📉   Whitestone REIT: Southwest's Growing Pains Will Be Retail Landlords' Growing Gains

Finance

In hope of making timely identification of real estate opportunities, we closely monitor national and regional demographic trends. The employment and migration related trends of the last few years let investors anticipate significant demand growth for housing in the sunbelt. The response to that obvious trend, coupled with abundant availability of low-cost capital, allowed developers to create temporary apartment oversupply in certain markets. An August 26th Wall Street Journal article describes that, beyond housing supply, surging populations can lead to other problems like water shortages and congested highway commutes.

seekingalpha.com     Aug 30, 2024