Infographic: Breaking buildings
Breaking buildings Commercial real estate CLOs (collateralized loan obligations) are mortgages that are packaged into bonds and sold to investors. CLOs are widely used to finance apartments. But the same things that make CLOs...
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: Why Earth is setting records
Why Earth is setting weather records
Here’s the data on weather patterns and their potential impact on real assets in the decade ahead. The story begins with an eruption 100x the intensity of the Hiroshima...
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...
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: Big bang theory
Resuming student loan payments with interest at the end of the summer after a three year federal program pause could trigger a tidal wave of defaults according to a new report. Those ages 25...
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: 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: 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: 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 U.S. economy in 8 charts
The U.S. economy in 8 charts
The pandemic unleashed unprecedented federal fiscal and monetary actions “investing” trillions of dollars. This opportunistic spending spree left the U.S. with a weakened economy, inflation and a looming debt...
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...
The vanishing apartment
The affordability crisis is creeping up into middle-income households according to Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies’ 2020 report, America’s Rental Housing.
48% of renter households are considered cost-burdened. What does this mean? 21 million...
Infographic: The changing American dream
Homeownership peaked at 69% in 2004, then fell for years thereafter before rebounding in 2020 to 66%. Fundamentals are set to change the business model on renting vs. buying for some time to come.
Corporate...
