Commercial Observer, Feb. 21, 2024-Greg CornfieldOffice real estate values and asking rents continued their incremental descent around the U.S. in January, forcing deep discounts and fewer transactions, and weakening market …
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Don’t Build That E-Commerce Warehouse in My Backyard, More Communities Say
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 …
How Millennials Are Shifting the Housing Market
Newsweek, Feb. 20, 2024-Giulia CarbonaroFor a large number of millennials, the generation born between 1981 and 1996, the time to buy a home has never been quite right.Click here for …
Lab Spaces Boomed During the Pandemic. Then the Experiment Took a Turn.
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 …
CBRE: Commercial Real Estate Lending Market Shows Stabilization
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 …
Ventas Expects $300M in Senior Housing Investments in First Half 2024
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 …
Single-Family Built-for-Rent Almost Doubled Since 2020
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 …
New California Law Eases Process of Building Affordable Housing on Church Property
CBS News, Feb. 19, 2024-Kenny ChoiA church that was once in a predominantly black neighborhood of Berkeley has been transformed into a multi-million dollar home.Click here for more
The Hottest Trend in U.S. Cities? Changing Zoning Rules to Allow More Housing
NPR, Feb. 17, 2024–Laurel WamsleyAmerica is facing a housing crisis. To ramp up supply, cities are taking a fresh look at their zoning rules that spell out what can be …
Odd Lots: Immigrants, Wages, Fraud
The Housing Scene by by Lew Sichelman, Feb. 16, 2024Say what you want about America’s immigration “crisis,” but we wouldn’t be able to build our houses without immigrants.Click here for …