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

The Mortgage Bankers Association each quarter assembles a vast array of real estate, lending and economic data and makes these invaluable time series and research available at the click of a mouse. Did you know: • Q1 2012 multi-family vacancy rate was 4.9 percent, down from… 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

Dr. Glenn Mueller (at Dividend Capital which has several REITs) is one of the top experts in Commercial Real Estate Cycles and produces a quarterly report on commercial real estate market cycles covering more than 50 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) including five property types.  And… Read more

CoStar, a premier provider of real estate information, now has the best series for commercial real estate sales volumes, as unlike others, it is not restricted to minimum price levels nor to specific types of ownership.  For those not familiar with CoStar, the company is… 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

Houston–the Teflon® Economy and Real Estate Markets—A Few Scratches, But the Bad Stuff is Not Sticking and We Keep on Cooking….
Summary of the University of Houston’s Institute for Regional Forecasting Symposium Held November 8, 2011, Presented by Ted C. Jones
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U.S. on Pace to Close Almost 4x More Commercial Real Estate in 2011 When Compared to 2009 CoStar reports a resurgence in hotel transactions.  The first-half of 2011 saw sales volumes reach $11.36 billion—up 134 percent from the same period in 2010 and up by… Read more

Liquidity is finally returning to commercial real estate and it’s not just distressed properties.  CoStar reports that May 2011 sales are more than 150 percent greater than May 2010—with a nearly doubling of the average sales price.  May 2010 saw an average price of what… Read more