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Essential CRE Insights
Beyond insightful for anyone in CRE. Worth every second of your time to listen and learn. Cannot recommend this particular Walker Webcast highly enough….
Trouble Coming?
As an old REO guy who has focused on distressed, foreclosed and value added multifamily over the course of a near 40-year career, I can’t help but be drawn to articles addressing distressed CRE loans and properties. There’s been some discussion …
Professional Fraudsters
Renter fraud is rising to new levels and becoming more and more common. In today’s digital world creating incredibly authentic looking false or fabricated documents has become far easier. The article states that only 17% of apartment owners …
Walker & Dunlop Summer Conference – Willy Walker
Recorded at Walker & Dunlop’s recent annual summer conference in Sun Valley, this is must-see TV. Willy addresses a broad range of topics including interest rates, housing prices, asset classes, single/multifamily housing starts, …
A Contrarian View on Multifamily Distress
I get a ton of online CRE newsletters, deal summaries, rent/sale reports, finance/lender updates, and general news of the day information. And for those who know me, my background is in distressed, REO, …
Concessions Are Back
A recent press from Zillow showed that Salt Lake City (50.9%) is among a group of cities where concessions are being offered at more than 50% of the multifamily properties in the market. Of all of the rental listings on Zillow, 33.2% of properties are offering …
Food, Energy, Housing: Challenges
From the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University comes a troubling report describing the demands low-income people (annual household income less than $25,000) face in paying for food, energy and housing …
THE TIMELESS SERIES: Valuable Property Management
I have always believed that property management is one of the most critical, if not THE most critical, component in a commercial real estate investment. It’s one thing for …
Planning To Move?
A comprehensive survey of 30,000 renters (‘comprehensive’ seems to understate the magnitude of the survey), 48% of respondents said they were planning to move in the next six months. This is a marked increase from 40% – 43% in the two preceding years …