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Gigantic Corporate Debts Could Pin the Fed in an Inflation Trap

For the US Federal Reserve, 2022 is looking like a classic case of damned if you do, damned if you don't. Inflation spiked to 6.8% in November, or the fastest pace in 40 years. But any rise in intere...

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Supply Chain Issues: A Critical Analysis

Evidence of the supply chain crisis we are facing is hard to miss. Right now, off the coast of Los Angeles, over 80 large container ships are sitting idle waiting to dock and offload their cargo. The ...

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Update: How Many Mortgages Are Still in Forbearance?

An examination of the latest forbearance data from Black Knight Inc. has found the number of active U.S. forbearances remained on a relatively steady and predictable pattern entering the final month o...

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Economic Growth Expectations Temper As We Near The Yearend

The economy is springing back from pandemic-fueled downturn that marked 2020. At the GlobeSt.com Multifamily conference earlier this year, Richard Barkham, global chief economist and head of Americas ...

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Overvalued Home Markets Reach Inflection Point

A “crown” has been reached in Boise, Idaho; Austin, Texas; Ogden and Provo, Utah; and Phoenix, making them the five most overvalued markets, according to a report by Florida Atlantic Unive...

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Why a Lending Bounty Awaits Multifamily Borrowers

“A lot of the uncertainty that was there in 2020 around the multifamily market, a lot of that fog, has lifted,” said Jamie Woodwell, vice president for commercial real estate research at t...

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Concern Over Capital Gains Taxes Is Fueling an End-of-Year Rush

Investment volumes are surging at the end of the year. Renewed confidence and a swift recovery following the pandemic are helping to fuel activity, but there is another reason that investors are motiv...

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Here's Why Buyers and Sellers Are Heading Off-Market for Deals

In mid-November, California-based real estate investment firm RanchHarbor announced acquisition of a 112-unit multifamily complex in Boise, Idaho. The company didn’t disclose terms but noted tha...

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California's Unemployment Rate Remains Stubbornly High

California’s labor market expanded at a solid pace in October, with total nonfarm employment growing by 96,800 positions, according to an analysis released jointly with the UCR Center for Econom...

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Apartment Rent Growth Accelerates Year Over Year

Led by metro areas in Florida and the Pacific Northwest, average monthly apartment rents increased 13% nationwide over the past year, the highest growth rate in at least two years, according to Redfin...

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