October 16, 2021    By: Tim Vi Tran,
October 16, 2021    By: Tim Vi Tran,
By Ashley Fahey – Real Estate Editor, The Business Journals, It’s tough to be a homebuyer in today’s housing market but it’s not easy being a renter, either. An analysis of RealPage Inc. data by The Business Journals found, among 50 of the largest metropolitan statistical areas in the United States, rents grew more than 10% between the first quarter […]
October 12, 2021    By: Tim Vi Tran,
By Ashley Fahey – Real Estate Editor, The Business Journals The Covid-19 pandemic didn’t invent the real estate conversion model. Buildings have been retrofitted into new uses for generations. But it did, apparently, accelerate the popularity of the model, especially conversions into apartments. A recent report by RentCafe and commercial real estate data company Yardi Matrix found more […]
October 11, 2021    By: Tim Vi Tran,
By Sara Bloomberg – Staff Reporter October 08, 2021, 03:01pm PDT Updated 10/08/2021 6:14 pm First off, the news: Tesla has officially announced it is moving its headquarters from Palo Alto to Austin, Texas. The decision has led to a lot of hand wringing among economic development types about familiar narratives about the exodus of companies leaving the Bay […]
October 2, 2021    By: Tim Vi Tran,
By Ashley Fahey – Real Estate Editor, The Business Journals Home values are surging seemingly everywhere — but, more than a year after the Covid-19 pandemic hit home, what are the most expensive ZIP codes in America? The Business Journals analyzed more than 30,000 ZIP codes, using Zillow Group Inc. data, to find the 25 most-expensive ZIP codes […]
September 29, 2021    By: Tim Vi Tran,
By Ty West – Editor-in-Chief, The Playbook, Sep 28, 2021 California is still king when it comes to expensive metro areas. That’s according to a new analysis by The Business Journals that looked at the latest regional price parity data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis to identify the 30 least affordable metro areas in the nation. The latest […]
August 12, 2021    By: Tim Vi Tran,
Office vacancy expected to rise in coming months as more than 100M square feet remains under construction https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2021/08/09/office-vacancy-peak-new-construction.html?ana=e_sjo_bn_editorschoice_editorschoice via @svbizjournal
August 5, 2021    By: Tim Vi Tran,
As a region, Silicon Valley has 10 total companies on Fortune’s latest Global 500 list. Full local rankings: No. 6 Apple Inc. $274.5 billion No. 21 Alphabet Inc. $182.5 billion No. 86 Facebook Inc. $85.9 billion No. 108 Intel Corp. $77.9 billion No. 182 HP Inc. $56.6 billion No. 221 Cisco Systems Inc. $49.3 billion […]
July 15, 2021    By: Tim Vi Tran,
Dimitris Vlachopoulos • 06/30/2021 Understanding the most recent trends in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) can help to identify which locations are attractive for corporates’ operations by sector. Our latest findings confirmed that for companies in the logistics sector, European cities with large ports, such as Antwerp, Hamburg, and London have been the most attractive foreign […]
July 3, 2021    By: Tim Vi Tran,
Just like little sisters steal their big sister’s clothes, sister cities across the country are stealing home buyers from their larger and nearby major metros. Many buyers and renters who will no longer be required to come to the office every day are flocking to these smaller metros for their affordability, desirability, and proximity to […]