INFOGRAPHIC: Interest rates slow apartment development
Rising interest rates, tighter lending and flattening rents in parts of the country have left property companies from California to Florida waiting for financing that may not come soon.
+500 days (up 45% from 2019)...
INFOGRAPHIC: Have CRE foreclosures hit bottom? Probably not.
Office demand is not returning. Owners working with lenders on short sales aren’t counted as foreclosures muffling the numbers. The volume of commercial property sales involving lender participation soared 83 percent in the first...
INFOGRAPHIC: Demoralization in 1 easy step
spend like there’s no tomorrow
Runaway federal debt destabilizes resident incomes, interferes with housing production and depresses apartment rents (PRO IN THE KNOW)
$35 trillion debtor
Unrepentant, compulsive, unsustainable, untethered
U.S. interest payment scenarios
U.S. payments and rate projections...
INFOGRAPHIC: Small businesses keep labor market flying
Job openings at small businesses fire on all cylinders—despite Federal interest rate increases
(up) 50 percent more job openings in April were by small/midsized employers compared to 2019
(down) 14 percent fewer job openings by larger...
INFOGRAPHIC: Battle of will
Launching from the bestselling 2008 book, Nudge, by Thayer and Sunstein, nudging became a cultural phenomenon. The concept assumes that behavior is better persuaded than regulated. Sounds good, but does it work?
400+ behavioral insight...
Infographic: Inflation
Inflation is a broad rise in prices when
Government prints more money to pay for programs and entitlements
People who have more money spend more money
Output volume doesn’t keep pace with demand
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INFOGRAPHIC: 2024 Tax brackets are out
The IRS released new federal income tax brackets in November. Though marginal tax rates did not change, federal law requires brackets be adjusted for inflation.
5.4%
this year’s rise in tax brackets due to inflation. Last...
INFOGRAPHIC: Disparate impact of high interest rates
Disparate impact of high interest rates has adversely impacted millions of low- and middle-income families—and housing providers. More often high interest rates depress stock and housing prices, and other asset values— impacting all income...
Infographic: Navigating fake assistance animals-Americans with Disability Act (ADA) VERSUS Fair Housing Act (FHA)
ADA
Requires business owners to make necessary, reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities.
Accommodation could allow a person with a disability to be accompanied by a service animal in a place of public...
INFOGRAPHIC: Multifamily housing’s long-run labor crisis
Multifamily housing’s long-run labor crisis
The construction industry alone needs over 61,000 new hires every month just to keep up with industry growth and worker attrition. On-going labor shortages across all sectors will continue to...
INFOGRAPHIC: The White House issues national rent control plan
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The new cap on annual rent increases will apply to a million Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) apartments according to The Washington Post.
2020 Senator Sanders (Vt.) contends that federal control of the multifamily...
INFOGRAPHIC: Grinding housing into votes
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Landlords rarely escape the machinations of politics. Just how far will tinkering with free markets go this election cycle?
In an election-year effort to shift responsibility for the nation’s high costs of living away...
INFOGRAPHIC: The era of fiscal excess
The era of fiscal excess, BofA Michael Hartness’s description of today’s government spending
The national debt doesn’t impact Americans in the present, right? It’s a tomorrow problem. Persistent inflation, dollar devaluation and rising rents from dollar...
Infographic: Top U.S. Banks by uninsured deposits
Over 9,000 banks failed between 1930-1934 after the stock market crash. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) was created in response. Comparatively nine banks failed the following year.
$250 thousand
If a bank fails its uninsured...
INFOGRAPHIC: Independent contractors targeted
A new Biden administration rule goes into effect March 11, imposing stricter measures to determine whether companies can classify their workers as independent contractors. The new regulation could affect millions of workers.
443,000 total overstatement...
