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: Comfort creatures
The curious case of comfort animals in apartments
Why pay a pet deposit when you can pass an animal off as a comfort animal? Or maybe a resident wants to circumvent a no-pet policy. The...
Infographic: Man-made chaos
State-mandated lockdowns began a cascade that especially devastated lower income people and continues to adversely impact the business of property management.
Government interference
with the ability to collect rent has left many investors unable to maintain...
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: Infrastructure bill
The $1.2 trillion bipartisan bill contains just $550 billion in new spending. The remainder are annual allocations for highways and other infrastructure. New spending includes:
$110 billion roads and bridges
$66 billion railroads
$65...
Infographic: The path less sustainable
In May Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael S. Regan released a 681-page Emissions Program for comment. If implemented, the plan will significantly increase costs for 62 percent of the U.S. electrical supply at...
Infographic: Where has all the housing gone?
No labor. No materials. Rising costs and more regulations. The lack of housing grows.
5 million more housing units needed to pace demand
5 million of these are multifamily units
Housing production fell as demand...
Infographic: Unsustainable California
5 reasons California is unsustainable in its current state
1. Rent control
Several rent control bills failed to make it through the California Senate. AB 1482 (anti-rent gouging bill) did clear the Senate judiciary committee. If...
Infographic: The wild ride of Big Tech
Our government has abandoned a rich and socially beneficial history of trust-busting to allow big tech to dominate people’s lives.
Tim Wu, The Curse of Bigness
Big tech value
Facebook, $759 billion
Amazon, $1.6 trillion
Netflix,...
INFOGRAPHIC: Appliance payoff models explode
^58 percent increase in requested quotes to thousands of appliance repair businesses y/y (2022-2023)
^43 percent increase in appliance spend in 2023 compared to 2013—rising from $390 to $558 over the decade
Why? 1987. Home appliances...
Infographic: Down the rabbit hole
Getting to the bottom of an artificial labor market
3 million unemployed U.S. persons
New jobless claims rise even after many states opt out of the feds’ unemployment program
$300-a-week bonus unemployment benefits enacted...
Infographic: Essential workers
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Updated: April 16, 2020
Who gets to work?
essential workers
Real estate is essential (depending on where you work)
Construction. Apartment operations. Maintenance services. Real estate functions are categorized as essential in the Department of Homeland Security’s...
Infographic: Flying post pan
It’s inevitable. Trade show organizers are revving their engines, ready to roar back.
Maybe you’ve already dared jump on a plane to wait out the pandemic with family or because you needed a break from...
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?
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Infographic: Happy. Happy. Happy.
Happy. Happy. Happy. Job satisfaction hit a 36-year high in 2022. This is great news having moved through a wave of quiet quitting. There’s just one caveat. Worker productivity contemporaneously fell at the fastest...
