Category: Top National News

Calculated Risk, Feb. 20, 2024–Bill McBrideThe Census Bureau recently released Housing Units Started by Purpose and Design through Q4 2023. Although the majority of units built-for-rent’ are still multi-family, there …

Globe St., Feb. 20, 2024, Erik ShermanIn its 2023 Q4 earnings report last week, Ventas didn’t meet expectations — a lost of $0.23 per share for the quarter rather than …

Lodging, Feb. 20, 2024The commercial real estate lending market demonstrated signs of stabilization at the end of 2023, with borrowing costs appearing to have peaked, even as transaction activity remains …

The Washington Post, Feb. 20, 2024-Rachel SiegelAround Boston, a glut of lab space is just the latest example of how the U.S. economy zigged when just about everyone thought it …

The Wall Street Journal, Feb. 2, 2024-Peter GrantWarehouse developers are increasingly contending with a headache that is all too familiar to residential builders: not-in-my-backyard community opposition to their projects.Click here for …

Wall Street Journal, Feb. 13, 2024–Liz YoungRetailers and their suppliers have been slashing their inventories. Now they’re turning to cutting back storage space.Click here for more (subscription)

Builder Online, Feb. 9, 2024-Ali WolfThe latest Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey (SLOOS) was recently released by the Federal Reserve covering the fourth quarter of 2023. As we have noted …

Wall Street Journal, Feb. 11, 2024–Matt WirzMost investors are running away from San Francisco’s downtown real-estate market, but Ian Jacobs is heading in. Call it a family tradition. Jacobs is …

Bloomberg, February 12, 2024–Diana LiThe head of one of the largest mortgage trade groups in the U.S. said proposed rules on bank capital levels have the potential to upend the …

Business Insider, Feb. 13, 2024–Yuheng ZhanBasel III proposals would cripple commercial property financing, MBA CEO Bob Broeksmit said. The proposed regulation would require banks to maintain more capital to protect …