Regional Spotlight

Regional Spotlight: Denver, Colorado

Regional Spotlight: Denver, Colorado

A strong summer could balance the Mile High City’s soft spring. It surprised no one that Denver, Colorado’s, housing market took a hit in spring 2020. After all, no market has been unaffected by the economic downturn the coronavirus pandemic brought on. However, real-estate-related behavioral...

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Regional Spotlight: Charleston, South Carolina

Regional Spotlight: Charleston, South Carolina

The metro has a strong market structure likely to hold up under pressure. In March 2020, Charleston, South Carolina’s home sales posted a year-over-year growth of 6%, even with a coronavirus shutdown already looming on the horizon. Local businesses, including tech employers like Atlatl Software,...

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Regional Spotlight: Columbus, Ohio

Regional Spotlight: Columbus, Ohio

In Uncertain Times, the Columbus Market Holds Steady Just a few short months ago, at the end of 2019, real estate investors talking about Columbus, Ohio, would likely have mentioned the city’s Top 20 ranking as a business-friendly environment, its highly educated workforce, a local government...

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Regional Spotlight: Austin, Texas

Regional Spotlight: Austin, Texas

The Silicon Hills are on a takeoff trajectory. When you think of Texas, the capital city of Austin probably isn’t the first metro area that springs to mind. Although Austin’s housing market would certainly claim top honors in many other states, it is often overshadowed by headline boomers such as...

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Regional Spotlight: Baltimore, Maryland

Regional Spotlight: Baltimore, Maryland

A Closer Look at the Charm City’s Persistently Resurgent Real Estate Market Baltimore, Maryland, has long been a city of contradictions. Simultaneously holding positions on national “top 10” lists for “new tech hot spots” (Forbes), “top 10 U.S. foodie cities” (Yelp), “best places to live”...

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Steady (& Silver):  Tampa’s 2020 Growth Patterns

Steady (& Silver): Tampa’s 2020 Growth Patterns

The city is poised for a prolonged economic expansion. As 2019 ended, several Florida cities hit the headlines for incredibly low unemployment. Tampa, Florida, was near the top of the list. With a 2.2% increase in jobs and just 2.7% unemployment, the city sometimes called “The Big Guava” is poised...

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Chicago’s “Unbelievable” Industrial Real Estate Sector

Chicago’s “Unbelievable” Industrial Real Estate Sector

Sidebar to January 2020 Regional Spotlight: Why Chicago Works for Investors in 2020 Local brokers are finding it difficult to find enough positive adjectives to describe Chicago’s warehouse market. “The demand has been unbelievable,” said Fred Regnery, principal broker at the Colliers Rosemont...

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Know Your Chicago Neighborhoods

Know Your Chicago Neighborhoods

Sidebar to January 2020 Regional Spotlight: Why Chicago Works for Investors in 2020 One thing you will hear repeatedly from real estate investors with capital in Chicago is to “know your neighborhood.” For Scott Larson, vice president at Chicago-based bridge lender Pangea Mortgage Capital, that...

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Why Chicago Works for Investors in 2020

Why Chicago Works for Investors in 2020

The Windy City is weighted with opportunity if you know where to look. Chicago, Illinois, was dubbed “The City That Works” during the more than two decades that Richard J. Daley was mayor. Daley, whose son also served as Chicago mayor for a record-breaking 22 years before refusing to run for a...

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