by grsgrouptest | Jun 6, 2017 | Blog
The May jobs report by the Fed, had both good and potentially negative news for commercial real estate. The unemployment rate is now apparently at 4.3 percent, the lowest since 2001. And though economists forecasted an increase of about 185,000 new jobs in May, the...
by Michael Gerard | Mar 15, 2016 | Blog
The anticipation is not ending when it comes to interest rates. At the beginning of the year, economists seemed pretty confident that rates would increase this month. Now, the consensus seems to be that the Fed will wait until June to bump up rates. Fed officials are...
by Michael Gerard | Jan 6, 2016 | Blog
People involved in the commercial real estate business have been wringing their hands over a possible interest-rate hike by the Fed for about a year. Well, it’s happening, and a comet is not hitting the earth, contrary to what some might have thought. The rate...
by Michael Gerard | Dec 22, 2015 | Blog
A gateway market in the United States is debatable. New York City, the San Francisco area, parts of Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., are where foreign investors have typically liked to place their money. Areas of Texas have now been considered gateway cities, and now...
by Ian Ritter | Nov 12, 2015 | Blog
Well, hating interest rates is obviously a pretty extreme concept. But what is almost as bizarre is the obsession with them shared by the media and certain analysts that is nearly on a Dr. Strangelove-like nuclear-war level. Every time members of the Fed meet, the...
