The commercial real estate (CRE) implosion has exposed endemic risk among regional banks and foreign financial institutions that adds fuel to a banking crisis bonfire that surfaced last spring after Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, and First Republic collapsed. A...
It has been a year since I penned the last chapter in a series on the housing market, and it’s time to look at what transpired since last summer and fall. The affordability factor has worsened, there are rising interest rates for mortgage debt, prices remain elevated...
The implosion of commercial real estate (CRE) sparked by office space vacancy rates during the pandemic and a remote work from home (WFH) culture has accelerated in several major metropolitan areas this summer. A study from researchers at New York University and...
There certainly was a lot to unpack in late 2021, and prices for quality farmland and used tractors continued to trend higher along with all materials related to farming and food. One bright spot for farmers is that the price of fertilizer subsided, but it’s still too...
A negative outlook in the commercial real estate (CRE) market emerged from a combination of trends that include secular and cyclical ones, a liquidity crisis in the banking sector, and the wicked crime wave in certain major metropolitan areas. The secular trend is...