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Dividend Capital’s Real Estate Cycles Q1 2016 — Dr. Glenn Mueller
This is my favorite quarterly blog — Dr. Glenn Mueller’s Real Estate Cycles from Dividend Capital. Such a mass density of data in so little space. Let’s talk commercial real estate markets in the...
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DrTCJ’s Tweets April 29, 2016 Through June 23, 2016
For those of you that do not Tweet – you should consider doing so. If you want to talk about effective bang for the buck, the 140 total characters, letters, numbers and spaces of a Tweet on Twitter...
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Another Top-10 List — The Highest (and Lowest) Yielding Single Family Rental...
A surprising ongoing trend of this housing recovery is the resilience of owners of single family investment rental properties not to sell them back to owner-occupiers. As I wrote in a March 30, 2016...
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Another Top-10 List — Best Markets for Budget-Minded Residential Investors
As a massive number of distressed properties came to the market in the midst of the housing bubble implosion, investors literally became a sponge in absorbing some of the excess. In the fall of 2012,...
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Another Top-10 List — Best (and Worst) Markets for Renters to Become Homeowners
When it comes to homeownership, one size does not fit all. There are markets that have comparably higher rents that favor homeownership. Some markets are highly expensive to own a home versus renting....
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The Three Bears Paradox — Job Growth & Housing Permits 1999-2015
While we overbuilt numerous residential markets prior to the housing bubble implosion, many did not fall under the same supply excesses. These markets may have experienced price ballooning, but an...
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Another Top-10 List — Best U.S. Cities for First-Time Homebuyers
Where are the best markets for first-time homebuyers? This is not easy to answer as there are a myriad of variables to consider– the first and foremost is having a job. First time homebuyers, according...
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Another Top-10 List — Best Military Markets to Invest in Single Family Rentals
There are types of towns that will always have heavy rental housing demands: college towns and military base markets. Military markets, however, have year-round occupants while college and university...
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Another Top-10 List — Most Popular States Where Out-of-State Buyers Own...
“The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence,” is an appropriate phrase at least part of the time when it comes to ownership of single-family rental properties. ATTOM Data Solutions...
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Another Top-10 (and Bottom-10) List — How Much Rent Would Be Expressed in...
The number of renters today is at an all-time record. From a percentage perspective, today there are more renters than any time in the past 50 years. Since the housing bubble burst and the...
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Another Top-10 List — Most Affordable Cities for 2017 Job Seekers
Jobs are everything to the economy and to the ultimate demand for housing and commercial real estate. I vividly recall the father of one of my undergraduate students when at Texas A&M that was...
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Another Top-10 List — Apartment Rents January 2017
Apartment rents nationwide fell for the fourth consecutive month based on a National Apartment Rent Index (not seasonally adjusted), and were down in 51 of the 100 largest U.S. cities in the latest...
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Dividend Capital’s Q4 2016 Commercial Real Estate Cycles Report
Once again one of my favorite quarterly blogs – writing on Dr. Glenn Mueller’s Real Estate Cycles from Dividend Capital. Such a mass density of valuable data in so little space. Powerful. Dr. Mueller’s...
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Another Top-10 List — Most (and Least) Expensive ZIP Codes for Renters
While there are markets that pay more than others to workers, many of those same markets have greater living expenses – with the largest being rent. Once again I invoke the invoke the TINSTAANREM axiom...
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Residential Buy Versus Rent by State
One of the largest decisions anyone makes is whether to purchase or rent a home. The answer is not always straight forward. Many factors are required to reach a financial solution: home price,...
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Another Top-10 List — Oldest (and Youngest) Homeowner Average Age by Metro
There is one statement that is almost always true among the majority of homeowners: Homeownership is an older person’s game. The key word is majority. While younger people buy housing every day,...
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Where Americans are Moving — 2018
Having grown up in a small town in Southwestern Colorado that had only one radio station, you listened to whatever music they played – at least until sunset when radio skipwaves bounced off the...
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Rents-Mortgages-Income and Housing by State — Buying is Better Than You Might...
For most people the housing question is either to rent or buy. Buying is not for everyone, however. It has material transactions costs, typically requires a down payment, pre-requisite for...
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The Three Bears Paradox on Housing Construction — Too Much, Too Little or...
New housing construction — whether for owner-occupied properties or rentals — is a risky business. Just like the story of Goldilocks and the three bears, the question is, “Are we building too much...
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Renter’s Insurance and Another Top-10 List — States with the Most (and Least)...
An estimated 34.9 percent of U.S. households are renters (65.1 percent homeowners) according to the latest estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau as of Q4 2019. While the average net worth of...
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