Philippa Maister

2 days ago | globest.com | Philippa Maister

LightBox has released its Monthly CRE Activity Index for April, offering what it called “the first market-wide signal of transaction activity in the weeks following the sweeping Trump tariff announcements that shook financial markets and raised fears of a slowdown.” It showed that CRE activity rose slightly in April, but at a slower pace than in prior months, reflecting continuing deal flow but growing caution among investors and lenders, the report said.

6 days ago | globest.com | Philippa Maister

U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff of Georgia has announced an investigation into the corporate ownership of single-family homes in Georgia – a practice he claimed raises prices for families and reduces the supply of homes available for purchase by individual families. The investigation will examine the practices of four major companies that collectively own 29,406 private homes in metro Atlanta.

6 days ago | globest.com | Philippa Maister

Is small beautiful in expensive, crowded cities? A growing number of renters seem to think so. Many of them are turning to micro housing in cities where they find themselves squeezed out of the conventional rental market, both physically and financially. And micro means what it says. In the nation’s top 10 cities for this type of housing, the maximum size of a unit ranges from 348 square feet in Honolulu to 446 square feet in Reno.

1 week ago | globest.com | Philippa Maister

A new report from CBRE points to signs of a rebalancing of supply and demand in the multifamily sector, leading to improved net absorption, lower vacancy, and rising rents in the first quarter of 2025. Investors took notice, pushing up the volume of multifamily investment by 33% year over year to $28.8 billion, the highest 1Q total since 2022. Indeed, the sector accounted for the largest share of total CRE investment volume in the quarter, rising 33% year over year.

1 week ago | globest.com | Philippa Maister

The number of permit applications to build multifamily housing has slumped in two-thirds of U.S. cities, in some cases to levels not seen since the pandemic began, according to a new report from Redfin. “Developers obtained permits to build 12.4 multifamily housing units for every 10,000 people in the U.S. over the past year.