The baby boomer generation began turning 65 in 2011 and in the next nine years, the whole generation will be 65-or-older. A report from the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard found that by 2035 one out of every three U.S. households will be headed by someone over...
For years investment in the cold storage sector has been overlooked. This has started to change in recent years, primarily driven by more consumers ordering their groceries online instead buying them in-store. The Food and Marketing Institute and Nielsen project that groceries ordered online will make-up 13% of total...
Home prices are up more than 13%, the fastest growth rate since 2005, according to the Case-Shiller Home Price Index. That marks the tenth straight month of accelerating home prices. The March gain, the latest month for which there is data for, is one of the largest in the...
Every day on CNBC and Bloomberg there seems to be a heated argument between two pundits debating whether cryptocurrencies are humanity’s greatest breakthrough since the controlled use of fire was pioneered in the early Stone Ages or whether they are the biggest scam since Enron. There is growing consensus...
Many of the largest costal and midwestern population centers recorded their lowest population gains in over a decade this past year. This is primarily driven by domestic out-migration (people moving from one state to another), lower immigration levels, and a declining birth rate. Even before Covid-19, many of the...
The May jobs report will be coming out on Friday and may have large implications for the future path of interest rates and real estate valuations. Consumer prices recently jumped the most since the summer of 2008, 4.2% for the year, up from 2.6% in the prior month. April’s...
Co-Working firms have gotten a bad rep over the past few years. The downfall of the once hot startup, WeWork, has made co-working firms synonyms with being overvalued and overbuilt, but will things change in the post-Covid economy? Covid-19 showed that many companies can have their employees working from...
The American mall was born out of President Eisenhower’s Federal-Aid Highway Act, which allowed people to drive to their jobs in cities while living in the new suburbs of the 1950s. While suburban population centers grew exponentially in the 1950s and 1960s, these new towns lacked the proper retail...
Demand for larger living arrangements during the Covid-19 pandemic has fueled a single-family housing boom in the United States. Higher demand for single-family homes along with a labor shortage and raw-material inflation has sent housing prices skyrocketing across most states. The main driver of housing inflation in the U.S....
Inflation is due to rise to its highest level in 14 years as squeezed supply chains and pent-up consumer demand is putting pressure on prices, particularly for raw materials. The Bloomberg Commodity Spot Index, which tracks 23 raw materials, is at its highest level in almost a decade. Raw...
