Commercial Investment Real Estate March/April 2017 | Page 9

Regional and Local Banks
Boost Lending to CRE
Obstacles
Thwarting CRE
Women’s Careers
Regional/Local Bank % of Origination
12 months thru Q2 2015
12 months thru Q2 2016
65 percent of the respondents have
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
MID-ATLANTIC
personally experienced or observed gender bias
against women in the CRE workplace in the last
five years.
55 percent of those surveyed have
personally experienced or observed gender bias
against women outside the formal workplace in
the last five years.
MIDWEST
NORTHEAST
32 percent of the respondents believe
lack of support for women in the C-Suite is the
No. 1 reason for the aspiration gap.
SOUTHEAST
62 percent of the respondents think if
employers were required to share compensation
information, industry pay would be more
equitable.
SOUTHWEST
WEST
Source: 2016 CREW survey of 1,019 CRE professionals —
88.4 percent women and 11.6 percent men
Source: Real Capital Analytics
“The best opportunities are more about repurposing urban areas
like the DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES’ ARTS DISTRICT.
New developments won’t be so reliant on cars. The recently
passed Measure M in Los Angeles county will fund millions
of dollars toward increasing mass transit … Without having
to worry about building massive parking lots, more developers
will build in spaces once considered a no-go.”
— Larry Kosmont, president and
CEO of Kosmont Companies
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