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Apartment rent growth matches wage gains in June

Zillow reports that US median apartment rent rose a seasonally adjusted 2.6% in June, year over year. This growth rate, lower than in recent months, matches gains in average hourly wages. Read full story

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Brexit: Minor Headache or Migraine?

U.S. commercial real estate will feel the effects as investors seek out the relative stability of both the U.S. and private commercial real estate. Read full story

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1031 Buyers Compete for Replacement Properties

Heightened competition for replacement properties is spurring 1031 exchange investors to expand their criteria to include a broader geographic scope and more property types. Read full story

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Brexit market reaction bodes well for US REITs

US REITs stand to benefit from the uncertainty created by the UK’s vote to leave the EU as foreign investors seek safety and yield, experts say. Brexit is driving down the yield on 10-year Treasurys, which drives real estate up, said Alexander Goldfarb, senior REIT analyst at Sandler O’Neill. Read full story

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IMF lowers forecast for US growth rate to 2.2%

The International Monetary Fund lowered its outlook for US economic growth for 2016 to 2.2%, down from the 2.4% it had forecast in April. The IMF also forecasts that the eurozone countries will post 1.5% growth this year, and Japan will grow 0.5%. Read full story

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Fund manager: US CMBS a good investment now

Structured credit products such as US commercial mortgage-backed securities, leveraged loans and residential mortgages are good investments now because they are insulated from global events such as Britain’s referendum on EU membership or Chinese currency devaluation, says Troy Gayeski, senior fund manager at SkyBridge. Read full story

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Fed slows plan for rate increases

The Federal Reserve’s policymaking committee has decided against raising its key interest rate and says increases will be implemented more slowly than previously anticipated. The decision to delay an increase was backed by every member of the committee, including Esther George, who had voted at recent meetings for a rate hike. Read full story

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Divorce Rate Drives Demand for Multifamily Properties

What owners need to know to cater to this growing demographic. Read full story

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Sovran buying privately held LifeStorage in $1.3B deal

Sovran Self Storage REIT is acquiring privately owned LifeStorage, which operates 92 facilities, for about $1.3 billion. Sovran, whose brand is called Uncle Bob’s Self Storage, is paying cash for the acquisition. Read full story

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Dispositions remain the focus for top apartment REITs

The three largest multifamily REITs, Equity Residential, Camden Property Trust and AvalonBay, are continuing to sell more assets than they buy. Read full story

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Central banks are dumping America’s debt at a re...

China, Russia and Brazil sold off U.S. Treasury bonds as they tried to soften the blow of the global economic slowdown. They each sold off at least $1 billion in U.S. Treasury bonds in March. Read full story

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Multifamily Investors Seek More Value-Add Deals

Higher prices on apartment properties have squeezed the yields for investors. Value-add investments offer an opportunity to push those yields higher. Read full story

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Reis: The Apartment Sector’s Run Is Almost Over

Research firm says supply is outpacing demand. Read full story

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Higher CMBS Defaults Expected in 2016

Defaults on CMBS loans have been on a steady downward slope for the past five years, falling to an annual rate of 0.39 percent in 2015. Read full story

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Apartment rent growth slowed in Q1

Effective apartment rents increased 4.5% in the first quarter compared with a year ago, according to Reis. That was a slight drop from the 5% growth at the end of 2015. The vacancy rate increased to 4.5% in Q1 from 4.4% in the previous quarter. A year ago, the vacancy rate was 4.2%. Read full story

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Sun Communities to pay $1.68B for Carefree Communities

Sun Communities said it has reached an agreement to pay an affiliate of Centerbridge Capital Partners $1.68 billion for Carefree Communities. Carefree owns and operates manufactured housing and recreational vehicle communities in Florida and California. Read full story

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Fed slows its plan for raising rates

The Federal Reserve has left interest rates unchanged in response to slowing economic growth and says rate increases will come more slowly than planned this year. The Fed also has downgraded its outlook for economic growth this year to 2.2% from 2.4%. Read full story

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Foreign investors spent record $91.1B on US property l...

Foreign investors in US properties continue to show robust appetite for these assets this year, according to Real Capital Analytics. Last year they acquired $91.1 billion in US properties, more than double the amount spent in 2014. Investors from Canada, China, Europe, Korea and Singapore are particularly active. Read full story

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Fed expected to leave interest rates unchanged this we...

The Federal Reserve has signaled that it wants more time to analyze economic data before moving interest rates higher. With a rate hike probably off the agenda, economists will watch this week to see how the central bank views the world’s economies and financial markets. Read full story

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Why Live in New York

In contrast with New York City’s urban atmosphere, the vast majority of the state is dominated by farms, forests, rivers, mountains, and lakes. New York’s Adirondack Park is the largest state park in the United States. It is larger than the Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Glacier and Olympic National Parks combined. New York established the first state park in the United States at Niagara …

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Manhattan Apartments

In Manhattan, uptown means north (more precisely north-northeast, which is the direction the island and its street grid system is oriented) and downtown means south (south-southwest). This usage differs from that of most American cities, where downtown refers to the central business district. Manhattan has two central business districts, the Financial District at the southern tip of the island, and Midtown Manhattan. The term …

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Property execs confident in US markets

Commercial real estate executives are more confident in the US economy than in the global market, and they see volatility in overseas financial markets as beneficial for US real estate, according to a first-ever survey by Altus Group, NAREIT and the National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries. Respondents said they don’t expect property values to keep appreciating at a double-digit pace, even as …

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Lenders Exercise More Caution on Multifamily Construct...

