What I'm Reading Cooling Off? Some of the hottest housing markets in the country are showing signs of slowing down with inventory increasing and more sellers reducing asking prices. Bloomberg The article specifically talks about Boise - a rental market that we are bullish on (we recently closed our second multifamily...
October 22nd – Turning Point
What I'm Reading Turning Point: Amazon has dominated the industrial leasing market, sending prices soaring. However, the ecommerce giant is now beginning to pivot away from leasing towards buying and developing its own facilities. Bisnow Will be interesting to watch how this plays out as a competitor with zero capital...
October 20th – Max Capacity
What I'm Reading Max Capacity: Prologis, the world's largest logistics warehouse operator has announced that their facilities are effectively full. Freight Waves This begs the question: even if (HUGE IF) running port operations 24/7 increases capacity, where do all of those goods actually go once they leave the ports complexes...
October 15th – Leveling Off
What I'm Reading Shrug it Off: Industrial rents are rising at such a rapid clip that developers aren't sweating spiking development costs. Bisnow Easing Up: While demand for apartments will likely remain substantially above its historical norm, it seems likely that absorption volume will ease somewhat in 2022. This is...
October 14th – Long Shot
What I'm Reading Long Shot: Zelman and Associates released a contrarian residential market call, claiming that today's tight housing market is already getting overbuilt thanks to the downward trajectory of population growth per the 2020 Census. CNBC Other analysts, like Jay Parsons of RealPage were quick to jump on this...
October 6th – Thin Air
What I'm Reading Thin Air: Mortgage payments are getting more unaffordable as record home price growth erases savings delivered by historically low interest rates. Wall Street Journal The affordability problem will continue to get worse if / when interest rates continue to rise. Borrowers have record equity in their homes...
September 30th – Overreaction
What I'm Reading Overreaction: The feared tsunami of evictions predicted when the Supreme Court struck down a federal ban on evictions in August has failed to materialize. In fact, the number of filings have dropped or remained flat since the decision. Washington Post It’s almost as if they relied on...
September 28th – Hoarding?
What I'm Reading Hoarding: Panicked American shippers may be overbuying goods in an attempt to build inventory to provide a cushion in the event of another global crisis. They are making the current container crisis worse. Splash Its Bad Everywhere: There are over 60 container ships full of import cargo...
September 24th – Trade Off
What I'm Reading Trade Off: In an effort to hedge against further rising costs, 3rd party logistics companies are expanding their domestic warehouse space to reduce the frequency of long distance shipping. This, in turn is driving demand for warehouse space higher. According to CBRE’s Supply Chain Advisory, transportation costs...
September 21st – Logjam
What I'm Reading Logjam: The Los Angeles / Long Beach port logjam has enough containers to cross half of the US if laid end-to-end. Amazingly, the problem is getting worse. The average wait is currently 8.7 days compared with 6.2 in mid-August, according to L.A. gCaptain Respite: The producer price...