by Adnan Zai | Dec 27, 2019 | Senior Housing
Stories regarding Japan’s aging population aren’t uncommon today. The geographically small but globally impactful island nation is a place of interest for demographers, economists and the like who want to look forward at the impacts of an aging population. In the...
by Adnan Zai | Dec 21, 2019 | Global Economy
CNBC recently reported on Deutsche Bank’s perceived market risks for the United States, sent by Deutsche Bank’s chief economist Torsten Slok to a list of clients. As the new year dawns on us, I’ll go over some of these in relation to our business. For the sake of...
by Adnan Zai | Dec 13, 2019 | Global Economy
Despite slowing growth and concern over when a global downturn will come, the U.S. remains a safe place for cross-border investment. National Real Estate Investor reported this week that cross-border real estate deals totaled $46.2 billion in the first nine months, up...
by Adnan Zai | Nov 27, 2019 | Global Economy
Bloomberg reported on November 20th that the rich in Europe are increasingly investing in precious metals, cash and cryptocurrency in efforts to hedge against a future recession, as well as avoid negative interest rates. Those rates are causing sitting cash to lose...
by Adnan Zai | Nov 20, 2019 | Senior Housing
Talk within Senior Housing moves between concerns about undersupply and oversupply, with most discussion gathering around the latter. That particular concern isn’t hard to understand: while undersupply is optimistic for the developers, oversupply is an obvious...