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Real Estate Weekly Outlook A different - and less fun - kind of March Madness. The ongoing coronavirus crisis roiled global markets on a historically volatile week that marked the end to the nearly decade-long post-recession bull market for U.S. equities. There were few places to hide as t...

Real Estate Special Report In this Real Estate Special Report , we analyze the potential impacts from the ongoing coronavirus outbreak in the United States to determine which REIT sectors are better-prepared to withstand a potential near-term economic shock. While many pundits and comment...

Housing construction increased the last two years, but after several years of underbuilding we are not overbuilt but closer to supply-demand balance. This article looks a the United States as a whole. Regions have very different patterns. However, the approach of this article provides a templa...

Real Estate Weekly Outlook Fear, incorporated. The coronavirus-related volatility continued on a wild week for U.S. equity markets following the worst week for stocks since the financial crisis. Stocks ended the week with gains following a series of historic intra-day fluctuations includin...

REIT Rankings: Industrial In our Real Estate Rankings series, we introduce and update readers to each of the residential and commercial real estate sectors. We focus on sector-level fundamentals, analyzing supply and demand conditions and macroeconomic factors driving underlying performa...

The price of lumber is highly sensitive to interest rates. Since lumber is an essential ingredient in home building and construction, low interest rates work to increase demand and boost the price of wood. In 2018, lumber rose to an all-time peak at $659 per 1,000 board feet. The previous high...

For the past several months, the news from the residential construction sector of the economy has been truly impressive, greatly exceeding forecasts. Only one caveat: building activity in the winter months is typically depressed, so seasonal adjustment factors are large, and that can turn a mo...

The economic calendar is modest, and the trading week is holiday-shortened. The most important reports all relate to housing – prices, sales, and plans. With markets viewed as fully or excessively valued by many, there is some renewed interests in finding some attractive remaining secto...

The best time to size up the collapse in housing that I called almost two years ago will be when it is over - so we can visualize its full extent. Since it is now over by some measures, though not by others, this might be as good as we get for a while as a moment when we can pause to take a ...

Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) returned 29% in 2019, supported primarily by the Fed and other central banks around the world pivoting to more accommodative monetary policies. 1 Lower interest rates reduced borrowing costs and spurred greater investor demand for REITs given their typica...