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With 30-year fixed mortgage rates topping 5% recently, home buyers appear to be reevaluating their budgets and pulling back on offers. The reservations come as home prices continue to climb... View Article

At an annualized rate of 8.5%—the highest rate in 40 years—the consumer price index, more colloquially known as inflation, hit peoples’ pockets hard in March. If only they knew how... View Article

By: James Schaff, President & Cliff Hockley, CPM, CCIM, Principal Broker, and Senior Advisor Bluestone and Hockley Real Estate Services SVN | Bluestone and Hockley Are cannabis grows, or cannabis... View Article

With both inflation and interest rates rising, following the first Federal Reserve rate hike in three years, many people have no living memory of what can happen—for example, the double-digit... View Article

Landlords of warehouse and distribution properties may look to shorter leases to capitalize on burgeoning e-commerce-driven demand, with the pace at which average lease terms are shortening picking up major... View Article

The Fed Raises Interest Rates For the first time since 2018, The Federal Reserve’s policy-setting committee raised interest rates as they pivot away from recovery-focused accommodations towards a more aggressive... View Article

By Cliff Hockley, CPM, CCIM, Principal Broker and Senior Advisor Bluestone and Hockley Real Estate Services SVN | Bluestone and Hockley Cost segregation studies are a very effective way to... View Article

Momentum is building for legislation that would increase private sector participation in the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher (HCV). On March 1, H.R. 6880, the “Choice in Affordable Housing Act” was... View Article

Two years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and after multiple setbacks for planned returns to the office, tech companies remain the single largest driver of office leasing nationally. Since... View Article

While the specifics may be different, the industrial sector is lighting up across the western region. In Seattle, Los Angeles, and Reno, a scarcity of industrial land availability is prompting... View Article

At this point in the building supply chain miseries, if it’s any month, this must be a time for rising prices. That’s what January brought, according to the National Association... View Article

How the Federal Reserve responds to inflation could create headwinds for the commercial real estate market, particularly as the Fed walks back earlier efforts to keep the pandemic-era economy in... View Article

Many real estate investors are transitioning from Multifamily investments to commercial and NNN investments. Why are they doing this? Because they are tired of dealing with the day-to-day challenges of... View Article

For the vast majority of market-rate renters, apartments remain affordable and these renters moving in are bringing big incomes, according to recent data from RealPage. Demand for market-rate apartments in... View Article

By Cliff Hockley, CPM, CCIM, Principal Broker and Senior Advisor Bluestone and Hockley Real Estate Services SVN | Bluestone and Hockley Most commercial or multifamily properties have parking lots, and... View Article