GLG News by Land Acquisition Experts (US)

The pressure is intense for home owners, lenders, home builders and other investors to maintain housing values. Companies who provide financial and other services such as real estate brokers, appraisers and the like are dependent for their income on a steady to rising market. The home buyer on the other...

We see from the article that over 40 % of the nation’s imports by cargo ship flow through the adjacent Long Beach and Los Angeles ports which lie smack in the middle of the Los Angeles Metroplex. Moreover, the traffic at the ports will double in the next dozen or so years. The container port proposed...

Affordability ratios are too high, sales are weak, a reduced number of new jobs don't help and wages at the middle and upper levels are not increasing. 

The greater fool enters a market when investment interest rates elevate and negative leverage occurs. Or when income streams are interrupted by an inventory of new construction.

There is widespread interest in the housing industry, housing stocks and bonds, etc.  This impacts many industries and companies.  The article offers my point of view about the current state of the homebuilding industry and suggests when and why things will turn around. 

We’ve arrived at a crucial time in this cycle where foreclosures and defaults both existing and imminent throughout the country threaten to tip prices over to substantial market price reductions.

Lennar is taking a "build through it" approach in the Phoenix metro area.  Depending on your angle, you may or may not think the approach is a good one.

When the housing market moves up, it moves up at a rapid clip or so it seems. We spend so much time enjoying the new wealth if we are home owners or involved in the housing industry that time seems to fly. When the market slows or dips, the process seems to take forever. And, in truth, it does take...

In the “Purchase” of or “Re-cycling” Existing Shopping Malls, the REAL Question is: “NOT What It Can Do For You but What You Can Do For It”. It is NOT The GRM, The Value of the DCF, DSC, CA or What is in-place Today or some other multiple .... But Rather: ..... “What Can be Done to effectively justify...

The factors outlined show that the growth in family income is being outpaced by the growth in family expenses. Something’s got to give and it will be the cost of housing that leads the giving. There aren’t many ways to get the family income up anymore now that the college degree is a standard and...