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Fed Funds Unchanged
February 5, 2024
Economy

The central bank held its benchmark federal-funds rate steady last week in a range between 5.25% and 5.5%, the highest level in more than two decades.

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Bank Exposure
February 2, 2024
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In the first half of 2023, international banks represented 25% of loan originations to U.S. central business district offices, compared with 17% for regional and local banks. By contrast, regional and local banks did 54% of lending in that period for medical offices and 45% for suburban offices—versus 2% and 6% at international banks, respectively.

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Job Quitting
February 1, 2024
Economy

Americans quit 6.1 million fewer jobs last year than in 2022—a decline of 12%. In December alone, quits fell to the lowest monthly level in nearly three years.

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Hybrid Work
January 31, 2024
Economy

In the Fortune 500, 82% of employers offer at least some remote-work opportunities and Americans spent about 30% of their paid days working from home in January 2024, largely the same from a year earlier.

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Office Rents
January 30, 2024
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Asking rents for prime space in 16 U.S. markets declined in the third quarter after increasing on average from about $61 a square foot in mid-2021 to close to about $70 in the second quarter of last year. They were just under $69 in the fourth quarter.

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Retail Strength
January 29, 2024
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Vacancies at U.S. shopping centers fell to 5.3% in the fourth quarter, the lowest level since tracking the metric in 2007. Average asking rents rose to $23.70 a square foot and are now nearly 17% above 2019 levels.

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Fed Cuts
January 26, 2024
Economy

Fed officials expect to cut rates three times this year, according to projections from their last meeting in December, but they haven’t indicated when those cuts would begin.

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Economic Gain
January 25, 2024
Economy

The U.S. economy grew 3.1% over the last year, defying projections of a recession as a resilient labor market supported strong consumer spending. The 2023 figure stands in contrast to what economists expected a year ago, when they saw a recession as very likely and expected anemic 0.2% growth for the year. Last year’s gain was a sharp pickup from a comparable 0.7% advance in 2022.

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AZ Biltmore
January 24, 2024
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Blackstone agreed to sell the Arizona Biltmore luxury hotel to London-based private equity real estate manager Henderson Park for $705M. Almost six years ago, Blackstone acquired the property for roughly $400M from Singaporean sovereign wealth fund GIC and spent over $150M on property renovations.

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Home Investors
January 23, 2024
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Businesses large and small acquired some 570,000 homes in 2023, down from 802,000 in 2022. Fourth-quarter investor purchases of 123,000 represented the lowest quarterly total in the last eight quarters with 2023 on track for the largest annual drop in investor buying activity in at least 20 years.

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