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: The Q4 $1.7 trillion spending plan is now law
Here’s the multifamily housing industry take
December’s massive government spending law signals the end of two years of Democrat control of the federal government.
The law funds federal departments, agencies and programs impacting housing especially favoring...
Infographic: CRE pivot
With lockdowns came a seismic shift in the way executives work. But remote work is only one in a cascade of events forever changing large city inner cores and their supporting commercial ecosystems. What’s...
Infographic: State business tax climate (2023)
Oregon -15
Washington -15
Virginia -10
Since 2014 these three states have fallen more than 10 points driving out business and revenue with no end in sight.
Carolina +21
Kentucky +17
Tennessee +10
These states are open for business. These three...
Infographic: Energy’s wild ride
250 billion sq. ft. across 100 million buildings makes up the total universe of U.S. residential floor space.
RESIDENTIAL SPACE UNIVERSE
18 percent of residential space spans duplexes, apartments, condos. 75 percent of U.S. space...
Infographic: Can’t beat ‘em
San Francisco-based Airbnb’s new internet listing service (ILS) is exclusively for rental apartments. Dubbed Airbnb-Friendly Apartments, the platform already includes notables Equity Residential, Greystar, and Camden Property Trust.
20 percent cut
Landlords receive a share of...
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: Property rights deconstruction
Rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city—except for bombing. (Swedish economist and socialist Assar Lindbeck)
St. Paul, Minnesota
has passed the strictest rent control measures in the U.S.—if...
Infographic: The great debt reset
In a recent NAHB Power Hitters episode, top economist, Robert Dietz cited student debt payment freezes as one reason for record levels of cash in the economy. There’s a lot happening around student debt,...
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: Regulations rising
The National Association of Home Builders and the National Multifamily Housing Council found that regulations imposed by all levels of government (local, state, federal) account for 32.1 percent of the cost of an average...
Infographic: The incredible shrinking American workforce
While COVID created a shared world experience across generations, reactions to the pandemic roiled the jobs market. One example: Millions of people left the workforce during lock-downs. Although workforce participation rates began to edge...
Infographic: Money talks
ESG (environmental, social, governance) standards break the business convention of evaluating business performance based on quantitative financial metrics. This is a major shift in the centuries-old value model familiar to most Americans: investor value.
ESG...
Infographic: Demographic shift toward lower taxes, free economies
While data collection does not include specifics on why people move, data scientists have drawn a correlation between low-tax, low-cost states and population growth.
+0.1% U.S. population growth (July y/y) at an all-time historic low
Why?
...
Infographic: Active shooter
What just happened?
Mass killings are still rare. They account for 1 percent of all homicide victims annually
12 percent of mass killings are by public shootings. The majority are murders within families, gangs...
