As a result, total household equity as a
share of real estate value has increased to 45 % after hovering near 40 % for several quarters.
The firm has an intimate
knowledge of real estate values and trends that allow it to identify off - market opportunities and maintain a rigorous focus on value - creation.
But macroeconomists lacked the statistics needed to follow how land prices — that is, the «non-building»
aspect of real estate value — were affected by the business cycle.
These risks include: the cyclical
nature of real estate values, risks related to general and local economic conditions, changes in regulation and tax systems, and other real estate capital market influences
This cardinal
principle of real estate value is an easy enough formula for a house overlooking an ocean, but what happens when your waterfront property is in a gritty, post-industrial locale, and your water is Lake Erie?
In a 1994 study, a research paper indicated that Canadian baby boomers were going to inherit more than one trillion dollars, but given the
heights of real estate values and the stock market, in 2002 terms, the current total may be around three trillion dollars.
«But if you have an assembly plant or something like that in the middle of nowhere and your business goes bust, you've got (next to nothing) in
terms of real estate value for that asset.
But macro economists lacked the statistics needed to follow how land prices — that is, the «non-building»
aspect of real estate value — were affected by the business cycle.
Instead of incurring the cost of buying and selling physical property, the investor or fund manager may simply purchase a customised product with returns based on an underlying
index of real estate values.
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All of the Real Estate values, taxes, utility and maintenance costs, municipal services, and facilities for your area of interest.
Prognostications like that are a problem because financial journalists such as Michael Grynbaum of The New York Times, Les Christie of CNN, and Rex Nutting of CBS MarketWatch, as well as securities investors and analysts, call his index «the best gauge»
of real estate values.
«That exposed me to
some of the real estate values that you can potentially buy in a down market, and how that market improves and value improves over time,» Schwartz says.
Since inception in 2015, in conjunction with its partners, Alden Street has acquired 11 student housing assets amounting to more than $ 225 million
of real estate value and 4,000 beds.