Tag: economic outlook
Fed foresees only one rate cut in 2024
Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) met this week and decided to keep interest rates unchanged. The Fed forecast that interest rates will end 2024 higher...
5 cases to watch in Supreme Court’s 2023-24 term
The Supreme Court will resume hearing cases in October. Here are five upcoming cases that the high court will hear: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v....
Weathering the perfect supply storm
The theme of multifamily industry reports this year has centered around uncertainty, but seasoned apartment developers, investors and analysts believe the sector is well...
Navigating multifamily risk
A new report from Yardi Matrix has highlighted rent growth and high supply amid low sales and price declines. Real estate is a lot like...
Multifamily at mid-year
Yardi Matrix released its Summer 2023 U.S. Multifamily Outlook report. It examines the multifamily housing business by looking at 4 factors driving it: the...
MBA forecasts slowdown early in 2023
The Mortgage Bankers’ Association (MBA) recently released its Q4 2022 quarterly databook which contains updated forecasts for key economic metrics through 2025. It still...
MBA forecasts a slowing economy
The Mortgage Bankers’ Association (MBA) recently released its Q2 2022 quarterly databook. It contains some data that has been previously discussed here and here,...
Fannie Mae sees slower economic growth ahead
Fannie Mae’s July economic and housing forecasts predict negative GDP growth in Q2 2022 and a recession in early 2023. The slowdown in economic...
MBA looks ahead
The Mortgage Bankers’ Association (MBA) recently released its Q1 2022 quarterly databook. It contains some data that they had previously released but it also...
Fannie Mae forecasts a downturn in 2023
Fannie Mae’s April economic and housing forecasts anticipate that rising interest rates will cause the U.S. economy to contract in the second half of...
Prediction: 2022 will be a good year for multifamily housing
In its U.S. Multifamily Outlook for Winter 2022, Yardi Matrix forecasts that the fundamentals of the multifamily housing business will remain strong in 2022...
Forecasts predict slower growth, higher inflation
A pair of economic forecasts, one from Fannie Mae and one from the Federal Reserve project lower growth and higher inflation for the rest...
Fannie Mae lowers near-term GDP growth forecast
Fannie Mae’s July economic and housing forecast projects a flattening of the GDP growth curve in 2021, with lower growth in Q2 but higher...
ULI economic forecast sees improvement
The Urban Land Institute (ULI) recently released its biannual economic forecast. It has a more positive outlook for the economy and for the multifamily...
CBRE on COVID-19 impact
On March 18, CBRE held a flash briefing on the potential impact of the COVID-19 virus. This blog provides highlights from that briefing that...
