By Ashley Fahey – Editor, The National Observer: Real Estate Edition, Feb 6, 2023 A growing spread between starting and effective rents illustrates how office landlords — even among coveted Class A buildings — are seeing their rental income eroded as the office market remains squarely in favor of tenants. It represents another challenge facing the office market, […]
02/08/2023 | by John Barwick REITs posted their strongest returns since January 2019 and outperformed broader markets, as the FTSE Nareit All Equity REITs index rose 10.1% and the FTSE Nareit Equity REITs index gained 10.7%. Broader markets rose as well, as the Dow Jones U.S. Total Stock Market and Russell 1000 gained 7.0% and […]
Yardi Matrix expects distress to increase. By Paul Bergeron | February 21, 2023 at 08:22 AM It’s a bit of same ol’, same ol’ for now in multifamily deal-making two months into 2023 – not a whole lot. “Buyers are cautious, facing higher financing costs and downgraded projections of future rent growth,” writes, Paul Fiorilla, director of research, […]
January 26, 2023 Jarred Schenke, Bisnow Atlanta Amazon has tapped a Harvard-educated designer with experience in drafting municipal land use policies as its new vice president of worldwide corporate real estate and facilities. Amazon named Shannon Loew to the position previously held by John Schoettler, who will remain with the company, the Austin Business Journal reported. Loew’s hiring comes as […]
By Will Parker Follow and Konrad Putzier Follow Updated Jan. 17, 2023 3:03 pm ET The cost of insuring commercial real-estate loans against a rise in interest rates has exploded over the past year, raising the prospect of a market selloff since many property owners will no longer be able to afford these hedges. About one-third of […]
By Matt Grossman Updated Jan. 23, 2023 5:25 pm ET Behind this year’s improved start for markets lies a broad wager that inflation will soon post a once-in-a-generation decline. Market-based gauges of inflation expectations project the annual pace of rising prices will tumble in the months ahead roughly as fast as during the recession that followed […]
he U.S. housing market last year bore the brunt of higher mortgage rates that rode spiraling inflation in the broader economy, but that will change this year, according to Susan Wachter, Wharton professor of real estate and finance. “The Fed is using the housing market as a fulcrum to slow overall activity and get the inflation […]
Most of them develop drugs. One of them imports and sells fossil fuels. Another one sells sand. The 20 Massachusetts-based companies with the largest stock gains over the course of 2022 (as of Friday, Dec. 16) span a range of industries. But, as is the case in most years, the majority are small biotech companies […]
Consumer prices in the United States rose at an annualized rate of 7.7 percent in October, the ninth straight month above seven percent, thanks to still surging demand and stumbling supply. All eyes are fixed on the U.S. Federal Reserve to cool demand by hiking interest rates. But monetary policy has always worked with long and […]
While there is no single answer, one strategy to reduce the racial wealth gap is to motivate more Black people to found technology companies in targeted market sectors. Jeff Bussgang, a partner at Flybridge Capital Partners and professor at Harvard Business School, stresses the importance of innovation waves — emerging industries that tend to attract […]
