Posted: February 2nd, 2011 | Author: mfguide | Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
There’s really too much to explain in a short blog post, but here are two places to start: The FT has a nice summation of a Congressional Oversight Panel on the CRE lending crisis and why it will make life much worse for banks. A comment at the e...
Posted: October 8th, 2010 | Author: mfguide | Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
At a major event on innovation clusters last month, Dr. Lechleiter delivered a strong address explaining how his Fortune 500 firm benefits from actively supporting and engaging in the vibrant, 1,600-company strong and growing life sciences cluster in i...
Posted: October 7th, 2010 | Author: mfguide | Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
As an REO special servicer, clarity and consistency in the foreclosure standards would be welcome. It would bring a common workflow, broadly understood parameters, and a reasonably predictable timeline. The current mess, of course, suggests that (1) ei...
Posted: October 7th, 2010 | Author: mfguide | Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
Wages are low and housing is expensive, but some surprising locations are top of the list: If “affordable” means that every household has the opportunity to spend less than 30 percent of gross income on rent, not a single one of the 50 larg...
Posted: September 30th, 2010 | Author: mfguide | Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
Is SFH in recovery mode? Are MF starts going to pull the construction industry forward? It all depends on the numbers you use. As Tom Lawler shows, that’s more easily said than done. As many housing analysts have noted, how fast the current “ex...
Posted: September 28th, 2010 | Author: mfguide | Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
The USGBC encouraged architects to design small homes to LEED platinum standards. Here are the results from New Orleans.
Jetson Green
Posted: September 27th, 2010 | Author: mfguide | Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
If you still labor under the misapprehension that the GSEs ‘caused’ the bubble, please read. The wave of housing price increases was kicked off by changes in private label securitization. These changes left Fannie and Freddie with a smaller market ...
Posted: September 27th, 2010 | Author: mfguide | Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
All housing is local. Repeat until reflexive. Instead, the metro areas with the biggest housing bubbles were split between places where house prices remained too high (such as Los Angeles and Tampa), those where they were too low (such as Boise, Las Ve...
Posted: September 18th, 2010 | Author: mfguide | Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
Inspired by Walkscore, here’s another tool to help sell your location, or understand why the last rent increase didn’t go well. “Just type in an address and the home gets placed on a map showing average transportation costs for the surrounding ne...
Posted: September 15th, 2010 | Author: mfguide | Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
Will a lack of new household formation affect renting in the same way it affects homebuying? It takes jobs to create households, and usually housing is the key driver for employment growth in the early stages of a recovery. So this is a trap: the exces...
Posted: July 29th, 2010 | Author: mfguide | Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
My green-minded colleague Kim Madrigal has a post about her time at NAA and the soon to be less audacious idea of sustainability as a fiduciary duty.
Posted: July 27th, 2010 | Author: mfguide | Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
Greentechenterprise proposes 7 changes to PACE to ‘save the program’. I’ll have my own ideas shortly, but these are worth discussing: 1. Eliminate the Loading Order. The loading order requires that the owner show that energy efficienc...
Posted: July 27th, 2010 | Author: mfguide | Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
MFE interviews Jerry Davis, SVP of Property Operations at UDR, about their new electronic renewal initiative.
Via Multifamily Executive
Posted: July 26th, 2010 | Author: mfguide | Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
A good collection of lectures on real estate finance from Columbia University’s real estate program.
Via A Student of the Real Estate Game
Posted: July 13th, 2010 | Author: mfguide | Filed under: Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
It’s been a busy couple of Tweetdays as discussion about the problems and opportunities of PACE continue. It’s well known that PACE is having trouble as the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) announces its concerns about properly underw...
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