Last Thursday the RealShare Apartment 2010 conference occurred in LA. Reports from my friends who were in attendance the meeting was upbeat and positive. Everyone was optimistic, well cautiously optimistic, that 2011 will be better than 2010. Globe street published a bunch of articles on the conference last weekend so and their writers are much more [...]
I jist received the ARA Third Quarter 2010 U.S. Apartment Market Update. This is a short 1 pager giving trend analysis in 30 major markets. The data is pretty good as ARA is one of the more active apartment brokers in the US. This quarter’s survey shows the apartment market continues to grind out a [...]
I usually don’t take a look at you tube videos, but this one caught my eye. MPF research is now providing a video edition of Apartment Market Dynamics. This is a recap of their their quarterly research reports. MPF is one of the large market research players and their information is used by large institutions [...]
Today’s WSJ has an article, Multifamily Sales Defy the Slump. Its got a few interesting pieces of information and is relatively correct, something unusual for the popular press. However, its focused on big picture issues and I think its missing something. Sales are up as are values, however as with most things today the middle of the [...]
I don’t know about you, but I get 4-5 mortgage broker/banker newsletters a week. Some are good and others are not. Usually I take a quick glance and go on to the next thing. However, there are a few newsletters that I find interesting. Going forward I will post links for those newsletters and make sure the link library [...]