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Research examining industrial real estate through the lens of economic globalization, outsourcing, and transnational property dynamics using global economic base theory.
RICS survey indicates flat UK residential demand and sales in January 2025, with respondents anticipating market recovery in subsequent months.
RICS UK Residential Property Survey reports continued house price growth but reduced market momentum driven by multiple uncertainty factors in February.
RICS UK Construction Monitor tracking steady industry performance across the construction sector.
RICS Residential Market Survey reports on recent UK housing market performance and price trends.
RICS Global Commercial Property Monitor reports gradual improvement in Australia's commercial property sentiment in Q1 2025, with firming rental expectations and easing credit conditions.
RICS Global Construction Monitor reports resilient outlook for Australian construction industry with steady sentiment despite ongoing sector challenges.
Freddie Mac reports that U.S. economic growth in Q3 2024 was revised upward with a resilient labor market continuing into the forecast period.
Freddie Mac's outlook assesses U.S. economic momentum, housing market dynamics, and mortgage trends based on strong consumer spending and third-quarter growth.
Freddie Mac's November 2024 outlook assesses U.S. economic resilience, Q3 growth momentum, and moderating labor market conditions across housing and mortgage sectors.
Analysis using transaction-level data on rents, home prices, and mortgage payments to develop a new relative affordability measure and examine its effects on homebuyer behavior.
Analysis of first-time homebuyer trends, affordability challenges, and supply constraints affecting residential housing demand.
Freddie Mac analysis examining spending patterns between homeowners with locked mortgage rates and renters facing rising housing costs.
Newmark's third-quarter 2023 capital markets analysis covering U.S. real estate investment trends, financing conditions, and cross-sector market dynamics.
Newmark's comprehensive analysis of U.S. real estate capital markets activity and trends for the second quarter of 2024.
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Analysis examining how tariff policies affect construction expenses and economics across Canadian commercial real estate development.
Forward-looking analysis of German real estate market conditions and investment trends for 2026.
This piece was originally published on Forbes on June 8, 2026. Gen Z is coming of age in an economy where the traditional path to prosperity no longer works, and instead of giving up, they’re beginning to build new ones. For 70 years, the American Dream followed a predictable sequence: school, job, promotion,…
Property tax revenue collected by state and local governments rose 2.7% in Q1 2026 to $214.6 billion, outpacing overall state and local tax growth of 1.5%, with property taxes comprising 37.5% of total tax revenue and representing the largest share among all revenue sources. Year-over-year, property tax collections increased 4.6% from Q1 2025, while individual income tax rose 1.4%, corporate income tax increased 2.1%, and sales tax declined 0.3%.
Newmark thought leadership examining how the One Big Beautiful Bill Act impacts commercial real estate opportunities and challenges across multiple property sectors.
Newmark analysis identifying geographic markets and conditions where U.S. office space demonstrates strength and resilience.
Analysis of how U.S. infrastructure investments are driving growth in the industrial real estate sector.
CBRE's forward-looking analysis of UK real estate market conditions and trends for 2026.
Most Republicans and Democrats believe there should be federal policies in place to make housing more affordable, according to a recent Redfin survey. For instance, 85% of Democrats say there should be first-time buyer tax breaks, and so do 77% of Republicans. These survey results align with broad bipartisan…
While the ceasefire reduces immediate energy risks, Australian construction costs are likely to remain under pressure.
State-level real GDP growth strengthened in the first quarter of 2026, with 46 states and the District of Columbia recording increases, while national real GDP rose 2.1% driven by downward import revisions and nonresidential investments. Washington led all states with 4.5% annualized growth followed by California at 3.7%, while South Dakota experienced the weakest performance with a 1.6% decline, with regional growth ranging from 0.2% in the Plains to 3.6% in the Far West.
The PCE Price Index, the Federal Reserve's preferred inflation gauge, accelerated to a three-year high of 4.1% year-over-year in May 2026, with core PCE rising 3.4%, driven partly by energy price increases related to Iran conflict tensions. Despite elevated inflation, consumer spending remained resilient with a 0.7% monthly increase in May, though the personal saving rate held at a three-year low of 3.0% as households drew down savings to maintain spending amid eroding real income.
