If there’s one thing that Morgan Stanley would like to advise to you, it’s to take a look at single-family homes and consider it as part of your real estate investing strategy. That’s right, these properties have become hot among real estate investors recently considering the shift in the US property market from home...
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If there’s one thing that Morgan Stanley would like to advise to you, it’s to take a look at single-family homes and consider it as part of your real estate investing strategy. That’s right, these properties have become hot among real estate investors recently considering the shift in the US property market from home...
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Morgan Stanley Research released its latest real estate report, Housing 2.0: The New Rental Paradigm to provide market insights to investors. It’s interesting to know that the research team observes how more Americans have become renters instead of homeowners, attributing to different factors in the economy. The report states: Across the country, more Americans...
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Although the overall health of the economy is of interest to everyone, if you’re a banker you particularly want to know when people will start borrowing money again. Very roughly speaking, banks typically hold equal amounts of commercial loans, commercial real estate loans, home mortgages, consumer loans, government securities, and cash. With commercial, mortgage,...
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Although the overall health of the economy is of interest to everyone, if you’re a banker you particularly want to know when people will start borrowing money again. Very roughly speaking, banks typically hold equal amounts of commercial loans, commercial real estate loans, home mortgages, consumer loans, government securities, and cash. With commercial, mortgage,...
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Read the newspapers and we’re at the brink: Global Gloom, Deepening Pessimism, Markets Drop Sharply. Is another Great Depression just around the corner? Is the US slumping to a decade of stagnation a la Japan? Is China now eating the lunch we thought we had bought cheap? Is our financial system just a Vegas vacation,...
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Categories are graded from A thru F: Economic Growth: C- (June 2011: D+) The U.S. economic recovery remains sluggish. Real GDP grew at a 1.3% pace in 2Q11, following downwardly revised growth of 0.4% in 1Q11; far below the 1.9% rate of expansion previously estimated for last quarter. We now have positive Y/Y employment...
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Jobs, jobs, jobs! That’s what we’ll hear from now on through the 2012 election, and rightly so. Although they claim otherwise, Wall Street and the Big Banks are not the essential, indispensable, must-be-bailed-out part of the national economy: it’s people with jobs. Those people account for 70 percent of the economy (the government is...
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This is an investing concept that’s not often thought about within the context of real estate, but it’s vital for you to understand the differences between these two types of debt. Bad debt is typically referred to as consumer debt. What makes bad debt “bad” is the fact that it’s not being used on...
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Categories are graded from A thru F: Economic Growth: D+ Trends were mixed this month, as a few metrics ticked up while the majority ticked down, resulting in a drop from C- last month to D+ this month for overall economic growth. The employment market improved once again this month, (albeit at a less...
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