Commercial Real Estate Collapse

REAL ESTATE NEWS (Los Angeles, CA) — Offices and businesses have been collapsing since March 2020, when the virus hysteria and government-forced lockdown began to close down a large percentage of business in California and some other states.

A lot of different markets at this point are giving us a good sense as to what’s going on, according to CNBC. Let’s start with rents, which seem to keep going up despite what we’re hearing about housing rates moving up and making it more or less affordable for buyers. The media is talking about rents being a component of inflation and how there’s nothing abating that upward tick in rents. It’s really a supply and demand issue. Apartment buildings across the country are full, thus able to push rents right now. Until we start to see more supply come online, it will continue.

Some believe that rents will maintain or continue to move higher. They’ll continue to go up. Many business people are calculations a north of 5% increase over the next year. We are told that, until we see that come down to the historic average of 2% to 3%, we’re not going to see that number abate. From an investor perspective and/or those lending, multifamily is the place to be right now. Apartments is a great place to be invested. One of the big reasons for that is Fannie and Freddie, which provide liquidity in that market. There isn’t such liquidity in other commercial real estate classes.

Fore more on the collapse of commercial real estate, take a look at this video from Wall Street Journal about Chinese companies getting the heck out of American commercial real estate.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-firms-flee-u-s-commercial-real-estate-market-after-big-property-bets-sour-11663622573

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Home Ownership 2022 / 2023: Why Home Owners are Sitting Pretty

REAL ESTATE NEWS (Los Angeles, CA) — As the Federal Reserve hikes interest rates to a more historically normal level, we’re hearing and seeing fewer prospective home buyers in the Greater Los Angeles Area. Residential real estate prices today are near all time highs. Rents are also around all time highs. What many are not aware of is that home equity is also near all time highs, according to Money.com. This, along with relatively full employment and fairly normal financial condition of households (except for inflation), means that most home owners have no pressing reason to sell. Because home ownership and home values grow from inflation, today’s home owners are in an advantageous position.

While today’s lower number of transactions is sad for many real estate agents who were making a killing last year, the current situation is good news, favorable for the average home owner. Some home prices have dropped, but these are just the few who must sell quickly for personal reasons or out of their own decision to panic during a crashy stock market season. Even if inflation were to be quickly eradicated, which is not happening, most home owners would prefer to watch and see rather than engage in panic selling. As the Loft Blog projected, home prices are not massively plummeting any time soon, so long as inflation continues to apply upward pressure on most prices. Landlords and investors are doing well, as are most other residential property owners.

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