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Buy Now, Pay Later: Helping Americans Make Stupid Decisions

Office Real Estate Value Decline Will Weigh Heavy on City Coffers

Although this article by Bloomberg is specifically about Boston, I highly doubt it is the only city in the country to face a significant tax revenue squeeze as office real estate tax revenue declines in lockstep with its values. One-third of Boston's tax...

CMBS Challenges are Back from the Dead

CREDiq analyzed 556 properties that were reappraised in 2023 and the results are shocking. The Commercial Mortgage-Backed Security (CMBS) loans analyzed were attempting to work through problems. CREDiq only analyzed non-current CMBS loans, not bank or...

Innovative Self Storage Design: Maximizing Grade Variation

DXD's latest dual ground floor loading development in the Alamo Ranch community of San Antonio leverages basement construction for a multi-level facility with ground-level loading access.

Are We in Deflation?

Listening to Dr Peter Linneman's most recent podcast, he makes a dramatic point. We are in deflation if you remove housing, the CPI, and PCE (personal consumption expenditures). A gut check on this makes sense. Remember when egg prices went crazy?...

Bank CRE Loans Hit All-Time Highs

My first-hand experience with banks has me concluding that they are virtually shut down for new commercial real estate (CRE) loans, especially construction. Banks are not competing in a dogfight for deals. They can pick and choose what they want to...

Restaurant Performance is Consumer Sentiment

Millennials Don't Want to Live Where They Can Buy

The chart below could be titled, “The Less Attractive the City, the Cheaper the Housing.” I don't see many stories about Millennials flocking to Cleveland or Pittsburgh. I have never seenONE! When people aren't excited about living in a certain...

Home Sales Hit Historic Low

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) recently published an article highlighting that US home sales hit a 30-year low. We all know the reasons: high interest rates, new construction cannot keep up with the demand, and...

Industrial, Multifamily, Self Storage Industries Stare Down Oversupply Issues

John Chang, with Marcus & Millichap, does a good job framing up the state of the self storage market. I'll summarize his main points, all of which I agree with: