Alaxandria Marvar, Don’t worry — it’s anonymous. Professionals across commercial real estate — about 700 of them so far — are using crowdsourced data from their peers to see how their salaries stack up against the industry average — and to negotiate raises if they should be earning more. The creators of the database, personalsalary.com, hope to see the number of participants climb.  “Salaries in this industry are basically a...

Alexandra Marvar, For commercial real estate companies that didn’t have a crisis management plan, the pandemic has been a rude awakening. It has also been an opportunity to take notes. According to BDO USA’s Ross Forman, managing director of corporate real estate advisory services, as many as 50% of businesses globally didn’t have a business continuity playbook in place before the coronavirus, and a large percentage of those that did...