The median U.S. home price hit a record high, one factor that’s pushing some prospective buyers away. New listings of U.S. homes for sale fell 1.7% from a week earlier during the week ending June 21 to their lowest level since February. The total number of homes for sale dipped 0.4% week over week, the […] The post…
The document discusses commercial real estate opportunities in an environment where consumers perceive inflation easing despite energy-driven price pressures, falling real wages, and uneven recovery signals. The chief economist argues that the real CRE opportunity involves identifying assets with durable income growth before the market reprices in what is termed "Cheerios Arbitrage.
Analysis of how central banks may respond to the inflation shock from the Middle East conflict.
John Burns Research and Consulting's 2026 Executive Housing Summit gathered 150 housing industry executives (27% private equity, 18% banks/lenders, 10% land developers, and others) in Laguna Beach to discuss market conditions and strategic positioning. The summit's eight key takeaways indicated housing executives maintain cautious outlooks with split sentiment through 2029, entitled land development has become the top risk-adjusted investment, equity raising has slowed while debt and land banking gain market share, entry-level buyers face affordability pressures while affluent segments show strong demand, rental policy tailwinds exist alongside technology scaling opportunities, and artificial intelligence requires multiyear data cleanup efforts before strategic adoption.
Quick take on the rising importance of capital expenditure, particularly AI-related investment, in shaping inflation dynamics.
Commercial economic trends forum presentation.
Passed unanimously out of the Senate Banking Committee, the ROAD to Housing Act embraces solutions to the housing affordability crisis like zoning reform and streamlining rules to encourage more homebuilding. For the first time since the foreclosure crisis, U.S. Congress has taken meaningful action to make housing…
Americans are moving less. In 2024, about 7.15 million people relocated across state lines, according to a recent StorageCafe analysis. The number, representing 2.1% of the U.S. population, is the lowest interstate mobility rate in more than a decade and a clear step down from 2.5% in 2022 and 2.3% in 2023. The…
New home sales of newly built single-family homes declined 7.3% month-over-month in May to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 580,000 units and fell 6.8% year-over-year, driven by elevated mortgage rates, rising inflation, and economic uncertainty that constrained buyer affordability. The median new home sale price reached $424,900, months' supply of new homes stood at 10.3 months (above the balanced market indicator of 5-6 months), and regional performance was mixed with the West experiencing the sharpest monthly decline of 26.9%.
U.S. sawmill production fell in the first quarter of 2026, marking the second consecutive quarter of declining output, with production down 0.4% from the prior quarter though up 1.7% year-over-year, according to the Federal Reserve G.17 Industrial Production report. Sawmill full production capacity declined 6.0% year-over-year while the utilization rate rose to 71.8% on a four-quarter moving average, and employment in sawmill and wood preservation industries fell to roughly 82,800 workers, the lowest level since 2010 after twelve straight quarterly declines.
High-flood-risk U.S. counties lost over 63,000 more residents than they gained in 2025–nearly double the prior year’s outflow. Flood-prone places are losing residents partly because of climate risk. Some residents are leaving in search of cheaper housing or different politics. Counties at low risk of flooding…
AI-driven data center growth is driving up construction demand, costs, and labor pressures.
CBRE analysis of how energy market disruptions from Middle East conflict are driving elevated construction material costs (6.6–10.7%) and building operating expenses globally, with regional variation and delayed budget impacts particularly affecting Europe and Asia-Pacific.
In May 2026, nonfarm payroll employment increased in 38 states with a net gain of 172,000 jobs nationally, while construction employment added 17,000 jobs with 23 states recording gains, though performance varied considerably across states. Over the 12-month period ending in May 2026, total nonfarm employment rose by 503,000 jobs nationally (0.3% gain), with construction employment increasing by 68,000 jobs (0.8% gain), though 19 states and D.C. experienced employment declines, and state unemployment rates ranged from 2.1% in South Dakota to 6.1% in D.C.
