Homeowner insurance premiums increased about 33% on average from 2020 to 2023. The more likely a home is considered to have a higher disaster risk, the more those homeowners pay — about $500 more per year in 2023 than those who don’t live in a place considered a high-risk disaster area.

Office utilization in River North is about 48% of its 2019 level. That compares with an average of 55% in Chicago’s central business district and 62% nationally.

The costs associated with owning a Florida condo have exploded. A combination of insurance increases, special assessments and limited financing options have elevated costs and sparked a wave of sales, flooding the market and straining prices. Condo prices in the state of Florida overall have fallen between 1% and 6% each month annually since July 2024.

In the U.S., the richest 10% have 36.3% of their total assets in stocks and mutual funds, with real-estate comprising 18.7% of their total assets.

In the first quarter of 2025, businesses leased about 115 million square feet of office space, a 13% increase from the fourth quarter of 2024 and the most since the middle of 2019.

Americans have amassed $35 trillion of wealth in their homes. Home equity has climbed nearly 80% since early 2020—up from $19.5 trillion—thanks to a turbocharged rise in house prices. That was about twice the rise in financial wealth including stocks and bonds as of the end of 2024.

First-time buyers hit a record low share of the homebuying market last year, with only 24% of homebuyers saying they were purchasing a home for the first time — a substantial drop from the 32% who said the same the year prior. Meanwhile, baby boomers were the largest cohort of homebuyers last year, making up 42% of all homebuyers.

Morgan Properties, the country’s largest privately held apartment landlord, has agreed to pay $501 million for 11 multifamily properties across the Midwest, the latest wager that the region’s lack of supply provides fertile ground for rent hikes.

A near-record-low 30 million square feet of net-new retail was built nationwide last year, compared with 221 million square feet in 2006.

The Twin Cities again has the highest level of commercial real estate distress among all major U.S. metros. The Minneapolis-St. Paul MSA, had a 49.7% distress rate, which measures the current balances of CMBS loans that are distressed against all such loan balances. Behind Minneapolis, the metro areas of Providence, Rhode Island, saw a distress rate of 45.4%, while Rochester, New York, experienced a 35.7% distress rate. The overall distress rate for all loans across every metro was 10.8%, as of last month.