Tag: interest rate
Fed raises rate forecast for 2025
Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) met this week and decided to keep the Fed Funds rate unchanged. However, the Federal Reserve’s updated forecasts for...
Fed backs off higher for longer
Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) met this week and decided to keep the Fed Funds rate unchanged. However, the Federal Reserve’s updated forecasts for...
Fed projects interest rates will stay high longer
Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) met this week and decided to keep interest rates unchanged. However, the Federal Reserve’s updated forecasts for key economic...
Fed signals higher interest rates ahead
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) met this week and decided to keep interest rates unchanged. However, the Federal Reserve’s updated forecasts for key...
Hope and uncertainty
Better times might be just around the corner for apartment investors stressed by the highest interest rates in years. Or interest rates could easily keep...
How multifamily is adopting consumer retail techniques
In 2022, the U.S. inflation rate rose to 8.5 percent—the highest the country had seen since 1982. With rising inflation comes an increase in...
Banks face risk from CRE loan exposure
Banks have seen a lot of concerns over the last few months by depositors, investors and regulators. Multiple institutions were shuttered when it became...
High interest rates stymie apartment investment
Few are executing new deals amid uncertainty about how high rates will go, what properties are worth, how much rents and operating costs will...
MBA forecasts a shrinking economy in 2023
The Mortgage Bankers’ Association (MBA) recently released its Q3 2022 quarterly databook. It contains data on mortgage originations and on holdings that has been...
Land prices drop
Rising interest rates stress developers as they look for land to build on. But tough times may create opportunities. Land prices are falling—for the first...
Housing affordability falls to more than 10-year low as rising interest rates take a...
Housing affordability fell to its lowest level since the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) began tracking it on a consistent basis in 2012...
Fannie and Fed furnish falling forecasts
The latest forecasts from Fannie Mae and from the Federal Reserve foresee higher inflation than in earlier forecasts. They predict that rising interest rates...
What happens to CRE prices as interest rates rise?
A recent report from Trepp seeks to answer this question by looking at the history of commercial real estate (CRE) price appreciation. The report...
Soaring construction costs drop housing affordability to lowest level in a decade
Supply-chain bottlenecks that put upward pressure on home prices along with rising interest rates contributed to housing affordability falling to a 10-year low. And ongoing production...
Economic forecasts show rising inflation concerns
A pair of economic forecasts, one from Fannie Mae and one from the Federal Reserve predict higher inflation ahead and higher interest rates as...
