Labor/Economy
Economy Watch: A Look at Inflation (And Lack Thereof)
Why a lack of inflation spells good news for many industries.
Economy Watch: There are Fewer Apartment Applicant Deadbeats than Before
The rental pool risk is decreasing. Here’s why.
Economy Watch: A Reason CRE Deals Continue to Move Forward
Speculation about interest rates and CRE.
Economy Watch: Housing Surprises
Housing starts are taking economists by surprise. Here’s why.
‘Economy Watch’ Podcast with Dees Stribling: A Lackluster Month for Retail
A lackluster month for retail, but some kinds of stores are doing well indeed.
Economy Watch: Why Homebuilders are Relying on Millennials
Home builders are still fairly confident about the state of their industry, whose health affects a number of other kinds of real estate. Should they be?
Economy Watch: Consumers Don’t Like the Looks of the Economy
Do consumers have the jitters? That’s happened before, and it always has the potential to cut into retail sales, and thus impact the property types that retail sales support, namely retail and less directly, industrial.
Economy Watch: Retail Sales Growth Slows to a Halt
Retail sales growth took a pause in April, according to the Census Bureau.
Economy Watch: Another Lackluster Q1 Metric (And One That Wasn’t So Bad)
More evidence that the first quarter is going to be remembered as one in which the U.S. economy ran in place (which doesn’t do anyone any good, including various stripes of real estate): consumers didn’t do much more borrowing of any kind during the quarter.