Top 10 Business Trends That Will Drive Success In 2016
For decades I have observed business trends from the stage and from the trenches. For the third consecutive year, I am pleased to share with you what I see as top business trends that leading companies...
View ArticleMore Medical Offices, Healthcare Space Needed by 2024
Healthcare occupations and industries are expected to have the fastest employment growth and to add the most jobs between 2014 and 2024, Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Tuesday. With the...
View ArticleBoomers Will Drive MF Demand
SANTA BARBARA, CA—The Baby Boom generation will lead the way in apartment demand growth, followed by Millennials, says a new research report from Yardi Matrix. The report also notes that demand for...
View ArticleCBD Office Buildings Experienced 10-Year Price Appreciation of More Than 100...
The latest Commercial Property Prices Indices (CPPI) report produced by Moody’s and Real Capital Analytics (RCA) shows that prices in the commercial real estate universe have experienced double-digit...
View ArticleRetail Sales See Uptick in November
Retail and food services sales turned in a modest increase in November compared with October, according to the Census Bureau on Friday, with sales for the month up 0.2 percent (seasonally adjusted, so...
View ArticleCommercial Construction Leading Indicator Declines Slightly In November
A leading indicator for commercial, institutional and multifamily construction fell sharply to 49.3 in November, with continued strength in the U.S. South and West regions offset by weaker scores in...
View ArticleHoliday Spending Supports Store Openings Report
The biggest retail winners this holiday season also are the same segments that are planning for the most store openings over the next 12 to 24 months, according to RBC Capital Markets’ latest National...
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Location, Floorplans Still Top Drivers for Choosing Apartment Communities
According to the National Multifamily Housing Council / Kingsley Associates newly released 2015 Apartment Resident Preferences Survey, the rise of apartment living is changing communities, driving new...
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Office Employment Growth Has Not Translated into Robust Leasing and Rent...
Much has been written over the last few years on the very slow rate of rent growth in the office market. A simple glance at historic trends shows that office rents grew at a much faster rate at this...
View ArticleRent Hikes Stress Single-Family Renters
Rising rents for single-family rental homes are stressing the budgets for many households. “There may not be as much room to raise rents going forward. We are starting to see affordability become an...
View ArticleOffice Market Gains Ground in ’15
The U.S. office market is getting healthier, according to Reis’ report on the market for the fourth quarter of 2015, which the company released on Tuesday. Vacancies are down, absorption is up, and...
View ArticleRetail Continues Its Slow Recovery
The retail sector has suffered the commercial real estate’s the most sluggish recovery since the recession, partly because of the hangover from robust building in the 2000s, and partly because the...
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Stagnant Homeownership Rate Likely Means Decades of Strong Demand for Apartments
Over the next two decades, demand for rental apartments will likely continue to be strong, if current homeownership rates remain where they are or improve only modestly. The homeownership rate and how...
View ArticleWhich REIT Sectors Will Stand Out in 2016?
Now that winners of the $1.6 billion Powerball lottery have been identified, those of us who did not win are considering investments with less risk but strong returns. With traditionally strong...
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Commercial Property Prices Show No Signs of Budging
Pointing to an extended market cycle, commercial property price indices (CPPI) continued to either hold steady or trend upward at the end of 2016, the most recent period for which data is available....
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