(Bloomberg) — Mark Spitznagel is paid to be prepared for when the market’s weakest links are exposed in a big way. Right now, the Universa Investments founder, whose fund aims to protect clients during black swan events, says the financial system is most vulnerable to “the greatest credit bubble of human history.” “If this credit […]
Read MoreCarly Tripp is global chief investment officer and head of investments for Nuveen Real Estate. Axel Dupeux Carly Tripp grew up playing in corn fields in Olney, Md., about 30 miles outside of Washington, D.C. But by the time she graduated high school, five grocery stores had popped up within a one-mile radius, turning the […]
Read MoreUnlike the stock market where people understand and accept the risk that prices may fall from time to time—sometimes severely—many people who buy a house do not really think that the value of their home will ever decrease by all that much. Indeed, historically, the housing market has not been affected by price bubbles when […]
Read MoreA perfect storm. That’s the best way to describe the red-hot housing market we’ve seen from coast-to-coast during the pandemic. It was spurred by a combination of recession-induced low mortgage rates, remote work allowing buyers to sprawl further away from their workplace, and a demographic wave of first-time millennial homebuyers entering into the market. Of […]
Read MoreJones Lang LaSalle Incorporated, a professional services company, provides real estate and investment management services in America’s, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. The company offers a range of real estate services, including agency leasing and tenant representation services; and capital market services, such as debt placement, loan sales, equity placement, loan […]
Read MoreBack in February, Zillow’s stock was trading at an all-time high of $212. On Monday, it finished the day perilously close to its 52-week low, closing at $85.46. The fairly steady eight-month decline comes despite a red-hot U.S. housing market. And that’s making some investors nervous. Is Zillow a canary in the residential real estate […]
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