After getting the results of commercial real estate’s annual physical, we can see how truly healthy that market is tracking. Fortunately for data purposes, The National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries (NCREIF), a non-profit trade association for tax-exempt investors (such as pension funds) in… Read more

Newton’s third law of motion states that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. So an increase in costs in one market will cause business to relocate to another. That is the premise on where companies locate if location is not a factor (such… Read more

Each quarter, Dr Glenn Mueller at Dividend Capital updates his outstanding report on commercial real estate market cycles. He addresses five separate commercial property types covering more than 50 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs). Property types include: Office Industrial Apartment Retail Hotel His defines four phases:… Read more

In the Mortgage Banker’s Daily news this week was a summary of very positive commercial real estate metrics. The article covered a wide array of data types and sources portending good gains year-over-year, with 52 percent of the indicators being positive last year while 85… Read more

The second installment in the commercial real estate returns series is on apartments. In my presentations this year I have talked about mega themes, one being that, because of the housing bubble and revised more stringent mortgage underwriting standards, many people that graduated from trade… Read more

Each quarter, Dr Glenn Mueller at Dividend Capital updates his outstanding report on commercial real estate market cycles.  He segments his reports to five separate commercial property types in more than 50 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs).   Property types include: Office Industrial Apartment Retail Hotel His… Read more

The National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries (NCREIF) is a non-profit  trade association for pension funds and other tax-exempt investors in real estate created to aggregate and report accurate, unbiased real estate return data.  One of the many data series they provide is the… Read more

Every once in a while we need to lighten things up and this news report fits right in there the day following Valentines.  CNN reports the findings of a study conducted by Trulia that singles  prefer to date homeowners rather than renters.  Trulia commissioned Harris… Read more

AOL has just released a compilation  of home price statistics that have a unique perspective on the U.S. housing market.  Standard & Poors’ Case–Shiller Index reported a year-over-year price decline of 3.7 percent (November data) while the National Association of Realtors® saw 2011 declines of… Read more

CoStar, a premier provider of commercial real estate information, has just released 2011 commercial real estate sales volumes. Sales of commercial real estate rose 32 percent in 2011 to $291.6 billion—up 32 percent from 2010.  The 12-year average commercial real estate sales volume was $254.2… Read more