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And Yet Another Top 10 List — The Emptiest Cities in America (Housing...
The relative interaction of supply and demand combine to realize home prices and rental rates—and both are a local market phenomenon [As always, I invoke the “There Is No Such Thing As A National Real...
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College Towns for Investing
With an estimated 14.4 million college students, University and College towns are fertile rental markets. But with the housing bubble and the lowest interest rates in 50 years, investing in rental...
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Apartment Property Returns — National Council of Real Estate Investment...
The second installment in the commercial real estate returns series is on apartments. In my presentations this year I have talked about mega themes, one being that, because of the housing bubble and...
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MBA’s Q2 2012 Mortgage Lending Report — The Best Quarter Since 2008
The Mortgage Bankers Association each quarter publishes a phenomenal report delineating lending statistics and an array of related data. A summary article of their findings can be viewed at the...
View ArticleCommercial Real Estate Metrics Looking Good
In the Mortgage Banker’s Daily news this week was a summary of very positive commercial real estate metrics. The article covered a wide array of data types and sources portending good gains...
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Annual Physical Results for Commercial Real Estate — The Patient is Doing...
After getting the results of commercial real estate’s annual physical, we can see how truly healthy that market is tracking. Fortunately for data purposes, The National Council of Real Estate...
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Younger Destined to Be Renters — The Demand for Rental Housing Booms
One of the megatrends I have talked about the past two years is that we will continue to have younger individuals being more predisposed towards rental housing. I truly believe that most of the college...
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Another Top 10 List — Best Places for Graduating Students to Live Where There...
Since 2008, it has a been a trying market for many college graduates to find a job in a location where they could also afford renting a place to live and receive a decent pay check. Forbes has reported...
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Corpus Christi, Texas — Proof of TINSTAANREM and How Quickly an Economy Can...
Once again I invoke the TINSTAANREM clause — There Is No Such Thing As A National Real Estate Market. Each real estate market is different. Ditto the economy. And proving that clause today is Corpus...
View ArticleDividend Capital’s Commercial Real Estate Cycles for Q1 2013
Dr. Glenn Mueller at Dividend Capital quarterly posts an analysis of the where commercial markets are in four phases commencing at Recovery, then Expansion, Hypersupply and finally Recession. His...
View ArticleU.S. Housing Characteristics — The American Housing Survey
Did you know that in 2011: Median renter household income was $28,000 while owner-occupied housing income was $58,919 Median renter monthly housing cost was $845 versus $1,008 for owner-occupied...
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Another Top 10 List: Top (and Bottom) Rental Rate Growth Markets in 2012
As job growth returned, the pressure on residential rental rates was positive in each of the 50 largest markets in the U.S. in 2012, according to MPF Research, as published in MultiFamily Executive....
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Commercial Real Estate Market Cycles — Q2 2013
Dividend Capital’s Dr. Glenn Mueller’s latest quarterly analysis of commercial real estate markets is now available. Dr. Mueller reports on where commercial markets stand for more than 50 Metropolitan...
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Another Top-10 List — Best Places to Spot Celebrities (excluding LA & NYC)
I’ll bet we all have spotted celebrities. Some of the celebrities I have seen over the years out in public include Shania Twain, John Wayne, Clint Black, Glen Campbell, Robert Wagner, Mike Tyson, Dave...
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Another Top-10 List — Markets With the Largest Increase in Rent in 2014
As with all pricing, rent is a function of the interaction of supply and demand. In many markets, construction has not kept pace with job growth, and rents continue to climb. Compounding that is an...
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Another Top-10 List — Greatest Multi-Family Occupancy Rates
One of the mega-trends in real estate in recent years has been a shift by many consumers from being homeowners to renters. Ten years ago, 20 and 30 somethings would be diving into homeownership for the...
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Another Top-10 List — Metro Markets with the Greatest Multifamily...
An ongoing mega theme in housing markets is the increased number of households, that in the past would be homeowners, but today are relegated to being renters. The trifecta of student loan debt,...
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Commercial Real Estate Cycles for Q4 2013 — 50 MSAs
Real estate follows repetitive cycles. A noted specialist in the field of commercial real estate cycles is Dividend Capital’s Dr. Glenn Mueller. Each quarter Dr. Mueller analyzes apartments, hotels,...
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Another Top-10 List — Apartment Boomtowns
One of my megatrends this and last year in real estate is the continued strong growth in residential rental markets compared to owner-occupied housing. There is going to be at least a decade of people...
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Apartment Market Performance — Average 8.78 Percent Annually Since 2000
An increased number of apartment dwellers remains as one of the mega themes in speeches this year. Since the burst of the housing bubble and recession, several economic and regulatory factors are...
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