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The 2019–2021 vintages don’t need a full rehash, but a quick refresher helps frame today’s market. Global CRE investment hit a record $1.3 trillion in 2021, driven by elevated household savings, historically low interest rates, and high demand for multifamily housing. It was considered an exceptionally favorable environment — followed by a punishing one. By… Continue reading Commercial Real Estates’ Rise and Stall

If you have been on the fence about jumping into self-storage – especially small facilities – this is for you. Today, I’m going to walk you through the real economics of small self-storage facilities. Small storage facilities can be incredibly profitable, but only if you understand what you’re doing and why you’re doing it. The… Continue reading How To Achieve Financial Freedom With Small Storage Facilities

For Immediate Release – Boca Raton, FL – October 24, 2024   This continues to be one of the most important charts you’ll see on the direction of the U.S. apartment market, now updated with September data released today. Multifamily starts trail completions by the widest gap in recorded history through the first nine months… Continue reading Multi-Family Starts Hit Record Low

For Immediate Release – Wickatunk, NJ – October 15st, 2024

Multifamily fundamentals – consisting of occupancy and rental rate growth – are showing signs of stabilization as of the 2nd quarter of 2024, driven by less volatility in interest rates, slowing inflation, declining new apartment construction, and an increase in apartment demand. As reported by RealPage Market Analytics, multifamily unit absorption has been steadily increasing… Continue reading Multi-Family Update – August 2024

Only 3,575 apartment units were converted from office space in 2022. The already tough process now faces even more challenges. Cities hoping to convert emptying office buildings into apartments are running into 20-year high interest rates, reluctant banks, stagnating rental markets, ever expanding permit issues, and other challenges that are bottling up their efforts. Developers… Continue reading Turning empty offices into apartments is getting even harder

Demand and leasing rates are no longer red-hot, but the industrial real-estate sector is proving resilient Developers couldn’t build warehouses fast enough during the pandemic after an unprecedented rise in consumer demand left businesses jockeying for space to store their goods and increase their supply chain capacity. However, as interest rates have more than doubled… Continue reading Warehouses Show Signs of Slowing

It’s official: Rent control is about wrecking apartments Supreme Court recognizes disinvestment as affordable housing policy The Supreme Court of the United States last week rejected landlords’ challenge to rent stabilization and in effect has endorsed this affordability strategy. It allowed the state to continue capping rents in old apartment buildings, the properties most in… Continue reading Why Rent Control Does Not Work

What is a K-1? A Schedule K-1 is an IRS form that “pass-through” entities like individual CrowdStreet deals and our thematic funds issue annually to investors to report activity from investments in partnership interests. Each partner’s share of income, deductions, and credits is ‘passed through’ to them via Form K-1. The K-1 reports the investors’… Continue reading Understanding tax reporting for private commercial real estate: K1s vs 1099s

On a national and global level, Florida and particularly the South Florida market has been among the strongest, with continually solid returns and safety for the capital of international & domestic investors. US News & World Report currently ranks Florida #8 in fiscal stability and #10 with its economy nationwide. South Florida commercial real estate… Continue reading 9 Reasons to Invest in South Florida Commercial Real Estate