Category: Economy

I'm currently reading Dr. Peter Linneman's "Real Estate Finance and Investments" and it includes some great information on how to predict population growth -- the number one indicator of real estate price appreciation and rent growth. Here are some of my …Read more  »

Over the past decade, almost all of the growth in America’s households has been driven by renters, especially renters of single-family residences (SFRs). Owning the stereotypical modest home with a white picket fence was long a hallmark of the suburban …Read more  »

Three powerhouse metropolitan areas -- New York, Los Angeles, and Houston -- together accounted for one of every seven new jobs created in the country over the last three years.  These top three markets added 300,000+ new jobs from 2012 …Read more  »

The percentage of U.S. households that own a home has dropped significantly since 2008, and experts say this downward trend may well continue for at least several more years. Over the last ten years the nation has lost 1 million …Read more  »

The transformation of the American Dream, most broadly manifested in popular folklore as the aspiration of the US middle-class to own a home (even if it means agreeing to a 30-year loan with one's friendly neighborhood too-big-to-fail bank), into the …Read more  »

An unexpected side effect of the mortgage crisis has been the replacement in many neighborhoods of single-family homeowners with renters.  An article from the Urban Institute, took a closer look at the 14.2 million single-family rental units in the US …Read more  »

US home rental prices continued to climb at a modest pace in December, but rapidly escalating costs in cities such as San Francisco and Denver suggest that renters are facing more financial pressure. Prices rose 3.3% in December compared with …Read more  »

A recently released study revealed that a whopping $441 Billion was spent on rents in the U.S. in 2014.  This represents an increase of over $20 Billion from the year before. As shown on the chart below, rents have increased …Read more  »

All good investors are visionaries.  That is, before making an investment they make predictions about the future – which may or may not come true. That said, and working with the humility appropriate for any investor with a healthy appreciation …Read more  »