The COVID-19 pandemic has created a crisis in real estate of unknown dimensions and with few clear answers. Following the many networks of real estate lawyers nationwide, the issues that have surfaced thus far are many.

As with other calamities, there is often a cascading series of events and conditions, as with the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, and the “perfect storm” of 1991 that led to the loss of the Andrea Gale.