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What do I do with my retirement money, one investor’s answer (with charts)....
Good charts on long term returns in this piece from Glenn R Mueller, PhD.: I recently met with my financial advisor to “rebalance” my … retirement portfolio. Based on my “age and stage of life” his...
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Analysis on Tapering QE3 by Bill McBride- Not until December but #Multifamily...
Bill McBride over at Calculated Risk stares at this stuff all day and has a pretty good track record reading the Fed’s tea leaves. He believes that actual ‘tapering’ of QE3 purchases most likely won’t...
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Update on the 10yr Treasury rate which drives Multifamily, Commercial Real...
In the Analysis on Tapering QE3 post Tuesday I included a chart of the US 10 year Treasury rates and you could see them going vertical in the days since the Fed announcement and Bernanke’s press...
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Apartment Building Loan Rates Fall as Spreads Narrow
Back on June 24th I wrote a post Analysis on Tapering QE3 talking about how traders fears about the end of the Fed’s money printing spree made the interest rate on the 10 year Treasury jump. And as I...
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10yr Treasury back in 2.6% range bringing apartment loan rates up. The spread...
Quick update: The 10 year Treasury (T10) climbed back up into the 2.60% range while the 10 year fixed apartment building loan we track moved up to 5.033%. The spread between them widened to 242bp but...
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10yr fixed apartment loan rate remains below 5.1% as 10yr Treasury ranges in...
The rate on the 10yr fixed (30yr amortization) apartment building loan we track stayed in the 5.0-5.1% range for the second week while the spread to the 10yr Treasury remained in the 240 area, still...
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Apartment Building Loan Rates Rise as 10yr Treasury jumps 31bp in Ten Days
After two weeks of holding at 5.068% the apartment loan rate we track rose to 5.274%, pushed higher by the 10yr Treasury moving up 31 basis points in the last week and a half. The spread between the...
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Multifamily Loan Rates Moderate Then Dip, Good For Apartment Building Investors.
10 year apartment building loan rates had been in a range the last few weeks until Ben Bernanke ‘failed to taper’ last Wednesday causing the bellwether 10 Year Treasury to fall about a dozen basis...
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Good News on Latest 10yr Treasury, Apartment Building Loan Rates and Spread...
In more good news for apartment building investors, both the 10 year Treasury and apartment loan rates have moderated since the Fed’s “non-taper” announcement in mid-September. The spread between the...
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Apartment Loan Rate Falls To Nine Month Low of 4.743%
After spending just one week above its six month moving average the spread between the apartment investment loan rate we track and the 10 year Treasury (T10) fell to 2.143 with the apartment loan rate...
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Apartment Loan Rate Stays Below 5% For 10th Week
The apartment investment loan we tract (see below for details) clocked in at 4.861% this week making it the 10th week in a row below 5%. Meanwhile the spread between it and the benchmark 10 year...
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Apartment Building Investment Loan Rate Trends Lower as 10yr Treasury and...
The apartment building investment loan rate we track continued to trend downward as both the 10yr Treasury (T10) and the spread between the two came in during April. Today’s new rate on the loan is...
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Rates For Apartment Building Loans About Where They Were A Year Ago Just Before…
The apartment loan rate we track popped up into the 4.70s today after spending the last three weeks in the 4.60s. Today’s 4.71% rate is about the same as it was a year ago, just before the taper...
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Apartment Building 10yr Loan Rates: Is 4.5% The Lower Limit?
The apartment building investment loan rate we track was down to the high 4.5s the last couple weeks of August and clocked in today at 4.603%. The spread between it and the 10 year Treasury has been...
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Spreads Widen on 10 Year Apartment Investment Loan Rate, Trend or Seasonal?
The 10 year apartment building investment loan rate we track has returned to its old boundary of four and a half percent despite Treasuries in the two and teens again at the end of November. On the...
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#Multifamily Loan Spread Spikes as Rate Flatlines In Face of Falling Treasuries
Once again apartment building investment loan rates have hit the hard boundary of 4.5% even while the 10yr Treasury (T10) falls back below 2% for the first time since May 2013. This is causing the 120...
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10 Year #Multifamily Loan Rate Now Below 4.5% on Falling Treasury
After flatlining at 4.5% for over 10 weeks, the 1oyr apartment building investment loan rate we track dropped to 4.375% in the middle of January and has remained there since: All this while the 10 year...
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Apartment Building Investment Loan Rate Continues Its Steady State
The apartment building investment loan rate we track remains at 4.375% where it landed back in the middle of January. Other than a brief one-week visit to 3.396% back in March which wasn’t even enough...
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10yr #Multifamily Investment Loan Rate Comes Back to Life, Rises 7.9 Basis...
The 10 year apartment building investment loan rate we track moved up to 4.454% from 4.375% yesterday after flatlining at the old rate since the middle of January: Even so it is still below what we...
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Are Interest Rates Caught in a Catch 22?
Are interest rates caught in a Catch-22? What if the Fed is waiting to raise rates until the economy is growing stronger but the economy won’t grow stronger until rates go up? For three years everyone...
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