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Why It’s Not All Doom And Gloom For Commercial Real Estate - MikeLembeck.com, Orange County Multifamily Broker, Apartments, 1031 Exchanges

Why It’s Not All Doom And Gloom For Commercial Real Estate

After decades of growth bolstered by low interest rates and easy credit, commercial real estate has hit a wall. Office and retail property valuations have been falling since the pandemic changed wher...

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Fed Admits It Was Wrong – Kind Of - MikeLembeck.com, Orange County Multifamily Broker, Apartments, 1031 Exchanges

Fed Admits It Was Wrong – Kind Of

 During the pandemic recovery, inflation reached the highest rates in 40 years, largely driven by the Federal Reserve’s excessive monetary policy. The Fed got “behind the curve”...

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Freddie Mac Sees Jump in Serious Multifamily Delinquencies - MikeLembeck.com, Orange County Multifamily Broker, Apartments, 1031 Exchanges

Freddie Mac Sees Jump in Serious Multifamily Delinquencies

The rate went from 0.28% in December 2023 to 0.44% in January 2024. There’s more news that increases the food for thought about multifamily stability. Bill McBride’s CalculatedRisk N...

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Multifamily Weakness Continues to Grab Attention - MikeLembeck.com, Orange County Multifamily Broker, Apartments, 1031 Exchanges

Multifamily Weakness Continues to Grab Attention

Delinquency rate fluctuations in the property type are growing After a long stretch in which one of the two main commercial real estate darlings was multifamily, the minutes of the Federal Reser...

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Rethinking the Latest Inflation Data - MikeLembeck.com, Orange County Multifamily Broker, Apartments, 1031 Exchanges

Rethinking the Latest Inflation Data

CRE investors should look to add value, think long term. When the headline CPI number on a year-over-year basis fell 30 basis points to 3.1% last week, it delivered a mixed message, according ...

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Investors Fret About a Possible Rate Hike - MikeLembeck.com, Orange County Multifamily Broker, Apartments, 1031 Exchanges

Investors Fret About a Possible Rate Hike

But they are likely jumping to conclusions too early and looking too much at information that may already be out of date. The Federal Reserve released the January Federal Open Markets Committee meeti...

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Economists: Recession on Horizon - MikeLembeck.com, Orange County Multifamily Broker, Apartments, 1031 Exchanges

Economists: Recession on Horizon

Americans should brace for and expect a recession this year, economists are warning, arguing the details of the latest jobs report are not a good indicator. Even though the Federa...

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High Interest Rates 'Killing' Companies As Layoffs Continue - MikeLembeck.com, Orange County Multifamily Broker, Apartments, 1031 Exchanges

High Interest Rates 'Killing' Companies As Layoffs Continue

President Joe Biden is blaming corporations for high prices and "shrinkflation." Business executives and many economists disagree, arguing the real problem is inflation created by federal deficit spen...

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These New Regulations Will Bite CRE - MikeLembeck.com, Orange County Multifamily Broker, Apartments, 1031 Exchanges

These New Regulations Will Bite CRE

Figures in the CRE lending world are pointing to an emergency. If you haven’t heard of Basel III, you’ve got company. International banking regulations aren’t typical beach reading....

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What the Decline in January Retail Sales Actually Means - MikeLembeck.com, Orange County Multifamily Broker, Apartments, 1031 Exchanges

What the Decline in January Retail Sales Actually Means

Consumers may finally be shifting their behaviors. Then again, the numbers could be off. Retail sales numbers are always important to commercial real estate. Somebody has to enter the stores and spen...

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