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Cal State Companies: Center for Real
Estate Studies ¨ Cal
State Properties ¨ Cal State Investment LTD Partnership
Real Estate Investments-A Year Ahead
The past year has been filled with
various forms of uncertainty. The one thing that seems certain is that
companies are less likely to make growth plans and
capital investments
in the face of such uncertainty. With presidential elections in 2020 and banks willing to accommodate, we expect a
softening of economic activity.
The driving force remains domestic
demand, especially private consumption, based on our strong labor market, which
is operating close to full employment. The path for economic activity and risks
has become unusually dependent on the ability of our administration to avoid an
outright trade war with China .
We believe the bank’s easing of interest rates will be strong enough to avert a
slowdown in economic growth, prolonging the current economic expansion and
supporting earnings growth
“We’ve been optimistic,” Ashworth said in a telephone interview. He and his colleagues had long assumed that the united Republican government in
“The Fed’s economic projections, which envisage the economy growing above trend all the way out to 2020, strike us as far too upbeat,” wrote senior
The economists expect only “a modest downturn that’s quickly reversed” in 2020, but of course the expansion has to end sometime. By then, it will be the longest expansion in
We believe that the best way to hedge against the uncertainty in the year ahead is to invest in midsize apartments in “Pockets of Opportunity’ as reported in our quarterly research report Market Cycles.
ABOUT THE
AUTHOR: Eugene E. Vollucci, is
considered to be one of the foremost authorities on real estate taxation
and investing and has authored books in
these fields published by John Wiley & Sons of New York. He is the Director
of the Center for RE Studies, an educational and research organization. To
learn more about the Center, please visit our web site at http://www.calstatecompanies.com
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