As the multifamily construction pipeline ramps up and new regulations go into effect banks think twice before issuing construction loans on new apartment properties. Read full story

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CMBS delinquencies fall below 3%

Delinquencies on commercial mortgage-backed security loans fell 109 basis points in January to 2.93%, according to Fitch Ratings. The sale of Peter Cooper Village/Stuyvesant Town was largely responsible for the drop. Read full story

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Stress-Tested Every Way, Freddie Mac Finds MF Is Still...

WASHINGTON, DC—The multifamily market accelerated in 2015 and will build on that momentum this year, according to Freddie… Read full story

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Cap Rates Fall in Secondary and Tertiary Markets

The spreads are now more in line with those in the six major metros. Read full story

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China GDP: Slowdown or Deterioration?

Economic growth in China has clearly slowed over the past few years, and data released this morning indicated the slowdown continued in Q4 2015. Full year growth for 2015 ended up roughly half a percentage point below the rate registered in 2014, with most of the deceleration concentrated in the country’s industrial and construction sectors. Read full story

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RKF CEO: Why retail rental rates will continue rising

RKF CEO Robert Futterman says retail rents in US cities such as New York, Miami and Chicago should continue to increase because it is still important for retailers’ corporate identities to have a brick-and-mortar presence. Residential growth and international tourism are also boosting retail. Read full story

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What Does the Central Bank Canoe Theory Mean for Inves...

While the anticipated path of future Fed rate hikes is likely not in and of itself a significant threat to commercial real estate cap rates, wise investors will keep an eye on two interest rate-related factors that could negatively impact cap rates and catch the myopic investor off guard. Read full story

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Top News Multifamily market’s strength draws new...

Continued high demand for apartments is attracting more investment, including companies that traditionally focus on office, retail and single-family homes. These new entrants are driving up land costs, some say. Much of the new supply is being built for the high end of the market. Read full story

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US property could benefit from China’s volatilit...

Blackstone Group acquired $9.6 billion of real estate in the New York area last year, the most of any company, according to Real Capital Analytics. It sold $4.2 billion worth of local assets. Altogether, Blackstone was involved in 21% of all commercial property transactions in Manhattan. Read full story

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Sales slump prompts Macy’s to cut jobs, rethink ...

Macy’s reported a 4.7% decline in existing-store sales for November and December. The retailer said it would cut as many as 4,800 jobs and hire more advisers to consider joint ventures for its real estate holdings. Macy’s and other traditional retailers are struggling as shoppers seek off-price chains and do more shopping online. Read full story

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Apartment rent increases rising at fastest pace in yea...

Average effective apartment rents nationwide rose 4.6% last year to nearly $1,180, Reis reports. This was the fastest pace since 2007. According to Axiometrics, multifamily rents rose 4.7% in the fourth quarter year over year, the strongest performance since 2005 for that quarter. Read full story

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Foreign JV buys US student-housing portfolio for $1.4B

A joint venture consisting of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Singapore’s GIC Pte. and the Scion Group LLC is making a $1.4 billion acquisition in the US student-housing market. It has acquired University House Communities Group from InvenTrust Properties Corp. The JV, in which CPPIB and GIC own 47.5% each and Scion owns 5%, says it wants to make other student-housing acquisitions. Read …

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Fed’s large reverse repo award to help push up i...

Moving to drain liquidity from the US financial system, the Federal Reserve made the third-largest reverse repurchase agreement award ever Wednesday. The auction awarded $277.45 billion of one-day fixed-rate reverse repos carrying a 0.25% interest rate to 82 bidders. Read full story

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2016 will test US bull market, analysts say

Analysts expect 2016 to be marked by a continued conflict between the Federal Reserve’s efforts to raise interest rates in a strengthening job market and attempts to lower rates around the world amid China’s economic slump. Investors expect another difficult year of tumultuous markets and narrow profit margins. Read full story

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Investor demand for real estate could rise with new ca...

Some analysts expect demand for real estate securities to increase after August, when MSCI and S&P Dow Jones Indices create a new category for real estate instead of including it in the broader group of financial companies. Investment firms are developing new real estate funds in response to the change, and portfolio managers are expected to pay more attention to real estate. Read full …

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FIRPTA changes could bring billions in new investment

Congress’ approval of the Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act of 2015 last week included new provisions for the Foreign Investment in Real Property Tax Act that could bring an additional $20 billion to $30 billion of foreign investment, according to Kenneth Rosen, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Read full story

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New Crowdfunding Ruling/Apartment Rent Trends/Seniors ...

New ruling gives crowdfunding firms access to non-accredited investors. Apartment rents rising faster than incomes. Are prices for seniors housing too frothy? Read full story

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How Per-Bed and Per-Unit Student Housing Properties Di...

Fundamentals in the student housing sector advanced at a healthy pace during the 2014-2015 school year, mirroring the performance of the greater multifamily sector. Student housing is categorized by buildings leased on a per-unit basis and those leased on a per-bed basis. Facilities that lease by the unit exhibited rent growth of 3.4 percent between the third quarter of 2014 and the third quarter of …

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