What I’m Reading
Exodus: Companies continue to abandon millions of square feet of office space. Things appear poised to get worse with a record number of leases expiring in the second half of 2022. Business Insider
Doubling Down: Santa Monica is moving to tighten its notoriously tight rent controls even further. The Real Deal I mean, why not? It’s working so well already.
Parsing the Data: A close look at new home sale data indicates that prices may have peaked for this cycle. Bonddad Blog
Normalized: In a sign that the Great Resignation was largely a 2021 story that has come to an end, the Quits Rate has largely normalized this year. The Big Picture
Hitting the Wall: The for sale housing market market is cooling quickly in Zoomtowns like Boise where after soaring during the pandemic. Wall Street Journal FWIW, we are not seeing a slowdown in the workforce housing segment of the Boise apartment market at this point. Over the past couple of years, rent mostly tracked income gains but cost of ownership completely decoupled due to high prices and soaring mortgage rates. IOW, the gap has widened out massively between owning and renting. This likely keeps some upward pressure on rents and downward pressure on for sale housing, especially if inventory continues to rise.
Chart of the Day
Catch 22: Inflation expectations jumped on Wednesday in response to the supposedly “friendlier” Federal Reserve.
Source: The Daily Shot
WTF
Sign of the Apocalypse: Candy maker Brach’s has released hamburger and hot dog flavored candy corn because this is hell and we deserve this. (h/t Russ Barrett) Food and Wine
Tasty: A man was arrested for biting another man’s finger off during a fight because Florida. Click Orlando
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