MPA, Feb. 22, 2024-Mika PangilinanAmid a persistent national housing shortage, Fannie Mae has published a study highlighting the growing significance of condominiums in the US mortgage market, alongside the risks …
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What Many Get Wrong About the US Office Market
Globe St., Feb. 23, 2024-Erik ShermanThe issue, says Brookfield, isn’t too much stock for demand, but not enough.Click here for more (subscription)
Commercial Mortgage REITs Weathered Another Quarter. They’re Cheap Again.
Barron’s, Feb. 23, 2024-Bill AlpertThe year-end reports have come in from a cadre of lenders who hold loans on some of the more troubled kinds of commercial real estate.Click here for …
Colorado has Allocated Millions of Dollars This Year to Governments and Housing Organizations Planning to Build Affordable Units
Colorado Sun, Feb. 26, 2024–Tatiana FlowersFunds from Proposition 123, the 2022 ballot measure aiming to increase affordable housing stock in Colorado, are helping to create more of these units.Click here for …
Can IKEA Save the Mall?
Wall Street Journal, Feb. 26, 2024–Trefor MossThe furniture giant has bought a string of locations and says it can rejuvenate them with co-working spaces and Nordic foodClick here for more (subscription)
Warehouse Boom Fades, and the Hopes of a California Region Fade With It
Wall Street Journal, Feb. 27, 2024–David HarrisonAs e-commerce soared, warehousing jobs in San Joaquin County surged too. Did the area bet too heavily on one industry?Click here for more (subscription)
Jamie Dimon Says the U.S. Can Avoid a Commercial Real Estate Crisis If the Economy Sticks a Soft Landing
Business Insider, Feb. 27, 2024-Yuheng ZhanJamie Dimon said the distress in the US commercial property sector won’t become a full-blown crisis, and will only deteriorate if the U.S. hits a …
Office Conversions Run at a Record Pace
Multi-Housing News, Feb. 20, 2024-Lew SichelmanThe office-to-housing conversion trend is rushing toward another record year as developers move to take advantage of the live-where-you-work movement while preventing the possibility of …
Could Vacant Office Spaces Across the U.S. be The Solution to a National Problem?
NPR, Feb. 15, 2024–Manuela López RestrepoAcross the United States, empty office buildings are leaving once-bustling downtown areas with less foot traffic and are forcing experts, residents and officials to figure …
Student Housing Pre-Leasing at All-Time High
Globe St., Feb. 15, 2024-Richard BergerThe national student housing sector recorded its best pre-leasing season ever as of January, according to RealPage Analytics.Click here for more