Inflation continues to raise its ugly head, and that naturally could make some residential real estate investors concerned about the widespread effects of rising prices. For instance, could rising interest rates — a typical prescription for inflationary pressures…
The Bay Area has one of the worst records in the country for building enough housing for its booming workforce, putting the region atop another national ranking for housing misery. Between 2010 and 2020, the core Bay Area added roughly 6 jobs for…
SPACs, or special-purpose acquisition companies, have been a hot way for young companies to quickly go public and scoop up cash to growth. About half of all new IPOs by volume since January 2019 were SPACs, according to a February 2021 JP Morgan report…
President Joe Biden is seeking to drastically scale down the Section 1031 exchange program that has been used by real estate investors for decades to defer payment of capital gains, and program that has been used by real estate investors for decades to…
Over the course of the last two months, we have seen a noteworthy increase in both the consumer price index (CPI) along with the producer price index (PPI), which measure price changes in select goods and services. With the rise of consumer goods and services…
Keep living in an apartment without paying rent? In the “before times,” it would have been unthinkable — at least without a concerted legal battle with an angry landlord. During the COVID-19 pandemic, though, all that went out the window…
Just as the eviction moratorium, which has been a thorn in the side of many multifamily owners and operators, was supposed to run out, President Biden made a last-minute bid to keep it in place. A statement today from White House…
Millions of American renters are staring eviction in the face, as the often extended federal eviction moratorium first initiated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 11 months ago expired Sunday…
The Supreme Court’s decision last week to strike down the pandemic-era eviction moratorium may arrive too late for many struggling independent landlords, even as it appears to heighten the risk of eviction for tenants behind on their rent…
Of the ten largest industrial projects underway in the US this year, Amazon accounts for eight of them, with a total footprint of 28.3 million square feet—an area about the size of New York City’s Central Park, according to CommercialEdge…