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Portland apartment building investment market grows stronger.
Joe Chaplik at Joseph Bernard Investment Real Estate sent me a summary of apartment building investment transactions for Q3 in the Portland area and surrounding counties: Transactions in Q3: 39,...
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ULI: Seattle most attractive market for Apartment Building Investment but...
Two quick links- you decide. From the Seattle Times: Urban Land Institute finds Seattle among most attractive real-estate markets and from Dupre + Scott ( The leading Seattle area apartment market...
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The State of US Commercial Real Estate, Single Family and Apartment Building...
Tom Barrack of Colony Capital on what’s really happening in US real estate from an investor’s perspective. The clearest, most cogent look at the state of commercial, multifamily and single family...
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Apartment Building Investment Cycle Analysis via Dividend Capital. Can this...
Dividend Capital’s Q3 Market Cycle Monitor Report is out and naturally I looked at the apartment building investment cycle chart first. Specifically these days I’m looking to see where the author,...
View ArticleAshworth Partners Blog named a top Commercial Real Estate blog- Grateful
The Real Estate Investment site biggerpockets.com has named our apartment building investment blog one of the top commercial real estate blogs for the second year running. We are honored and thankful...
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Fannie, Freddie list top Apartment Building lenders for 2012.
Multifamily Housing News has lists of Fannie Mae’s (here) and Freddie Mac’s (here) top lenders and products for 2012. First Fannie’s: And Freddie’s: Top Sellers Nationwide—Volume CBRE Capital...
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ULI Biz Barometer: Apartment building invesment sales vaulted last month,...
The Urban Land Institute’s April Real Estate Business Barometer reports that apartment building investment sales were strong enough to pull the entire sector up from last month’s slump while CRE prices...
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Who is buying all those properties and what does it mean for the apartment...
Mark Hickey of CoStar put out a piece looking at who was responsible for the near record $65.8B of apartment building investment in 2012. CoStar’s numbers show that private owners/developers did just...
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Employment recovery is better than we thought. Good for CRE and apartment...
Interesting report from CBRE Econometric Advisors on the revised employment numbers just out from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS). The BLS updates their employment numbers every year to reduce...
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#CRE #Multifamily and #Residential Real Estate state of the market video from...
Tom Barrack was on CNBC last week to talk about real estate with the traders. Great TB quote to open the show: “It’s always great to be the slowest guy on Fast Money”. There’s more wisdom in that...
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10yr fixed apartment loan rate remains below 5.1% as 10yr Treasury ranges in...
The rate on the 10yr fixed (30yr amortization) apartment building loan we track stayed in the 5.0-5.1% range for the second week while the spread to the 10yr Treasury remained in the 240 area, still...
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Apartment investors and residents big winners in office building repurposing....
In many top US markets the supply of office space has not just been stagnant, it’s actually been shrinking and apartment building investors have been the beneficiaries. In a CoStar piece out today...
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5 Key Trends from the ULI Report for Apartment Building Investors and...
The Urban Land Institute/PriceWaterhouseCoopers annual report on Emerging Trends for Real Estate 2014 was released last week and apartment building investors and commercial real estate pros have some...
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Apartment Building Investment in 2014, opportunities among interesting times
Wrapping up in the office on this last day of 2013 and wanted to share some things that have been twitching my antennae lately: The Taper, actually a Malayan TapirSource: www.konicaminolta.com While...
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Opportunities For Real Estate Investment Today by Tom Barrack of Colony Capital
Tom Barrack over at Colony Capital put up a nice presentation of where he sees the opportunities for real estate investment in the current market. While Colony is geared to serving their large...
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Apartment Building Investment Still Leads as CRE Prices Up 11% YoY in...
CoStar is out with their latest Commercial Repeat Sale Indices (CCRSI) showing that: Commercial Real Estate prices post double-digit annual gains in May Momentum picks up in the General Commercial...
View ArticleCA Retirment Plan Commits Additional $2 Billion to Apartment Builidng...
Updated 1:46pm Correction: Updated to reflect that CalPERS is only shutting down its hedge fund investments, not its private equity placements. See Calpers Is Done With Hedge Funds; Paid $135 Million...
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ULI raises #CRE price growth forecast. Includes #Multifamily
The latest ULI/EY (Urban Land Institute/Ernst & Young) Commercial and Apartment forecast shows that respondents expect price growth to slow during the next three years but they expect better growth...
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How to Prevent Politics from Causing ‘Black Swans’ in your Apartment and CRE...
As apartment building investors it’s easy to get so deep into the trenches of our market sector that we get blindsided by political events that don’t make any sense from an economic or investment...
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QE is the most destructive policy for housing in world history. – Dr. Peter...
Was on NAI Global’s call with Peter Linneman, their chief economist who had some very interesting things to say for apartment building and commercial real estate investors yesterday. Note he’s an...
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