Latest Real Estate Economic Updates

Adaptive Reuse Expected to Surge This Year

  • Mike Lembeck
  • 21 February 2022

A perfect storm of market conditions—including a shortage of multifamily housing, high rents and downsizing offices—combined with a massive inventory of aging, underused buildings in Ameri...

SFR Rent Growth Continues to Break Records

  • Mike Lembeck
  • 21 February 2022

People have been shocked, reports Money, over jumps in heating bills. Unadjusted energy prices from January 2020 to January 2021 were up 27% according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It could have...

The Fed's Worst-Case Scenario Is CRE Doom

  • Mike Lembeck
  • 21 February 2022

If you believe in the forecasting power of celebrity hair styles—in this case, “back to the office” powerbobs, as The Guardian put it—real estate is due for a good boost. But ...

January Saw Solid Multifamily Rent Gains

  • Mike Lembeck
  • 14 February 2022

How hot is the apartment market? It took only seven months for the average asking rent to hit $1,600 from $1,500, and only 10 months to reach $1,500 from $1,400.  January is normally a seasonall...