2019 and January 2020 is the first time in a decade small companies have not added to their payrolls. (Oh-no the vast majority of CRE companies are 20 employees or less.) In contrast the Wall Street Journal reports Moody’s analysis of ADP payroll data finds, “larger businesses continued to expand their payrolls for a record 10th straight year. Small companies not only lack time to hire fast enough in this tight job market, they often cannot...

Over the last few years the commercial office market has garnered its fair share of the news led by the high-flying WeWork phenomena. What has not hit the front page until last weekend in the New York Times Real Estate Section, is the rising rents for lofts and studios that have been the home to artists. Once edgy neighborhoods or off-the-beaten-track locations where painters, potters, guitar makers and the like called home to their craft, are...