

Bekah Carlson
This week I attended some of the virtual online sessions at NAR’s annual conference. Most interesting was economist Lawrence Yun, who forecast a 9% growth in residential transactions for 2021. This will certainly have an impact on commercial real estate as the housing market changes.

Peter Cotsirilos
It looks as if many Chicagoland restaurants will be closing permanently over the next few weeks. This may be an opportunity for future restaurateurs to take advantage of vacant spaces.