Posted in November 21st, 2008
In today’s Daily Data Discussion post let’s shift gears yet again and take a look at total non farm job growth.
Not to be overly repetitive for our regular readers – we track the total non farm job growth rates (annualized) reported monthly by the BLS and track a 6-month rolling average of the information for […]
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Posted in November 20th, 2008
Continuing the theme from yesterday’s Daily Data Discussion post, let’s take a quick look today at the lowest ranking cities in the Milken Institute’s 2008 Best Performing Cities Index for Small Cities.
A word of respectful caution with regard to the Milken Institute’s rankings – like any other team (ours included) looking at a large “pile” […]
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Posted in November 19th, 2008
Let’s shift gears today and revisit the Milken Institute’s 2008 Best Performing Cities Index, only for the next couple of days let’s look at what the Milken teams calls the small city rankings.
We’ve reviewed the Milken Institutes Best Performing Cities ranking data for large cities here, and explained previously the factors that are considered. Here’s […]
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Posted in November 18th, 2008
In today’s Daily Data Discussion post we’ll finish the discussion started yesterday by looking at the markets around the country with the lowest Class A multifamily cap rates around the country.
A couple of emails came in once again asking about the sourcing of the data. The values presented here have been obtained in interviews conducted […]
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Posted in November 17th, 2008
Today’s Daily Data Discussion post will revisit the markets around the country with the highest Class A multifamily cap rates around the country.
As we’ve detailed before we don’t utilize cap rates in deriving the market rankings for multifamily markets given the very strong local and regional influences on cap rate values. Cap rates do seem […]
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Posted in November 14th, 2008
Continuing our look at multifamily permitting from yesterday – today let’s look at multifamily markets around the country with the lowest gains (or losses) in permitting 2007 to 2008.
As noted in yesterday’s Daily Data Discussion post, the emerging / recovering market multifamily investor is constantly seeking markets that have a demand driver (population growth and/ […]
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Posted in November 13th, 2008
Today let’s shift back to the world of multifamily investing and take a look at markets around the country with the largest increases in multifamily permitting from 2007 to 2008.
Emerging / recovering market multifamily investors are constantly on the prowl for markets that are experiencing population and job growth in a setting of historically low […]
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Posted in November 12th, 2008
Today let’s continue the look at growth in the professional and business services supersector – today surveying the worst five markets in terms of growth in this supersector. In today’s economy that means job losses, and in this supersector – there are probably many more jobs to be lost in this arena in markets across […]
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Posted in November 11th, 2008
Let’s shift gears today in our Daily Data Discussion and take a look at employment growth in the professional and business services supersector.
As with all of the job growth and employment metrics that we track in our database here at Redfish Emerging Markets, we follow a six-month rolling average of the monthly reported (annualized) growth […]
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Posted in November 10th, 2008
With today’s Daily Data Discussion post let’s shift back to the world of single family to look at single family building permits; we started this particular assessment last Friday – looking at the markets around the country (in our database) with the most impressive losses in single family permitting over the past three years.
Yes, most […]
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Posted in November 7th, 2008
In today’s Daily Data Discussion post let’s shift back to the world of single family to look at single family building permits.
During the construction frenzy of the past decade we’ve been genuinely impressed with the sheer volume of new construction that was undertaken in the single family world in some (make that most) markets.
We’ve been […]
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Posted in November 6th, 2008
Ah, yesterday’s Daily Data Discussion post hit upon a topic of interest given website traffic yesterday, and judging from the volume of email we received on the topic.
Of course emerging market / recovering market real estate investors tend to most often be genuine, died-in-the-wool value hunters – most of the queries we received yesterday had […]
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Posted in November 5th, 2008
Let’s shift gears away from politics and back to the world of multifamily investing today; specifically the price per door costs of Class C Multifamily units around the country.
Price per door values for Class A, B, and C multifamily units are one of the interesting data points that we track around the country. It’s always impressive […]
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Posted in November 4th, 2008
Today’s Daily Data Discussion post will continue on a theme from yesterday looking at the percentage of total employment that government jobs make up in a market – today we’ll look at markets with the lowest percent of employment in the government sector.
Don’t forget – if you’ve not done so already – today is your […]
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Posted in November 3rd, 2008
In today’s Daily Data Discussion let’s take a look at markets around the country with the highest percentage of their total workforce employment in government related employ. Honestly – this topic was on our repeating schedule for Daily Data Discussion posts (generated over a year ago) for today and tomorrow – somewhat ironic considering that […]
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