Archive for November, 2008
Posted in November 29th, 2008
Given the holiday week we’re in the office this morning putting the final wrap on the changes our editor has requested for the December edition of the The Emerging Market Report. The December issue will be ready for our subscribers on Monday.
Here’s the rundown of what this month’s newsletter will feature –
Multifamily Feature: What’s On […]
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Posted in November 29th, 2008
The price of greatness is responsibility. – Winston Churchill
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Posted in November 28th, 2008
In today’s Daily Data Discussion let’s shift gears yet again to very useful subject – Job Growth / Supply Growth ratios.
This is a metric that we track as part of our multifamily data package. We’ve shared about it here in the blog before as well as in The Emerging Market Report newsletter. Simply put, the […]
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Posted in November 28th, 2008
Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people. – Hugh C. Cameron
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Posted in November 27th, 2008
The entire team here at Redfish Emerging Markets wishes you and yours a very happy Thanksgiving.
We’d encourage you to take the time to appreciate and value your family and friends, enjoy some great fellowship and food, and take a bit of time today to be genuinely thankful and appreciative for all the good things in […]
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Posted in November 27th, 2008
Recently I had the pleasure of speaking with a very sophisticated woman who happens to live in the heart of a fashionable part of New York City. We had discussed a couple of real estate markets in detail when she asked me if she could ask a personal question.
She was literally amazed that my family and […]
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Posted in November 27th, 2008
To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious. – Samuel Butler
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Posted in November 26th, 2008
There’s another bit of single family home news making the rounds today – the Census Bureau released their data on new home sales for October, and again some pundits are talking about the end of the housing market as we know it.
We’d encourage the thoughtful real estate investor and other interested parties to take a […]
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Posted in November 26th, 2008
Continuing the discussion about financial services supersector employment growth begun in yesterday’s Daily Data Discussion post, today we’ll look at the markets in our database that have the worst growth (meaning job less) in the supersector.
While the failure of a single large financial institution could change the numbers in a given market almost overnight, there are some […]
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Posted in November 26th, 2008
Difficulty is the nurse of greatness. – William Cullen Bryant
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Posted in November 25th, 2008
Unbelievably it’s Case-Shiller day once again (what a fast November) – and the data is driving the usual media-heads and pundits into a frenzy yet again.
The Composite 10 is off 23.4 percent from its peak, the Composite 20 is off 21.8 percent from its peak, and the data you’ll hear the most about today – […]
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Posted in November 25th, 2008
Yesterday’s big single family housing news was the NAR’s report on existing home sales – their press release was titled “Existing-Home Sales Soften on Economic Volatility”.
Here’s the opening salvo of the press release including some NAR spin –
Existing-home sales – including single-family, townhomes, condominiums and co-ops – fell 3.1 percent to a seasonally adjusted […]
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Posted in November 25th, 2008
In today’s Daily Data Discussion let’s shift gears a bit and take a look at the embattled financial services supersector in terms of supersector job growth at the market level.
Bank and financial institution closures continue to make headlines, even though the absolute number of bank closures / failures has been relatively low thus far. One […]
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Posted in November 25th, 2008
A really great man is known by three signs – generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success. – Otto Eduard Bismarck
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Posted in November 24th, 2008
Here are three Monday must reads covering a wide range of topics.
First, take a look at Chris Whalen’s “What Barack Obama Needs to Know About Tim Geithner, the AIG Fiasco, and Citigroup”. This insightful piece is up over on Barry Ritholtz’s blog, and here’s a quick look at Whalen’s bio for those that don’t know […]
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