INFOGRAPHIC: A luxury vibe
High-income millennials and Gen Zers are choosing Class A apartments over home ownership. Is it a lifestyle choice or the economy?
National Class A rents average $660 to $2,000 below the average monthly mortgage
Hospitality-focused apartments
Class...
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: GDP MSA
15 cities with the highest U.S. metro GDPs totaling $20.9 trillion according to the latest U.S. BEA data (2021)
The U.S. is the largest GDP in the world. The nation’s metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) generated...
INFOGRAPHIC: More LIHTC
A bipartisan tax deal sets a path for more affordable rental units. Part of the broader Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024, the proposal boosts low-income housing tax credits (LIHTC)...
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
...
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...
America’s spending problem
This will slim you down six ways from Sunday.
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples’ money. —Margaret Thatcher
$2.4 billion—federal losses under specially-created accounting rules by the federal government
Creating...
Inflation is the most destructive disease known to modern societies —Milton Friedman
Here’s how.
1 Shoe leather
The resources and energy people use to convert deteriorating currency into stable assets are costly. Economists call this shoe leather costs, alluding to how people destroy their shoes in the metaphorical...
Paying the fox to watch the chickens: The war on private housing
Despite the rise in homelessness, the federal government continues to raise the barrier to creating shelter for those without permanent housing. Infusing bad actors with HUD money is another layer.
In September the Biden admin....
Infographic: Inflation, the cruelest tax
Inflation: decline of a currency’s purchasing power. Derived using the change in the consumer price index (CPI), created 1919. Changes in CPI determine inflation rate.
Economies form households and fuel apartment supply and rents.
Inflation...
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: Going nuclear
1980
90 percent of uranium used in the U.S. was produced domestically
2021
5 percent of uranium used in the U.S. was produced domestically
55 nuclear power plants generated 20 percent of U.S. electricity
251 nuclear power plants generated...
Infographic: Urban exodus
Newly-formed remote workforces, lock downs, social unrest. Whatever the reason, city dwellers are increasingly navigating to the suburbs and beyond.
24% major metros (of 43) that saw higher rent growth in suburban ZIP codes versus...
Infographic: Discrimination domino effect
In June the Supreme Court struck down race-based admissions in Students for Fair Admissions versus Harvard and University of North Carolina. The decision affects higher education but it signals legal risk in the workplace...
