Scott has over 25 years of experience in commercial real estate investment, focusing on multi-housing investment sales and realizing over $2 billion in transactions during that time. Scott is a managing director in the San Francisco office of Jones Lang Lasalle (JLL), having joined from HFF, and is responsible for institutional-grade investment advisory for multi-housing assets across the western United States. Previously the Owner and President of commercial brokerage firm Atlas IREG which offered strategic financial services to multi-housing investment and development companies, Scott is a member of professional organizations, NAREIT and ICSC, and got his degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Listen in to Realty Mogul’s CEO, Jilliene Helman, and Scott Bales as they discuss the information from JLL’s database on May 2020’s residential collections and why they offer a unique perspective on the impact of COVID-19. Scott shares his insights on developments in the debt and equity markets and identifies some specific markets that have been hit harder than others. We also discuss international companies’ approach to ensuring tenants are happy and healthy, moving forward, and how and why investments are being affected by politics and the upcoming election.

“Democrat or Republican I think the diminution of uncertainty would be beneficial to the market.” - Scott Bales

This week on The Reality Mogul Podcast:

• How and why JLL is judging the time frames for returning to normalcy region by region
• Impacts on various industries
• An update of the steps JLL clients are taking at the moment and why
• The damage done to the markets over the past few months and what the new normal might look like
• The forward outlook over 6-12 months for leasing and capital markets
• Multi-family assets collection data in May as compared to previous months
• The impact of the implosion of Airbnb rentals on the long term rental market
• What design changes in multi-family units Scott expects to come out of the pandemic
• Scott gives his tips on which markets to invest in or avoid in the coming months.
• Whether JLL is seeing distress in the retail and hospitality sectors
• Scott’s thoughts on where interest rates are going to go and what the recovery will look like

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