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Since January 2, 2014, I have been Tweeting under the DrTCJ account. To view my homepage click: https://twitter.com/DrTCJ While many of you do not have Twitter accounts, or perhaps you do not follow...
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Another Top-10 List — Largest Multifamily Lenders in 2013
Real estate works well as an investment given the leverage benefits on owner returns that lending can offer (as long as it is positive leverage). The average total property return on apartments...
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Residential Building Permits — Single Family is Flat But Multifamily is...
As housing continues to recover, the laggard in the sector is new housing sales. New home sales were essentially flat in the first quarter of this year when to the same period of 2013 – 107,000 in 2014...
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Commercial Real Estate Cycles for Q1 2014
Just released are the Q1 2014 results of Dr. Glenn Mueller’s Commercial Real Estate Cycles. Dr. Mueller is a professor for the Burns School of Real Estate and Construction Management at Denver...
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Portland, Oregon — An Award Winning Rose of an Economy
This week I had the opportunity to speak to the Oregon Mortgage Bankers Association in Portland, Oregon. It was a fun trip to catch up with colleagues, friends, customers and for the first time, see a...
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Residential Apartment Rents Up 14.7 Percent Since 1990 – Yet Income Flat in...
The resurging housing market is making an imprint on many people’s pocket books, checking accounts and balance sheets. For homeowners today, that is a positive imprint and for renters, a negative one....
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Demand is Outstripping Supply in Multifamily Housing
Let’s go with the bottom line first: Supply is not keeping up with demand for housing in almost all parts of the country. In the 12 months ending May 2014, the U.S. issued building permits (both single...
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Another Top-10 List — Metros With the Most Multifamily Residential Permits...
Each of my econometric presentations include what I see as megatrends that will last at least for the year if not longer. This year includes: Time to overweight in real estate (just look at a...
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Another Top-10 List — US Markets With the Greatest Multifamily Sales Volumes...
The previous blog discussed the changing volume among the top 10-metros in the number of new residential building permits. As noted in that blog, the trend towards more renters than owners is likely a...
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Commercial Real Estate Cycles for Q2 2014 from Dividend Capital
An updated resource I look forward to each quarter is the commercial real estate market cycles report by Dr. Glenn Mueller at Dividend Capital. His nine pages of analyses and findings are a gold mine...
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Insights Into Renters — 2014
As the homeownership rate has eroded from almost 70 percent a few years ago into the 64 percent range today, the number of renters has surged. That has placed substantial demand on the existing stock...
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Another Top-10 List — Cities With the Greatest Delivery of New Multifamily...
Rental housing remains hot, from single family to apartments, driven by still stringent lending, increasing job numbers and failure thus far to ignite in the formation of new households. Apartments,...
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Another Top-10 List — The Best Cities for Snowbirds
After a freezing start to Winter (you can’t call it a blazing start can you, given the recent chilling weather?) there are likely more individuals in the Northern and Midwest parts of the U.S....
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Commercial Real Estate Cycles for Q3 2014 from Dividend Capital
One of the top status reports I read quarterly is the Cycle Monitor – Real Estate Market Cycles from Dividend Capital, prepared by Dr. Glenn Mueller from the University of Denver. This nine page...
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Another Top-10 List — Most Expensive Apartment Markets
Stewart’s headquarters is located in the Galleria area of Houston. This past year from my office window I watched an upscale residential mid-rise structure go up. To my surprise, it is an apartment...
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Q4 2014 Commercial Real Estate Cycles from Dividend Capital
There is one blog topic that I write about quarterly that is preceded by several calls and emails as to when it is scheduled to be available – The Cycle Monitor – Real Estate Market Cycles from...
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Another Top-10 List — Greatest Multifamily Rental Growth Rates for February 2015
One of the mega themes I have included in presentations for the past three years is that the U.S. is simply going to have more renters than we had a decade ago. This is a direct result of the bursting...
View ArticleTed’s Tweets March 13 2015 – April 1 2015
For those of you that do not Tweet – you should consider doing so. If you want to talk about effective bang for the buck, the 140 total characters, letters, numbers and spaces of a Tweet on Twitter...
View ArticleDrTCJ Tweets — April 24 2015 – May 7 2015
For those of you that do not Tweet – you should consider doing so. If you want to talk about effective bang for the buck, the 140 total characters, letters, numbers and spaces of a Tweet on Twitter...
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Dividend Capital’s Dr Glenn Mueller’s Q1 2015 Commercial Real Estate Cycle...
There is one quarterly blog topic that loads up my inbox prior to the data even becoming available — The Cycle Monitor – Real Estate Market Cycles from Dividend Capital, prepared by Dr. Glenn Mueller...
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