Posted in October 31st, 2008
Here’s the final Daily Data Discussion post of the week – a look at the worst markets in our Multifamily Market Fundamentals Job Subscore rankings.
Economic news has been sobering for some time in the Midwest, and today’s rankings continue to support that trend. The manufacturing dependent local economies have a long way to go towards […]
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Posted in October 30th, 2008
Today let’s shift back to the world of multifamily investing and take a look at a very important parameter all investors must consider when looking at a market - jobs (that’s a four-letter word) and job growth.
Quite similarly to what was posted on Tuesday of this week - those who read our blog regularly as […]
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Posted in October 29th, 2008
Today we will continue with the same topic started in yesterday’s Daily Data Discussion post – looking today at the worst markets in our proprietary Single Family Market Fundamentals Demographic Subscore rankings.
We had several questions yesterday as to the sourcing of our data; we rely on a variety of sources for the information. Sources typically […]
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Posted in October 28th, 2008
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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Posted in October 27th, 2008
It’s Monday, and time to present another Daily Data Discussion post; today’s post is the second part of our look at Class C multifamily cap rates that was begun last Friday.
Interestingly we received a couple of emails on Friday from brokers chastising us for “creating false expectations” among investors regarding “these incredibly inflated cap rates […]
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Posted in October 24th, 2008
In today’s Daily Data Discussion post we’re going to shift back to the world of multifamily investing. Today we’re going to start a two day look at Class C multifamily cap rates, specifically looking at the highest Class Cap Rates in our database as of today.
As we’ve shared in prior posts, cap rates are of […]
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Posted in October 23rd, 2008
In today’s Daily Data Discussion post we’ll take a look at the worst performing cities in the nation according to the 2008 Milken Institute’s Best Cities ranking algorithm for large cities.
We neglected to mention yesterday that the Milken Institute team offers a ranking not only for the larger metroplexes around the country, but for smaller […]
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Posted in October 22nd, 2008
Let’s shift gears a bit in today’s Daily Data Discussion post and take a look at the Milken Institute’s Best City Rankings. We’ve posted in months past about the Milken Institute’s Best City rankings – typically they had been published in odd numbered years, though this year the Milken Institute team elected to change to […]
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Posted in October 21st, 2008
Yesterday’s Daily Data Discussion post took a look at markets around the country with the highest percentage of total employment in the leisure and hospitality supersector. Today we’ll take a look at the markets with the lowest percentage of employment in this supersector.
Sorry, couldn’t resist the beach resort picture today - it’s snowing (for the […]
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Posted in October 20th, 2008
In today’s Daily Data Discussion post we’re going to take a look at markets around the country with the highest percentage of their total workforce employed in the Leisure and Hospital supersector.
It’s been a few months since we’ve done this; it’s important to follow this sector carefully, not only for multifamily investors, but for buy […]
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Posted in October 17th, 2008
Today’s Daily Data Discussion post will go back to the world of multifamily investing, and complete our two day look at the best and worst markets ranked in terms of our proprietary Multifamily Demographic Subscores (part of our Multifamily Market Fundamentals Scoring system).
If you missed yesterday’s Daily Data Discussion post, please scroll back to review […]
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Posted in October 16th, 2008
In today’s Daily Data Discussion post let’s shift back to the world of multifamily investing, and look specifically at the Demographic subscores in our Multifamily Market Fundamental Scoring system.
When analyzing a market to rank its emerging / recovering market potential, we look very carefully at the demographics of the market. We consider a number of […]
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Posted in October 15th, 2008
We’re back again today in the Daily Data Discussion post looking at the Housing Affordability Index; yesterday we looked at the markets around the country with the highest HAI values. Today’s markets are indeed those with the lowest HAI values – the least affordable markets in terms of single family housing costs.
Who is perhaps most […]
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Posted in October 14th, 2008
In today’s Daily Data Discussion post we’re going to look at markets around the country that have the highest Housing Affordability Index values.
Yes, we know there are some rationale criticisms of the housing affordability index (HAI), and have in fact written about many of the criticisms of the tool in the August issue of our […]
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Posted in October 13th, 2008
Last Friday in our Daily Data Discussion post we took a look at the markets around the country with the highest average Class B multifamily unit price per door values. As noted the highest ranking markets were significantly above the average.
Today let’s take a look at the markets with the lowest Class B multifamily PPD […]
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