we can help you strengthen where needed.

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Tama Huang

Chief Innovation Officer

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Ronald A. Kaplan

CPA, Partner - Commercial Real Estate Industry Leader

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Julie Miner

CPA, CISA, CRISC, Partner

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Ira Weinstein

Managing Principal – Real Estate, Cannabis Industries

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