Rising shelter prices keep core inflation high. The average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage climbed above 7.5 percent in October, marking a 23-year peak. Previous Federal Reserve actions have increased interest rates, which — in conjunction with higher home prices — have resulted in more expensive housing costs. The shelter index lifted 7.2 percent year-over-year in September, driven by…

The forces pushing the 10-year treasury higher How the rising 10-year affects CRE investors Real estate interest rate trends and outlook

Yahoo Finance Features Marcus & Millichap CEO Hessam Nadji Will Commercial Real Estate Cause a Banking Crisis? Is Office Real Estate About to Crash? Why perceptions of CRE distress don’t line-up with reality Why commercial real estate doesn’t pose a systemic risk to the banking sector When the CRE market will recalibrate and start moving back to normal  

What are the main drivers motivating owners to sell today? What does the volume of capital likely to enter the market mean for investors? Will investor activity revive and increase competition for assets?

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Staffing additions hit eight-month high, holding unemployment flat. Employers across the country created 336,000 new jobs in September, above the year-to-date monthly average of 260,000, and the strongest month for hiring since January. Employment growth occurred across a broad range of industries, led by the onboarding of 96,000…

Fed opts for a rate hike hiatus. On September 20, the Federal Open Market Committee announced there would be no change in the federal funds rate, while the institution would continue to reduce securities holdings. This will maintain the current lower bound of 5.25 percent first set in July, and mark the second meeting in 2023 during which the Fed chose to forgo a rate increase. Labor market dynamics played a major role in the… Read More

A soft landing is the favored outlook, but could the Fed still cause a recession? The key indicators investors should be monitoring How investors can position for what’s ahead

The federal reserve held rates flat for September – What comes next? Why the Federal Reserve’s decision could be a watershed moment for CRE How flat rates could influence the CRE lending climate

Core pricing pressures subside further. The headline consumer price index rose 3.7 percent year-over-year in August, the second month in a row that the metric ticked up. While this could suggest a re-acceleration of price hikes, the cyclical nature of the increase suggests that inflation is still broadly slowing. Over one-half of the rise was due to a…