Latest Real Estate Economic Updates

Trepp: More Properties Selling at a Loss

  • Mike Lembeck
  • 23 March 2024

Commercial property prices declined last year by 5.3%, according to the Trepp Property Price Index, while the rate of properties selling at a loss increased. Prices dropped by 0.82% from the...

Why Hasn't the Distress Been Worse?

  • Mike Lembeck
  • 23 March 2024

It may be that things will be good for a time, but possibly not for that long. The office market is leaving many CRE professionals, economists, policymakers, and others scratching their heads. Refin...

Lenders Wrestle With Extend and Pretend

  • Mike Lembeck
  • 16 March 2024

Office is in particularly bad shape as some value losses exceed half and lenders lack the reserves to absorb losses. During the global financial crisis, with a “severe lack of liquidity” ...

Fed Admits It Was Wrong – Kind Of

  • Mike Lembeck
  • 09 March 2024

 During the pandemic recovery, inflation reached the highest rates in 40 years, largely driven by the Federal Reserve’s excessive monetary policy. The Fed got “behind the curve”...