Media headlines of bank failures, the Federal Reserve’s continued interest rate hikes, a coming wave of distressed real estate, and the threat of an impending recession have caused uncertainty, and the amplification of a doom and gloom market outlook that creates unnecessary anxiety. This anxiety has spilled over to the consumer as 79 percent of …
Announcements by the Fed regarding monetary policy changes, bank failures, and elevated interest rates have caused many commercial developers and investors to pause and reevaluate their paths going forward. Excluding the office sector, market fundamentals of occupancy and rent growth have been good in most property sectors. However, the current market is full of uncertainty …
Challenges facing investors today include navigating the ever-shifting macro-economic environment. However, even with macro-economic uncertainty, commercial real estate fundaments remain on good footing. Market uncertainty is just causing developers & investors to pause in order to recalibrate their strategies. The local commercial real estate market remains active although sales activity might be slowing. Below is …
A volatile stock market combined with rising interest rates, elevated gas prices and a 40-year high inflation have impacted all of us over the past six months. However, even with current macro-economic uncertainty, commercial real estate fundaments remain on good footing. Current market uncertainty is causing developers & investors to recalibrate their strategies. The good …
It’s hard to believe we are past the halfway point of 2021! We thought we would share a few macro and micro economic observations with our clients, friends, and associates. Over the past year, the COVID-19 pandemic has served to accelerate the use of technology, which has led to the growth of online shopping as …
Over the past month, we’ve faced with a heated presidential election, an administration transition and a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Government’s reaction has been to test more people and restrict movement in an attempt the contain the virus until vaccines can be approved and distributed. At the start of the fourth quarter 2020, …
The COVID-19 business shutdown was rapid as it spread over the national and local economies throwing them into a recession in the second quarter 2020. Recessions are typically market resets, but this was an external shock to the system. It poses the question: will a slow and gradual return back to normal be different? So, …
Over the past month, we have all been faced with unprecedented economic and social upheaval precipitated by the COVID-19 pandemic. This global health crisis has caused the U.S. GDP to plummet and unemployment to shoot upward in what is now being termed the “Great Suppression”. The biggest concerns at this time – beyond the life, …
The cumulative risk of the travel bans, school and university closings, the closing or adjusted of hours to stores, restaurants and pubs, canceling of court trials and religious services, and postponing of all sports games and social events, could lead us into a negative feedback loop. A negative feedback loop is a reaction that causes …