Commercial Real Estate & Business News – October 14, 2024
Commercial Real Estate: A Cause for Optimism Over the past several months, multiple experts have awaited the Federal Reserve to put an end to ongoing monetary tightening. In September, the Fed did so, cutting the Effective Federal Funds Rate (EFFR) by 50 basis points. While this doesn’t mean that dry powder will suddenly start flowing […]
Commercial Real Estate & Business News – October 4, 2024
Luxury Apartments Appeal to Households Squeezed out of Homeownership Luxury apartments are benefitting from challenging homeownership trends that appear to be prompting many higher-income households to rent luxury apartments instead of transitioning to first-time home ownership. According to Marcus & Millichap’s September housing research…» Apartment investing conditions improve, Freddie Mac says The Apartment Investment Market […]
Commercial Real Estate & Business News – October 3, 2024
Survey Indicates Renewed Optimism for CRE Financing in 2025 When the companies that finance CRE offer a mostly positive view of the sector after months of lending that seemed to have diminished to little more than a trickle, developers and investors may also have reasons to feel cheerful. The 3Q 2024 Sentiment Index survey of […]
Commercial Real Estate & Business News – October 2, 2024
Multifamily Permits Fall 16.8% Even though 8.3% more permits were granted for multifamily construction in August compared to July this year, viewing on an annual basis the rate of permitting dropped 16.8% in all U.S. census regions. That came even as…» The Commercial-Property Market Is Coming Back to Life Buyers and sellers in US commercial […]
Commercial Real Estate & Business News – September 27, 2024
CRE Pricing Edges into Annual Growth U.S. commercial property prices edged into annual growth in August amid growing optimism that interest rate cuts will rejuvenate the market, MSCI Real Assets reported. The RCA CPPI National All-Property Index rose 0.6% from July, for a fourth consecutive month-over-month improvement…» Phoenix No. 2 among U.S. cities for distribution […]
Commercial Real Estate & Business News – September 26, 2024
Fed Officials Hint At More Aggressive Rate Cuts in Coming Months Some Federal Reserve officials are signaling that they want to see significantly more rate cuts in the future. Chicago Fed President and CEO Austan Goolsbee at the National Association of State Treasurers annual conference on September 23, 2024, said, “At a moment like this, […]