All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Residential Market Trends

Senior Management is the key to successfully navigating through challenging market conditions. Many companies have become lazy in their staffing, with 3-4 people covering 2-3 jobs.  In challenging economic times, it is frequently necessary to re-tool the staffing of an orgnization to have 2-3 people...

1.  Article mislables areas of country as bulletproof when they are just slow. 2.  Mainstream media articles written to elicit response are often misleading. 3.  Real Estate is local, never national.

No one noticed the stimulus for hell and now we get a new one.

In light of 2007's and 1Q in 2008's dismal outlook in department stores, many stores including JC Penney's, Macy's, Kohl's and others need to rejuvenate, think out of the box, if it wants to capture the younger consumer who is more recession proof, than their parents.  Granted, the price of food,...

Home sales have continued to be sluggish this year, with existing home sales down nearly 24% in February compared with February 2007, according to the National Association of Realtors. New home sales fell to a 13-year low in February, according to the U.S. Commerce Department.  Federal legislation...

Several national housing market indicators have been deteriorating at historically high rates in the last several months.  The downward trend of these indicators points to a national recession.

The housing boom of the past few years and the sudden downturn in many markets across the country simply serves to emphasize the importance of adhering to the basics - the best practices that have been developed over the years to guide the development process and insure the success of...

There are a lot of popular press accounts explaining how this or that group is being impacted by housing. In order to fix any problem, we need to understand the causes and fundamental constraints that any solution must obey. Almost all industry insiders have an optimistic bias that should be checked...

Now is the time for creative innovation within the public and private sectors.  It behooves the related industries of home construction,mortgage,and banking to uncover strategies that put in play will allow distressed homeowners to cut their payments and,at the same time, cut lender losses that...

Unsold inventory is at an extremely high level, which will be increased significantly as mortgage foreclosures continue to ramp up through 2008.  The median home price has dropped only 4.6% year over year.  Even with historically low interest rates, the credit crunch will continue to suppress...