Despite barriers, banks still open to office transactions

A drum that has been beaten to pieces over the past two years is the one signaling that the global pandemic had crushed the commercial real estate world’s office sector. 

Countless stories have been written about the effects of office workers gathering their personals, heading for the parking lots, driving home to stay and checking in as needed via conference screen-time.

But lately that story has shifted its focus away from fingering the pandemic as the cause of all the market’s ills to acknowledgement that larger forces were at work to drive the plunge in demand for office space.

“There are more and more…