Excess Space’s Michael Wiener says ‘We must talk about science these days instead of just talking about real estate, because it's all tied together now.'

With the pandemic driving demand for larger living spaces, institutional investors are bankrolling SFR subdivisions.

About $75 billion, or 20 percent of all global CRE investment in the first half of the year, went toward industrial and logistics properties, according to Savills Plc.