All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Residential Market Trends

A Community Development District (CDD) is a local, special purpose government is an alternative method for managing and financing infrastructure required to support community development. CDD's possess several powers as a legal entity, such as the right to enter into contracts; the right to own...

Employment, income and mortgage availability and cost drive the demand side of the housing market. For the most part you can't photograph any of those. They are only newsworthy if they are exceptional.

This article is just another example of somewhat reckless reporting by the “drive-by” media. Yes, there was excessive overbuilding of housing during the three years prior to 2006.  Yes, there is a huge number of empty or unsold housing that must be sold over the next few years.  This message...

Values for ad valorem tax purposes tell a different story. Ad valorem assessments for 2008 and forecasted for 2009 suggest sales are lower than during the bubble, but so far the sky has not fallen.

The article - while correct  - is too focussed on residential and East German real estate. The real opportunity for profitable German property investment is in the major West German cities for appartments and homes and for commerial real estate, mostly in West German medium-sized cities.

Las Vegas is in the midst of an explosion of Mega projects. The city is looking for 40,000+ new employess to fill jobs at these resorts. Where will these people live given the new mortgage parameters? Although apartment starts are somewhat down, the large number of condo buildings will provide...

We need to stop looking at the "multifamily market" as a single market. Clearly, given the current condominium market (or lack thereof), we need to talking in terms of rental apartments and for-sale condominium product, regardless of whether some of that condo product may temporarily be placed into...

Increasing leverage got us into the credit crisis. With an upturn in housing prices perhaps 10 years away, how can this simple solution serve the new housing buyers or the broader economy?. We are basically transferring risk from banks and new housing buyers to the federal government. Sounds like...

Cyril Moulle-Berteaux relates interesting facts that corroborate the return to a normal housing economy in the future.  Yet, others do not understand Moulle-Berteaux’s historical analysis.  

Buyers and Investors Beware:  In addition to determining values (prices), careful analysis of the financial conditions of Condominium Associations (CA's) must be prudently examined before purchasing.