(Featuring Dror Poleg, Author, Rethinking Real Estate, Co-Chair, Urban Land Institute, Tech and Innovation Council, Co-Founder, Real Innovation Academy)

Over the last several years, there has been significant change in the real estate industry—and the pandemic has served to kick that evolution into high gear. So what happens next?

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While some sectors—such as industrial and housing—have shown increased promise through and beyond this current advanced moment in the pandemic, some of the real changes in "core" assets might not become clear for several years.

In this newest episode of the AFIRE Podcast—the first of two special conversations with Dror Poleg, author of Rethinking Real Estate and Co-Chair of the Tech & Innovation Council at ULI—we dive into what happens next for these once-stable sectors, including office buildings and other real estate integral to the apparent cohesion of the central business districts before the pandemic.

As large companies seek new forms of flexibility for how they use their space, and how their employees utilize that space, they're also reimagining the services they provide—and the services they need in order to make these changes possible. According to Poleg, we're just at the beginning.