Jobs are everything to the economy. Period. Good news is that, for the second month in a row, positive job growth was registered in all 50 states for the 12-months ending May 2019 as shown in the following table. Nevada, the top job growth state at 4.00 percent, had more than two and one-half times …Read more
After being accused of numerous social media privacy violations, Apple responded on January 8 with a billboard on the side of the Las Vegas Convention Center: “What happens on your iPhone, stays on your iPhone.” But is it true? It is until it isn’t. Let me explain. Both Apple and Google operating systems …Read more
The “tech support” scam has been around for well over 10 years. Although the look and media have changed, the scam has fundamentally stayed the same. If you remember five to six years ago, fraudsters masked themselves as Apple® support. Technology progression (i.e., Voice over IP) makes thieves’ job easier as they can now spoof …Read more
Other than the home, a person’s vehicle (car-truck-SUV) is typically the second most valuable or costly asset of the household. Nationwide, a garage adds an average $23,211 to the value of home according to a just-released study by Redfin. That equates to a value gain in homes with garages of 12 percent (on average), with …Read more
My favorite Axiom as a real estate economist is the TINSTAANREM statement, which is am an acronym for There Is No Such Thing As A National Real Estate Market or a National Economy. The same is true regarding income. Median income per capita or household, for the country, by state or Metropolitan Statistical Area, varies …Read more
“The devil is in the details,” or so they say. Today I want to explain a technique that serves absolutely no legitimate purpose other than a malicious one: double extension. In the Microsoft® Windows® world the file extension is critical as it indicates which program will open the file. For example, document.doc will be opened …Read more
Jobs are everything to an economy. So goes jobs, so goes the demand for real estate. As usual, I invoke the TINSTAANREM axiom — There Is No Such Thing As A National Real Estate Market or a National Economy. The same is true regarding job growth. It varies from location to location and also at …Read more
This is the first installment for 2019 of the Must Have quarterly report for those in commercial real estate For me this is the most timely read quarterly information regarding Commercial Real Estate — Dr. Glenn Mueller’s Real Estate Cycles Q1 2019 report. The report contains valuable for office, apartment, retail, industrial and hotel …Read more
Home prices are a function of the interaction of supply and demand. Just more than a decade ago, the subprime-driven housing bubble imploded sending U.S. median home prices plummeting from $224,350 in June 2006 (on a 12-month moving average basis) to $164,230 as of January 2012 – a 27.8 percent drop. Since then, most, but …Read more
The primary goal of social engineers is to make us curious or fearful because that is when we are most vulnerable. They use many tactics: Spoofing a sender in emails and utilizing familiar content are two of their favorites. One of the most common attributes of phishing attacks is a sense of urgency. By nature, …Read more