The Commerce Department’s report Friday showed how the slumping residential real estate market is affecting the national economy. The combination of slower sales and tighter lending led to the economy rising only 1.3 percent in the first quarter of 2007. Businesses are pulling back in the face of the slowdown as they do not want [...]
Morgan Stanley and Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust are teaming together to form a billion dollar fund to invest in shopping centers across the country. The REIT is aimed at upscale retail centers that are experiencing increasing rents and valuations. The open air shopping centers are some of the best performing real estate in [...]
The May issue of Realtor magazine is out. It includes an "economic report" by the National Association of Realtor’s chief economist, David Lereah. I thought I would share just a bit of his "Subprime Reckoning" article:
Now, about one in eight adjustable-rate loans (a quarter of which are subprime) totaling some $325 billion are [...]