Market Insights: Perspectives

Between 2020 and 2022 monthly asking rents increased by 15 percent marking the fastest spike in rents in nearly a century. This statistic coupled with ever-rising home prices have pushed some casual observers into a state of fear regarding an impending crisis. Between these factors and tightening credit, steeply rising interest rates, and distress within the commercial sector at large, many are ma...

Lately, business media outlets have sounded alarm bells regarding the commercial real estate sector, peppering in dramatic terms like “tsunami” and “crash” to illustrate what they’re forecasting as an impending crisis in the market. We’ve been closely monitoring these articles, and we share the consensus that several formidable economic factors are converging within the commercial real estate a...

The U.S. economy is facing a number of challenges including high inflation, rising interest rates, and a downgrade of the country’s credit rating. However, business leaders should not be alarmed by these headlines. A similar downgrade occurred in 2011, and while market dynamics are different to then, these developments are most commonly associated with the back side of the natural economic cyc...

In 2020, Roers Companies’ development team saw potential in land being marketed for sale in Lakeville, Minnesota. Despite the uncertainty brought on in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, our team moved forward and purchased the land for what would become Northlake Lofts. The opportunity was too good to pass up. At the time, Lakeville was number one for home building growth and in the top ...

In the dynamic world of real estate investment, how does one decide between a single-family home and a multifamily property? While investing in single-family homes and renting them out remains a prevalent practice, multifamily properties are proving to offer better stability and profitability in 2023. Here are four compelling reasons why multifamily real estate stands out as the investment ...