Market Update Blog

March 18, 2015

The financial world is overrun with industry wonks and prognosticators—each with a unique ability to predict the future. You’d be better off consulting the Magic Eight Ball than wasting your time with the typical rhetoric and opinion-based fodder. There is…

With so much buzz around San Francisco and Los Angeles it’s easy to overlook the Sacramento commercial real estate market, but there’s nothing small about the growth and development happening in the Sacramento commercial real estate landscape right now. Vacancies…

March 11, 2015

Articles highlighting strength in the U.S. economy have mushroomed in the past month, supporting a scenario of the first Federal Reserve rate hike in June, according to Société Générale. The investment bank has its own monthly newsflow indicators that count…

March 4, 2015

The Los Angeles commercial real estate market is as diverse as its population, with a multi-layered and complex landscape driven by myriad economic factors. Sure studies and forecasts abound, but nothing beats decades of first hand experience combined with relevant…

U.S. defeasance activity hit a post-crash high of $20.9 billion last year, driven largely by refinancings that allowed borrowers to pocket cash or improve their properties. The volume of defeased loans in 2014 was up by $7.7 billion, or 58%…

February 25, 2015

U.S. stocks were little changed Wednesday as traders watched the second day of testimony from Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen . “People are hanging onto every word Janet Yellen speaks,” said R.J. Grant, associate director of equity trading at KBW,…