Updates in the world of Commercial Real Estate
Developers are adding outdoor co-working space — bocce ball, anyone? — to attract remote workers to stores and restaurants By Katherine Shaver via The Washington Post On a recent weekday afternoon at Northern Virginia’s Mosaic District, a nail salon was two-thirds full, diners in business casual were clustered around sidewalk tables and remote workers tapped […]
Consumer Price Index, year-over-year percentage change By Courtenay Brown via Axios Inflation soared to a fresh four-decade high in June, as prices rose 9.1% from last year — 1.3% from the prior month — the government said on Wednesday. Why it matters: The price shock is tanking Americans’ view of the economy — and risks pushing the Federal Reserve into moving aggressively […]
By Arnobio Morelix Latinx founders are the fastest-growing group of entrepreneurs in America–but their businesses are struggling to scale. While the percentage of Americans running a business has stagnated at 6.2 percent over the past two decades, Latinx founders have rocketed from 6.5 percent of all entrepreneurs in 2001 to 15 percent as of 2019, making them […]
By Jeff Cox via CNBC Inflation held at stubbornly high levels in May, though the monthly increased was slightly less than expected, according to a Commerce Department gauge closely watched by the Federal Reserve. Core personal consumption expenditures prices rose 4.7% from a year ago, 0.2 percentage point less than the previous month but still around levels […]
By Paula Seligson via Bloomberg Elon Musk may be directing his buyer’s remorse at Twitter Inc.’s bot problem. But underpinning the deal is a $13 billion debt bill that’s looking like a bigger burden by the day. The package, drummed up in a rush and signed by banks before the end of the billionaire’s beloved April 20 […]
By Jeff Cox via CNBC Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell emphasized his resolve to get inflation down, saying Tuesday he will back interest rate increases until prices start falling back toward a healthy level. “If that involves moving past broadly understood levels of neutral we won’t hesitate to do that,” the central bank leader told The Wall […]
By Anissa Gardizy & Catherine Carlock Firms that signed big leases right before COVID are trying to design an office worth coming back to. After repeated false starts during the pandemic for returning to the office, the future of in-person work for white-collar professionals around Boston is becoming slightly more clear. In many industries, the […]
By John Worth & Savannah Delullo, Via Nareit Commercial real estate fundamentals continue to point to strong performance in the retail, multifamily, and industrial sectors with vacancy rates mostly declining on a year-over-year and quarter-to-quarter basis, robust rent growth, and positive excess demand. While there has been improvement in the office sector, the impact of […]
By Richard Rubin via The Wall Street Journal Rettig says abusive syndicated conservation easement transactions persist despite stepped-up enforcement WASHINGTON—Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Charles Rettig sought congressional help Tuesday in stopping land-rights deals that the government views as abusive transactions. Mr. Rettig said so-called syndicated conservation easements have continued despite years of stepped-up IRS enforcement that now […]
By Ben Unglesbee via Retail Dive Dive Brief: The share of small retail businesses that couldn’t make rent rose to 34% in April, up six percentage points from February, according to survey data from Alignable. Those surveyed cited inflation, including gas price spikes, supply chain issues, labor shortages, reduced revenues and increasing rent. Of those […]
