For the leaders of some of the biggest investment vehicles in commercial real estate, the matter of whether the U.S. is on the verge of a recession is no longer a question of if, but when. Less than 24 hours after the Federal Reserve lifted interest rates by 0.75 percentage points, fund managers and other finance executives gathered [...]
Payoff will save Industry property owners over $49 million annually and will deliver over $36 million to local taxing entities including school districts, special districts and the County During today’s Industry City Council meeting, Finance Director, Yamini Pathak, announced that in July, the City had paid off the last three (bonds) of a total [...]
Slowing asset growth would be the key according to First American Financial Corporation According to a First American Financial Corporation analysis, cap rates might finally start to recover some of their value. The firm’s potential capitalization rate (PCR) model for the first quarter of 2022 “estimates capitalization rates based on the historical relationship between [...]
Lawmakers Approve Measure Aimed at Limiting Locations of New Inland Empire Industrial Buildings The latest effort to rein in what critics see as the creep of warehouse development near residential areas around the country took a step forward in California, where state legislators are seeking to clamp down on one of the nation's biggest [...]
The key to CRE as an inflationary hedge is that cash flow of properties must increase enough to counteract any rise in cap rate. Commercial real estate has long been regarded as an inflation hedge, but economists from Moody’s Analytics say that adage will be tested this month as the Fed begins the first [...]
Federal Reserve approves first interest rate hike in more than three years, see six more ahead The Fed’s move on Wednesday attempts to address soaring prices by making it more costly to borrow money. It raised what is know as the federal funds rate, the interest rate banks use to lend money to each [...]
The Federal Reserve announced it will hold its policy rate near zero but it expects to begin raising rates “soon,” which Fed watchers widely interpret to mean at its next meeting. The statement implies that the central bank's policy goal of maximum employment appears to have been reached, allowing committee members to focus on [...]
The Federal Reserve Open Market Committee announced some significant changes in monetary policy: a faster tapering of bond purchases and the possibility of as many as three rate hikes in 2022. The reasons are concern about inflation, which has been more dogged than the institution had expected, and an improved job landscape. The question [...]
