Ah – one of our favorite days of the month around the office every month – Case-Shiller data day.  It’s time once again for the breathless media to crow about what a disaster the nation’s single family market is – once again making the oft-repeated error of assuming that as the CSI data goes, so […]

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We’ve had a very impressive number of visitors to our website in the past few weeks either call or email with questions about the applicability of our local multifamily market analysis to the world of self-storage. 
Very recently we’ve helped a group analyze Houston submarkets for acquisition of a pair of self-storage assets, and there’s no […]

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Yesterday the Census Bureau released their data on new home sales; no doubt you’ve heard the news cycle by now lamenting that new home sales are perhaps the worst since the Census Bureau starting keeping records in this category since 1963. 
2008 is certainly turning out to be the worst new home sales year in a […]

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 Recent Economic Development Updates for Salem include:
The Salem area will host yet another solar energy company…SANYO Solar of Oregon broke ground in mid-October on a new manufacturing facility, the sixth new manufacturing facility to come to the area in the last 16 months.  The 130,000 sq. ft. facility will manufacture silicon ingots and should open […]

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Let’s shift gears back to the world of single family today, and take a look at the top markets in our proprietary Single Family Market Fundamentals Demographic Subscore rankings. 
Those who read our blog regularly as well as our newsletter subscribers are familiar with how we derive our Market Fundamental Scores; a number of metrics are […]

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 “Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement.” – Henri Frederic Amiel
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