Institutional Real Estate, Inc. recently asked a collection of industry heavyweights to answer a few questions and share their forecasts and expectations for U.S. real estate in the current environment.

It is now more than 10 months since European countries began restricting the movement of various segments of the populace. What started as a localised lockdown of some areas in northern Italy has now become a widespread practice, whereby whole nations are effectively placed under a strange, mostly benign, form of house arrest, as soon as positive test results for SARS-CoV-2 begin to spike.

Industrial and logistics space was once the forgotten wasteland of real estate investing, a gritty but generally boring asset class. Then came the internet and, with it, ecommerce. Throw in a crippling pandemic, and suddenly logistics is all the rage. It is cited by virtually everyone as the sector to watch in 2021.