While increased tariffs on Chinese imports may increase cost to consumers, the current strengthening of the dollar will make imports cheaper. This may make imports cheaper even with the tariff. The attached article explains dollar valuation.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury has unveiled a plan for overhauling Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the main thrust of which is to return the government sponsored entities to private control after more than a decade under federal government conservatorship.

The Market Forecast article “Slowing Ahead” in the March/April 2019 Commercial Investment Real Estate magazine of the CCIM Institute outlines expected national trends

On Wednesday the yield curve inverted—that is, yields on two-year Treasury bonds were higher than those on the ten-year bonds—for a short period of time before the markets opened.

“For money you wouldn’t need for more than 10 years, which ONE of the following do you think would be the best way to invest it—stocks, bonds, real estate, cash, gold/metals, or bitcoin/cryptocurrency?”

The biggest mall owner in the U.S., Simon Property Group, on Wednesday said it’s considering more opportunities where it would invest in a retailer to help keep it afloat.

Mixed-use developments, by definition, include competing and often mutually exclusive interests.

Decades ago, as the nation’s longest desegregation case dragged on in East Baton Rouge Parish schools, families began flocking to the lower housing cost exurbs of Ascension and Livingston parishes seeking better—and more gentrified—public schools and an escape from the escalating crime in Baton Rouge.

Manufacturers and other producers are beginning 2015 with a positive outlook. As a result, they could look to expand their number of properties and space for facilities to prepare for a great performing year.