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.
ATTOM, a leading curator of real estate data nationwide for land and property data, today released its May 2022 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report,
Despite the Fed’s most aggressive interest rate hike since 2000, consumer prices continued to surge in May, adding to fears that inflation may be
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is facing an increasingly grim calculus after yet another hot inflation reading last week: He probably has to push
Today’s US inflation print continued the trend of upside surprises, coming in at 8.6% YoY. In fact, in the past two years, there have
The latest inflation figures are due on Friday and will reveal if consumer prices are signaling a peak or will remain at four-decade highs
Kim Drotar is a public school teacher who rents an apartment in St Louis. But she doesn’t have the best neighbors.
Another week, another collapse in the pace of mortgage applications as the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) reports a 6.5% week-over-week drop in mortgage applications
While it is traditionally viewed as a B-grade economic indicator, the April consumer credit report from the Federal Reserve was another shocker especially after last
Inflationary concerns are casting doubt on the U.S. economy, but so far are having no impact on the red-hot rental housing market.
Black Knight publishes a monthly Mortgage Monitor report that contains interesting information on the mortgage market and housing.
Mortgage costs are the most expensive in years as the Federal Reserve embarks on aggressive quantitative tightening, implying that the souring macroeconomic climate may
A new analysis of IRS data reveals the mass migration of Americans from blue states to red states and the significant ramifications as a
Mark Spitznagel is paid to be prepared for when the market’s weakest links are exposed in a big way.
Rent growth accelerated slightly again this month, with our national index up by 1.2 percent over the course of May.
Apartment construction activity in the U.S. is at a record high, led by some key markets that are logging significant building rates.
With US Macro Surprise data in freefall throughout May, expectations were for Manufacturing sentiment surveys to slide (ISM extending its weakness and PMI confirming
The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller national home price index showed prices were up 20.6 percent in March compared with 12-months earlier. That is a faster
The emerging multi-polar world now includes foreign-exchange markets — as China and Russia, the biggest challengers to U.S. supremacy, boost direct trading between their
With home sales slumping across the nation (while mean home prices are surging relative to median, signaling higher-end homes dominating the sales), this morning’s
Both the Case-Shiller House Price Index (HPI) and the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) HPI for March were released today. Here is a graph