Tag: real estate

China Loses Two Decades of Real Estate Gains

Richard C. Young - July 8, 2026

You may remember my warnings in 2012 against direct investment in China. I thought then that the country's numbers looked funny, and that it...

Controversial New Florida Law Allows Developers to Bypass Local Zoning

Richard C. Young - February 5, 2024

Patricia Mazzei of The New York Times reports that a controversial new Florida law allows developers to bypass local zoning rules if they promise...

An 80% Decline in Value in Just 4-Years

E.J. Smith - Your Survival Guy - April 28, 2023

You know why. The writing’s been on the wall for years. You and I think about this stuff all the time. The blue blob...

Millennials Moving to the Burbs

E.J. Smith - Your Survival Guy - March 10, 2016

The best investment I ever made in my early 20s was buying a multi-family in Marlborough, MA when I was working out there at...

Cyclical Economic Dysfunction a Brewing Storm?

E.J. Smith - Your Survival Guy - June 18, 2015

Two major cyclical indicators, construction (as pictured by housing starts and permits in the first chart below) and industrial production (chart 2 below) are...

Mosquito Apartments

E.J. Smith - Your Survival Guy - June 11, 2015

Anyone see a problem here? In Hong Kong apartments the size of a parking spot are selling for $516,000 reports the WSJ. The apartment, in...

$100 Million Room with a View, or Not

E.J. Smith - Your Survival Guy - May 14, 2015

You just gotta love the obnoxious real estate prices in Manhattan. Vornado Realty Trust’s 220 Central Park South has already secured $1.1 billion, or...

The Kings of Real Estate

E.J. Smith - Your Survival Guy - August 26, 2013

Ben Bernanke’s low interest rates haven’t made life any easier for first-time home buyers. It’s almost impossible for this group to get a mortgage,...