5 at 5: Your Daily Digest for Real Estate Investing, 10/21/2020

Rental concessions, some new nonpublic CRE REITs for small investors, Ventas goes big on San Francisco life sciences space, a new cannabis REIT for the picking, and think twice about family pics on the wall. As property owners, managers, and renters continue to grapple with the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, the Rental Beast listing service is finding significant concessions in multiple major markets. The Wall Street Journal reports today that a new type of nonpublic CRE fund that targets small investors is raking money in again after demand cooled during the early months of the pandemic.