The Real Estate Guys™ Blog
Weekly blog posts keep you up-to-date with news and views you can use. Looking at economics, trends, clues in the news, markets, financing and more … all from the perspective of a real estate investor.
Buying a home in the US is the least affordable it’s been in 33 years as mortgage rates soar this year and home prices
It sure is looking like the public pension ponzi is going to be even harder to sustain than over the last few years… That’s because data
Renters across the country are feeling the brunt of housing inflation. Nearly 60% of renters said their rent increased in the past 12 months,
The growing rental crisis in the U.S. has shown no signs of stopping. That was the topic of a new Bloomberg report this week that highlighted
While the annual pace of inflation in the United States eased slightly in July, a deeper dive into the numbers reveals that some of
With interest rates now hovering around 5%, existing-home sales are down more than 14% from last year. Some potential buyers are sitting on the
It was seven months ago today, when looking at the latest real-time rent data from the likes of Apartment List and Zillow, we highlighted
While economists expected another modest rise in inflation on a MoM basis (if far below the 1.3% surge in June), the headline US Consumer
Peak apartment rent growth is almost certainly now in the rearview mirror, as nearly all measures of rent growth showed deceleration between June and
The number of houses sitting on the market grew at a blistering pace last month, with the number of active listings jumping 31% vs. the
Consumer confidence in the housing market dropped to the lowest level since 2011, as both prospective buyers and sellers have become more pessimistic, according
Nearly half of U.S. mortgage payers own at least 50 percent equity, according to ATTOM’s Q2 2022 Home Equity & Underwater Report. This means that the balance of
U.S. mortgage rates are tumbling even after the Federal Reserve hiked its benchmark interest rate by 75 basis points last week.
The residential real estate market has stumbled, after soaring in the first 18 months of the covid pandemic.
Households that make over $200,000 annually comprise just a sliver of all tax returns that are filed in a given year, but their movement
The massive beat in the payrolls print has removed any hopes of a Fed Pivot and sent rate-hike expectations soaring…
The U.S. labor market remained red-hot in July despite expectations job growth would cool as tighter monetary conditions and company layoffs stoked fears of
More than two years after the virus pandemic upended the world of work, signs of distress in commercial real estate markets are emerging. The
Rising mortgage rates and inflation in the wider economy caused housing demand to drop sharply in June, forcing home prices to cool down.
Depending on where you live, owning a home may seem like a far off dream or it could be fairly realistic. In New York