The Future of Real Estate and Retail
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🗓️ 22 May 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Everybody needs money. That's why they call it money. |
| 0:07.0 | From full global headquarters, this is Motley Fool Money. It's the Motley Fool Money |
| 0:20.1 | radio show. I'm Chris Hill joining me this week, Emily Flippin and Ron Gross. Good to |
| 0:24.5 | see you both. How you doing Chris? We've got the latest headlines from Wall Street. We |
| 0:29.3 | will dig into the future of television. As always, we've got a few stocks on our radar. |
| 0:34.2 | But we begin with the future of the workplace. This week, MasterCard and Spotify became |
| 0:40.3 | the latest companies to announce extended working from home policies for their employees. |
| 0:46.4 | Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said many employees at Facebook will work from home permanently. |
| 0:52.9 | And with all this new flexibility comes increased safety for the health of those employees |
| 0:57.9 | and increased risks for the businesses that have depended on big companies having their |
| 1:02.9 | employees in a single office building. So, Ron, we haven't really heard yet from the |
| 1:08.5 | big banks on Wall Street. You have to imagine they're thinking about this as well. What does |
| 1:14.5 | this mean for commercial real estate as well as the restaurants and shops in those urban |
| 1:20.8 | areas? Nothing good Chris. This is going to be a big deal. Commercial real estate has |
| 1:26.3 | got to be, I think the biggest thing that gets impact there is a result of the work from |
| 1:31.4 | home trend. Companies are inevitably going to reduce their need for office space. Vacancies |
| 1:38.4 | will increase. Prices will drop. I think retail bankruptcies that we've been seeing are |
| 1:44.0 | going to exacerbate this commercial real estate problem. And it's going to continue for some |
| 1:50.4 | time. Interestingly, I think we're also going to see an exodus from cities into suburban |
| 1:56.3 | locations from people. And as folks move out to the suburban areas, we actually could end |
| 2:01.8 | up seeing a residential real estate boom out in the suburbs, again, leaving the cities |
| 2:07.9 | in some type of pain as a result of increased vacancies that we've already started to see. |
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