At the end of 2023, Chicago-based Article Student Living was acquired by a global real estate investment company, which allowed the business to expand, and enabled it to make key investments in the high-demand student housing market. But because Article was growing so quickly, managing one of the largest student housing portfolios in the US, … Read more
As a stock market investor, I’m disappointed in the new tariffs President Trump has imposed—10% on imports from China and 25% on imports from Mexico and Canada, including a 10% duty on Canadian energy imports (oil, natural gas, electricity). If these tariffs persist all year without resolution, corporate earnings could take a 2%-3% hit, which means a similar drop in … Read more
Now that I’ve shared the 2025 S&P 500 target price forecast, let’s dive into housing price forecasts for 2025. The outlook from housing analysts is positive, with expected gains ranging from -0.4% to 10.8%, and an average of about 3%. The only negative housing price forecast comes from Moody’s, which predicts a slight decline of -0.4% largely … Read more
A reader asks: My wife and I plan on selling our house once my youngest graduates high school in 2.5 years. My wife is pushing for us to sell it this Spring of 2025 instead of waiting until Spring of 2027 because she believes home prices will be down considerably in 2027 due to Trump’s … Read more
Kyle Mouery, MD, a family medicine physician at Kaiser Permanente on Maui, moved 5 times since the Maui wildfires claimed his home in 2023. The lack of long-term housing options was making it hard to find a place for him and his family of 6. Dr. Mouery wasn’t alone. After wildfires destroyed hundreds of Maui … Read more
