What I'm Reading Chop Shop: The latest investment trend is buying tiny pieces of everything from real estate and cars, to art, fine wine and memorabilia. Vox Looking Inward: Foreign investors are following in the footsteps of their domestic counterparts, focusing on secondary markets with strong fundamentals over their traditional...
August 30th – Overloaded
One Big Thing Overload: Harvard University's "The State of the Nation's Housing 2021" report found, unsurprisingly that the nation's affordable housing crisis is getting worse. What is perhaps more troubling is that current economic and market conditions indicate that there is no end in sight. Globe Street That brings us...
March 12th – Big Shift
What I'm Reading Turning Inward: Foreign investors in the US are changing their sights from trophy properties in a handful of gateway cities to secondary markets that are experiencing population and job growth as persistently low yields make it hard to meet return targets. Yardi Matrix Same as it Ever...
April 8th – Deflating
What I'm Reading Deflating: A new study by data firm VTS, which tracks tens of thousands of negotiations across the U.S. between landlords and tenants found that big companies are sticking with their city-center office buildings. However, they are also cutting back on space, likely driving down rent for years...