Investment Watch

The number of consumers interested in investing in real estate has doubled since March 2009. Read More »

Gross revenue from residential real estate auctions have skyrocketed 49 percent over the past six years, an increase of $5.6 billion. Read More »

Suddenly Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are behaving like Wall Street Wonders instead of government-run utilities with massive debt and virtually no prospect of ever again operating like private entities. Read More »

These days, it’s hard to find much to cheer about in the Case-Shiller top twenty or NAR’s quarterly metro market report. Yet far beneath the radar of the national or MSA level data, some folks are smiling. Read More »

Thought no-down payment mortgages were a thing of the past?

Monitoring the performance of two different property portfolios. Read More »

Monitoring the performance of a real estate equity portfolio. Read More »

Top 15 Metropolitan Areas by Price Gain Read More »

S&P Equity Research recently lowered its fundamental outlook for the residential (apartment) REIT sector to negative from neutral based on the excess supply of vacant houses being rented out. Read More »

Commercial real estate is finally joining the party. Even though there has been no meaningful overbuilding in commercial real estate, the outlook for the industry has seriously dimmed. The retail and office sectors have turned down with vacancies rising. And the industrial sector is not far behind. A tightened credit market and a slumping economy are to blame. Read More »