Commercial Real Estate & Business News April 11, 2018
Phoenix Makes Big Jump in Ranking of Best Places to Live in the U.S. The Phoenix metro area cracked the top 20 in the latest measure of best places to live in the United States, helped by an influx of new residents. Phoenix made significant progress, jumping to 19th place from 44th place last year […]
Commercial Real Estate & Business News April 10, 2018
Billionaire Mall Owner: ‘Amazon has Been Great for Retail’ Here’s Why At a time when retail stores have been closing due to the “Amazon effect,” billionaire mall owner Rick Caruso says “Amazon has been great for retail.” “What (Amazon has) shown us is a path to success,” the owner of The Grove and The Americana […]
ISS World Expo – Vegas Recap 2018
Recently, I attended the ISS World Expo conference in Vegas. This was my first time at this event to learn a little about the self-storage product type. The overall layout of the conference and education sessions were well thought out. It allowed for me to pick a track of education to really get a better […]
1Q18 Officially in the Books | Phoenix Market Recap
It is amazing how fast the first quarter of each year always seems to fly by. Â It is a non-stop, press on the gas pedal type of quarter and 2018 was no different than 2017; well, maybe? In looking back at total transaction velocity for Phoenix Metro in 2017, there was on average about 260 […]
Commercial Real Estate & Business News April 9, 2018
The March Jobs Numbers Show the Economy Is Sound, but Far From Invincible The March employment numbers were a disappointment, but only relative to extremely optimistic expectations. The basic story of a robust United States job market remains very much intact – though with an important asterisk. Sure, the United States added only 103,000 jobs […]
Commercial Real Estate & Business News – February 5, 2018
U.S. Added 200,000 Jobs in January; Unemployment at 4.1 Percent Another month, another solid jobs report. The pace of job growth has slowed somewhat over the last two years, but the economy is still adding jobs at about 2 million a year – a solid figure at a time when the unemployment rate is so […]