Sentences with phrase «before recession»

An extremely strong spring selling market has pushed Dallas - area home prices ahead of where they were before the recession.

«Even before the recession, it had some decent restaurants and some condos, but not the multifamily boom and not the restaurants and industry and technology coming in droves.»

In the past few years, even before the recession began, the Gap, one of the staple tenants at U.S. regional malls, has been experiencing waning popularity.

The chain had been struggling even before the recession hit, and many industry experts thought it was a goner back in 2008.

According to fourth quarter data from NIC, construction starts for seniors housing is at about 1.4 percent of inventory, which is about one - third of the level the industry saw right before the recession.

The wealth gap is about twice the shortfall that existed before the recession and the biggest disparity since 1984, when the Census Bureau began publishing wealth estimates by race and ethnicity.

Since the metro was a bubble market before the recession, the higher household growth appears to suggest that it is burning off the excess housing supply from the last cycle.

Homeowners who may have refinanced on their homes before the recession hit found themselves in a particularly bad position.»

Even before the recession hit in late 2008, Americans have not been so quick to jump into their cars.

Even before recession — most buyers ask for discount off of listing price.

«As a percentage of household real estate, homeowners» equity in real estate has rebounded to 54.5 percent from a low of 36.9 percent in 2009, although it has not fully made up the ground to levels seen before the recession,» said Jennifer Lee, Senior Economist, BMO Capital Markets.

«Before the recession, a lot of islands were priced by owners who had what we call Coke - bottle glasses,» Krolow said.

While the average occupancy rate among self - storage properties reached 82 % in the first quarter of 2011, that's well below the 92 % occupancy rate attained in the first quarter of 2007 before the recession hit, according to Los Angeles - based Self Storage Data Services Inc..

The Truth In Lending Act was originally passed in 1968, but the crazy mortgages that surfaced before the recession somewhat demanded an update.

Most American homes are worth less now than they were before the recession, according to a report out Wednesday.

Interest rate hikes are associated with a strong economy, and recent data shows that the U.S. economy is stronger than it has been since before the Recession.

However, it remains to be seen if CMBS issuance will soon hit the numbers it reached before the recession.

Before the recession, the homeownership rate was 69 percent and today it's 63 percent, per the Federal Reserve.

A few things drove the sector's dominance before the recession.

Markets with the highest share of homes that have fully recovered in value include Denver, Dallas and Nashville, where values for almost all homes built before the recession have reached or surpassed their pre-recession peaks: 99.6 percent, 97.5 percent and 97.3 percent, respectively.

Yet, he said, «people are a lot more hesitant to spend than they were before the recession.

As an example, in December 2005, when home prices rose by 13.5 % and disposable personal income decreased by 0.6 %, the gap became the largest one before the recession.

Still, fully 82 % of homeowners who say their home is worth less now than before the recession began either strongly (37 %) or somewhat (45 %) agree that homeownership is the best long - term investment a person can make.

Last year, apartment rents alone increased at their fastest pace since before the recession, up 4.6 percent in 2015, according to a report by real - estate research company Reis Inc..

Before the recession, home owners aged 65 or older could have used their home's equity to increase their retirement income by over 50 percent — up to $ 60,000 — either by borrowing a home equity line of credit, selling their home at a profit, or taking a cash - out refinance or second mortgage.

Although probably an early conversation for independent living, there is evidence that assisted living occupancy is back to its peak levels before the recession.

For example, in the suburbs of Chicago, where Michael LaFido of Marketing Luxury Group does business, building a house similar in size to an existing structure costs 20 percent less today than before the recession.

High - profile downtown tenants liked the taste of one - upmanship of getting into the special new building before the recession, and today there's still a waiting list of major tenants wanting to jump into top - line office space.

Approximately 34 percent of homes have values that exceed their peaks from before the recession, the report shows, despite many indicators, such as the S&P CoreLogic Case - Shiller Index, surpassing their own.

Fewer people are getting financing for home - buying than they did before the recession, but good financing is luckily still available to many qualified buyers.

Ninety percent of U.S. adults agree that some people purchased more expensive homes than they should have before the recession.

«Before the recession, there was certain amount of bankruptcies that occurred on a regular basis, and no one really worried about it much because it's the nature of the business,» he says.

«Some of these firms haven't even looked at their 10 - to 15 - year leases since before the recession, and they're trying to figure out what to do,» Cooper says.

That may sound like a shocking increase, but remember that before this recession, 4 percent to 5 percent interest rates were the norm.

The current level of tenant issues, specifically bankruptcies, is still not as high as it was before the recession.

The national office vacancy as of the third quarter is at its lowest point since before the recession, at about 13.4 percent, with some markets seeing historic increases in tenant demand and subsequent construction starts...

This data is not too surprising, as tech firms have dominated leasing since even before the recession, mostly in primary markets, including San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Seattle, Boston and New York City.

«The Southeast had been depressed for some time, even before recession.

Given the luck that you happen to sell your portfolio for top dollar right before the recession in 2008, then bought back again, be it perhaps not exact same but similar like kind properties, then wouldn't you have made more money?

I just wish he was the national president before the recession, because change was needed before the market collapsed.

During the run - up before the recession, there was a frothy investment market with too much capital chasing too few deals.

(TNS)-- Breaking into the home equity nest egg is becoming a very real possibility for more Americans as home prices rise — but raiding the house bank is not as easy as it was before the recession, and not everyone meets the requirements to borrow from home equity.

As a result of economic stress, Bishop said, older boomers are staying in place a few years longer than people who retired before the recession scrambled retirement nest eggs.

The good news is, marriage counseling doesn't have to cost as much as it did before the recession.

Most have not been in the job market since before the recession and others have never needed to job hunt — until now.

Most have not been in the job market since before the recession and...

There's no denying that the economy, though improving, is not like it was before the recession.

Companies have quickly increased their workforces, brought back perks like unlimited vacation, excellent training and some benefits that were unheard of even before the recession hit.

At present, the data suggests we may get back to where we were before the recession (at least for university graduates — I'm really not so confident for young people with lower qualifications, but that's not my field), but almost certainly not for at least 12 months, probably a little longer.

Before the recession, the general rule of thumb was that for every $ 10,000 in salary desired, a person could expect their job search to last a month.