Home prices rose 0.3% month over month on a seasonally adjusted basis. Prices rose 2.5% on a year-over-year basis–the fastest growth rate in six months. On a local level, prices rose in 29 major metros month over month, with the biggest increases in Cleveland, Providence and New York. This is based on the Redfin…
More than half of homes are selling above asking price in Newark, San Francisco, San Jose and Nassau County, making them the most competitive markets in the nation. The AI boom is leading to bidding wars in the Bay Area, and in the Northeast, many metros are seller’s markets. The least competitive markets are in…
BGO chief economist Ryan Severino argues weak job growth does not automatically signal recession.
Ranks U.S. markets by concentration of Fortune 500 corporate headquarters and the office-demand implications.
This is a real estate market outlook and forecast report published by CBRE on February 7, 2025, covering the Norway real estate market with focus on capital markets and economic factors, with geographic emphasis on Oslo and broader Norway within Europe.
The NAHB analysis compares net new jobs created in 2024 (approximately 1.8 million) against housing permits issued in 2023 (1.51 million units) to assess whether housing construction is keeping pace with employment-driven demand, finding an overall jobs-to-permits ratio of 1.2 and elevated ratios of 1.84 for single-family permits and 2.61 for multifamily permits. The document identifies metropolitan areas with the highest housing supply pressures (Fairbanks, Morgantown, Battle Creek) and lowest pressures (Weirton, Wheeling, Elkhart), attributing imbalances to factors including construction costs, labor shortages, land availability, and regulatory barriers, while noting that multifamily development has played a more significant role in high-demand markets than single-family construction.
The Chief Economist's Weekly Watch for June 22, 2026 covers three key developments affecting commercial real estate: May PCE inflation data released Thursday with implications for Treasury yields and refinancing assumptions; Federal Reserve communication shifts following Chair Kevin Warsh's first FOMC meeting, which shortened the statement and removed forward guidance while projections turned hawkish toward a possible rate hike; and the Federal Reserve's annual bank stress test results released Wednesday, which assume a severe global recession and commercial real estate stress while maintaining current capital requirements without resetting stress capital buffers.
Nearly half of U.S. home sellers gave concessions to buyers in May, the highest May share in our records Concessions were most common in Nashville, the nation’s strongest buyer’s market, where three-quarters of sellers handed out concessions to attract buyers. They were least common in the Bay Area and other…
Half the committee is now willing to discuss another rate hike this year.
Q1 2026 APAC economic and property market outlook.
Productivity gains rather than employment are driving output, with implications for CRE.
Job growth remained steady while inflation resurged, creating headwinds for consumer purchasing power and apartment demand.
Monthly RICS sentiment survey of UK residential sales and lettings conditions for May 2026.
Inflation accelerated to 4.2% in May 2026, the highest in three years, driven by surging energy costs.
If you’ve been anywhere near a development site over the past few years, you’ll know how brutal construction cost increases have been. From 2020, builders were dealing with material shortages, labour constraints and rapid price increases that turned feasibilities into guesswork. But in 2026, changes are afoot.…
Teodora Paligorova , and Toshihide Yorozu Outstanding mortgage debt in the commercial real estate (CRE) sector totaled $6 trillion at the end of 2024 including owner-occupied and nonowner-occupied real estate, multifamily mortgages, and loans backed by acquisition, development, and construction projects. Banks hold…
Karen Pence , Ben Ranish , and Michael Suher Mortgage servicing right (MSR) valuations decrease when mortgage default and prepayment rates increase, as is generally the case when the economy enters into recession. To estimate how large these MSR valuation declines could be for the banking sector in a severe…
Anna Tranfaglia and Erin Troland Historic swings in rents during the pandemic have driven increased interest in research on the financial impacts of rising rents on households. However, compared to homeowners with a mortgage, data on renters are scarce, limiting researchers’ ability to analyze the 28 percent of…