All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Real Estate Investment

Analysis about vacancies is accurate but doesn't account for regional differences, yet all markets are impacted suggesting that something else is at work.  That something is buyer psyche.

1) All real estate is local -- National stats are a photo, not an x-ray.  2) Jobs are a better indicator of real estate trends.  When people work, they want to find a way to afford a home.  3) Homeowners removed $620B from their home equity in 2006 -- that ATM is out of...

Increasing single family homes vacancies should reduce prices with more inventory. Increasing single family homes vacancies should provide home rentals that compete with apartments. This trend could reduce or stablize rents in these markets. This home vacancy trend is market specific. Some markets...

It’s hard to believe that the formerly largest industrial city in the nation has fallen on hard times for jobs.  But apparently so be it as the last remaining king, the Garment industry, is about to topple.  Just yesterday the entertainment industry was king here too, but we know its influence...

Staggering numbers are presented here.  Seniors increasing from almost 5 million to 11 million in 30 years, critical shortages of skilled/professional labor with 1/3 of California’s high school students not graduating, and unparalleled diversity in a huge population. 

In India opportunities abound; yet there is a shortfall of management skills. This article examines the macroeconomic environment both long and medium term and highlights energy, agriculture and healthcare as key beneficiaries of the times we live and will live in.  It then looks at the healthcare...

The points of this article that I find important are the comments regarding property owners running out of money/cash in the commercial property sectors as they have in the homebuilding arena, and the comments regarding the overall strength and performance of   the companies that form the...

It appears that we have been doing nothing economically during the current administration except gorging in a huge consumption and speculative binge and conducting war in the Middle East.  The subject article proposes that we will pay for this during the next administration and beyond as we rebuild...

The Dutch learn their history well and use it to their advantage.  In the late '70's and early 80's, I represented several Dutch institutional investment groups who entered the US real estatemarket.  One of the groups only bought shopping centers throughout the US.  At the time,...

Vacant properties invite a host of ills including vandalism,neglect,arson,and even destruction by former owners.  REO managers must have a set of preemptive security tools at hand to protect against deliberate damage and,as much as possible, the unpredictable forces of nature. ...