americas | The Property Chronicle

Single-family housing permits extend five-month surge

by Robert Hughes | Oct 28, 2020 | The Analyst, zLead Article, zOurWriters1

Housing activity – starts and permits – posted strong results in September as the single-family segment made gains across most of the country while multifamily housing appears to be trending flat. Total housing starts rose to a 1.415 million annual rate from a 1.388...

Chart of the month: US crude oil

by Alfred Sadek | Oct 20, 2020 | The Analyst, zLead Article, zNewsletter

Since the industrial revolution, energy consumption and production has played a central role in economic development as it has set a path for many countries to move from a predominantly agrarian economy into a modern developed country. Petroleum has been a fundamental...

Production space – the emergence of a new asset class

by Eric Willett | Oct 19, 2020 | Audio, The Analyst, zListenToOrRead

Globally, we watch millions of hours of content daily. Much of that content emanates from North America’s media industry, taking shape on sound stages across the United States and Canada. Sound stages have often been overlooked in commercial real estate due to their...

Trump mania: why do we care so much about politics?

by Joakim Book | Oct 19, 2020 | The Professor, zEditor's pick, zLead Article

The morning after Trump was elected, people in my university class were crying. Fair enough, you think: you’ve heard about the emotional fragility of today’s youth, and perhaps you’ve read Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt’s great book The Coddling of the...

America heads for home

by Pamela Boneham | Oct 19, 2020 | Head Of Research, zOurWriters1

US home sales are soaring, and even renters now favour suburban units with ample space for home-working. Should urban landlords be worried? A growing trend in the US housing market is the search for more space, light and air. It is evidenced by increased US...