The past 30 days or so marked the beginning of a market shift. Every investor is trying to understand how the Fed’s aggressive stance...

Fed continues along established stratagem to combat inflation. On May 4 the Federal Reserve raised the Federal Funds rate by 50 basis...

Pending home sales reveal impact of mortgage rate surge. Upward pressure on mortgage rates from lofty inflation and the Fed’s plan to...

First quarter GDP contraction not a concern. Gross domestic product fell by an annualized rate of 1.4 percent in the opening quarter of...

Inflation pressures persist. The Consumer Price Index increased by another multidecade high margin in March as multiple factors drive...

Leasing volumes robust. After encountering a disproportionate number of hurdles in 2020 and early 2021, apartment demand has soared in...

Vacancy historically low in downtown and Silicon Beach. Apartment demand in two of Los Angeles County’s largest employment hubs is...

Unemployment rate nears parity with pre-pandemic. Staff counts expanded by 431,000 in March, helping lower the unemployment rate to 3.6...

Home prices climbing, despite a slowdown in buying. For the first time since 2019, the average rate for a 30-year mortgage breached 4...

The humanitarian, social and political crisis unfolding in Ukraine has begun to deliver some economic fallout in both global and United...

Owners display a preference to stay put. The number of existing homes for sale continued to abate in January, reaching just 850,000...

What's in Store for Los Angeles Multifamily in 2022? 2021 ended up an extremely active year in every sector of commercial real estate,...

Economy exceeds expectations in fourth quarter. Annualized gross domestic product jumped 6.9 percent in the final period of last year,...

Mortgage rates surge to a pandemic-era high. Following a steady but mild ascent at the end of last year, the growth trajectory of the...

In rare feat, unemployment drops below 4 percent. Employers added 199,000 personnel to payrolls in December, below the 2021 monthly...

Swell in homebuying inflames shortfall. In late 2021, the single-family housing landscape mirrored the conditions witnessed earlier in...

Lackluster employment growth a sign of tight labor market. Employers added 210,000 personnel in November, below this year’s monthly...

New home listings elevate, but dynamics tell a different story. In the month of October, the number of new homes available for purchase...

For the majority of LA apartment brokers, the past 2 quarters have been extremely active. Investors are still finding good reasons to...

Job creation picks back up. After a slowdown in August and September, hiring improved in October as 531,000 personnel were added to...