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.
Thanks to higher interest rates, turmoil at regional banks, and slowing rent growth, sales of apartment buildings are falling at their fastest rate since
Almost $1.5 trillion of US commercial real estate debt comes due for repayment before the end of 2025. The big question facing those borrowers
The sunbelt cities of Nashville, Tennessee, Austin, Texas and Jacksonville, Florida are among the hottest job markets in the country right now, according to an assessment
US bank lending contracted by the most on record in the last two weeks of March, indicating a tightening of credit conditions in the
There’s no sign of a slowdown in central bank gold buying. In February, central bank gold reserves rose by another 52 tons …
Bonds and Bullion are soaring after the ugly JOLTS and weak manufacturing data this morning. Spot Gold soared back above $2020. The precious metal has only ever been higher
The price of gold is inching near its all time high … Whether or not you’re interested in investing in metals, as a real
A new report from real estate brokerage Redfin indicates that, despite elevated mortgage rates, homebuyers continue to leave expensive metro areas like New York and Seattle
Contracts to buy U.S. previously owned homes increased for a third straight month in February, raising cautious optimism that the housing market slump could
Investors are shunning the real estate sector again, as headwinds from high rates show no sign of abating.
Property stocks are back among the year’s
In 2005, years before the subprime mortgage crisis kicked off the Great Recession and led millions of Americans to lose their homes, Larry McDonald
The math is truly daunting for would-be homebuyers: The difference between the mortgage payments and rents is the largest it’s been since the 2006
The math is truly daunting for would-be homebuyers: The difference between the mortgage payments and rents is the largest it’s been since the 2006
People are initially drawn to real estate investing for all sorts of reasons … Many simply come looking for cash flow. Others are seeking
After surging far more than expected in December and January (and beaten expectations in each of the last six months), new home sales were
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and his entire team should be cognizant of the fact that rents have been declining for many months. Despite
Existing home sales in February jumped 14.5% to an annualized rate of 4.58 million, the largest monthly percentage increase since July 2020 and ending
All our client money is held in our investment funds, and excess fund cash is in T-Bills for security, so I wasn’t asking about
Americans have been battered by two years of negative real wage growth as personal savings are depleted while credit card debts jump to record highs. Shelter
Privately owned housing starts in February came in at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,450,000. This is 9.8 percent above the revised January
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