Conor Sen

Lots of new units hitting the market helped stabilize things this year, but there’s already reason to worry again.

Lending and bond-market activity are climbing as bankers and investors focus on the salubrious effects of rate cuts to come.

Commissions are in a state of flux, but one immediate outcome should be increased transactions that will get the property market moving again.

The high inflation and rock-bottom mortgage rates of just a few years ago created a different form of inequality, complicating the Fed’s job.

I’m now sorry that I described recent signs of recovery as akin to a “dead cat bounce” that would eventually be swamped by high interest rates.

The city is poised to lose residents to metros where construction boomed during the pandemic years and rents are now declining.

Businesses and consumers can withstand overly restrictive borrowing costs for only so long.

The sticker shock of the pandemic is in the rearview mirror and consumers are back to their buying ways again .

Falling mortgage rates will inject new life into homebuilding, but don’t expect the pandemic hot spots to be where all the action is.

Moderating inflation and still tepid demand are a difficult combination for corporate America.