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One of CBRE's top Atlanta brokers has joined a firm founded by two of his former colleagues to establish a new investment sales platform. Tom Shafer, former vice chairman of investment sales with CBRE, has joined…

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In a stressful situation, even simple things can suddenly become complex.

A few weeks ago, when Karly Iacono started a new job as senior vice president at CBRE, she realized she needed to pick up a computer at her firm’s office in Saddle Brook, New Jersey. Typically, that wouldn’t be noteworthy, but this was in the midst of a pandemic, and Iacono, who manages a team of brokers focused on retail and net leased investments, is a single mom with 8- and 11-year old girls. How do you find someone to watch them when everyone was locked down and avoiding contact?

Eventually, after running through her contact list, Iacono found a friend who had recently tested negative and was flexible enough on Friday to babysit. Iacono then went to the office and took a mad dash through orientation.

For many women in commercial real estate, Iacono’s deft navigation of an unseen complication was all too familiar.

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Anyone who thinks "slow and steady wins the race" is a dated pearl of wisdom should evaluate the state of coworking at the moment.

Millions of square feet around the country are being vacated as the sector's largest players either give back space, restructure through bankruptcy or go completely belly up. Then there's Industrious.

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The real estate industry is at a vital point when it comes to diversity and inclusion. Much has changed: Conversations that wouldn’t have happened 15 years ago about the need to improve are being had in the open. But words need to be matched with actions — diversity of all types in the top ranks of real estate firms is still hard to find.

In honor of International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month, Bisnow listened in on a conversation with six female real estate professionals, from a variety of backgrounds and working in different parts of the industry, whose experience in the sector ranged from three years to almost 30.

They discussed the things that have changed for the better in real estate, the structural problems facing the industry, the power of seeing yourself reflected in senior positions, and how the coronavirus pandemic is both helping and hindering the quest for equality in property. Here is what they had to say on these vital questions. 

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