Posted in October 10th, 2008
For our next two Daily Data Discussion posts we’re going to stick with multifamily related topics, specifically price per door values for Class B multifamily units across the country.
As we’ve noted before when sharing this information back in the summer, we don’t consider price per door values when computing market rankings using our proprietary Multifamily […]
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Posted in October 9th, 2008
A good question came in yesterday evening regarding yesterday’s post about the best multifamily rental rate gain markets; the question asked what asset class (or classes) did the data cover? When we query brokers and PMs about the data, we asked them to summarize their impression and data regarding rental rates gains across the board, […]
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Posted in October 8th, 2008
Let’s shift back to the world of multifamily metrics for today’s Daily Data Discussion post – specifically looking at the markets around the country with the largest gains in rental rates over the past year.
As noted in multiple citations in both our blog and on the website, we derive market information from interviews with multiple […]
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Posted in October 7th, 2008
In yesterday’s Daily Data Discussion we looked at markets around the country with the highest percentage of total employment in the education and health sector; today we’ll look at markets with the lowest percentage of total employment in this sector.
A reminder from yesterday – don’t’ forget that when thinking about this sector in some markets […]
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Posted in October 6th, 2008
Today’s Daily Data Discussion will focus on markets with the strongest health and education section employment in the country, at least in terms of the markets that we’re studying and tracking in our database.
As always, a reasonable question would be to ask why think about this sector’s employment numbers? Surely you heard the very sobering […]
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Posted in October 3rd, 2008
In contrast to yesterday’s Daily Data Discussion post information, today’s data might surprise you a bit.
Despite the information that we shared from some of the worst single family home markets in the country yesterday, and despite what you hear reflected in the media every day (huge national unsold home inventory) – there are markets around […]
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Posted in October 2nd, 2008
In today’s Daily Data Discussion we’ve chosen to remain focused on the single family world for another couple of days, and will start with a look at markets with the largest inventories of unsold single family homes and condos.
A couple of days ago we mentioned what a challenge it can be to get accurate median single […]
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Posted in October 1st, 2008
Despite our admonition in yesterday’s Daily Data Discussion post not to email and tell us what idiots we are for using median home price data in our analytics – several witty emails rocketed our way through cyberspace yesterday.
Here’s my favorite –
You guys are dumb*****. Median home prices dont mean nothine (sic) and are given by […]
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Posted in September 30th, 2008
It’s time once again in our Daily Data Discussion to look at median home prices, and today we’ll start by looking at the markets in our database with the highest median single family home prices in the country.
For those who see the word “median home price” and immediately have an impulse to email us and […]
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Posted in September 29th, 2008
Last Friday we took a look at the markets around the country with the highest percentages of their total workforce employed in the service sectors; today we’ll take a look at the markets with the lowest.
An interesting aside about last Friday’s data – the top three markets in last Friday’s list, all in Texas, are […]
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Posted in September 26th, 2008
Let’s shift gears once again in today’s Daily Data Discussion and take a look at markets around the country with the highest percentage of employees working in service sector jobs. As many investors also do, we often think of these core market employees as “the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker”.
Why the interest in service sector […]
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Posted in September 25th, 2008
Yesterday we took a look at markets around the country with the highest multifamily occupancy rates. We know – for most multifamily investors, that induces a yawn and turn of the page looking for the markets with the lowest occupancies.
Emerging market investors are obviously most interested in markets with economic and population growth stimuli to […]
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Posted in September 24th, 2008
One of the metrics that multifamily investors follow with great interest is data pertaining to occupancy. Emerging market multifamily investors are particularly interested in markets with lower occupancies – we’ll be discussing those markets tomorrow.
There is no question that the single family housing debacle and the current credit crisis have driven multifamily occupancies over the […]
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Posted in September 23rd, 2008
Yesterday we took a look at markets around the country with the highest rates of growth (over the past 6 months) in the manufacturing employment supersector.
Interestingly we received several emails deriding our mention of the Rust Belt’s loss of automotive jobs. We are genuinely sorry that some of our readers find that news unpalatable; however, […]
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Posted in September 22nd, 2008
In today’s Daily Data Discussion post let’s shift gears once again and take a look at manufacturing employment, specifically which markets have demonstrated the most impressive gains in manufacturing supersector growth over the past six months.
Historically over the past decade as emerging market investors we’ve looked somewhat askance at manufacturing jobs given trends in the […]
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