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Eso no es de lo que habla el artículo que enlazó Derby. Lo que dice el artículo es que Manhattan se hunde por el peso de los edificios, nada más.Que Shanghai se hunde por la extracción de aguas subterráneas está demostrado y creo recordar que estaban bombeando agua de nuevo a ver si conseguían frenarlo.Hubiera sido muy fácil hacer un artículo serio con esos datos que enlazas y decir que se hunde por el motivo que sea, pero decir que es por el peso de los edificios me parece otro artículo asustaviejas. Como ya hemos visto que el nivel del mar no ha subido los dos metros que anticipaban para el 2000 ni para el 2020 ahora es por los edificios. Mientras tanto yo llevo desde que era niño esperando ver cómo las ciudades costeras se transforman en acuarios gigantes bajo el mar y lo único que veo es que siguen secas y creciendo.
Para vuestra información: El dominio no se había renovado automáticamente debido a un cambio en la tarjeta de crédito vinculada. Ya está solucionado.
4. Charted: America's growing rent burdenRent is growing faster than incomes around the country, putting additional pressure on inflation-burdened households, Emily writes.State of play: The median renter in the U.S. would need to spend 29.6% of their monthly income on an average rent in the first quarter of 2023, per a report from Moody's Analytics.That's an "uncomfortably high" ratio, per Moody's — though it's a slight dip from last year when the rent-to-income threshold crossed 30% for the first time ever.And the rub? It's still cheaper to rent than buy in the vast majority of the U.S.A new Redfin report says there are only four major metro areas in the U.S. where a typical home has a lower monthly mortgage cost than its estimated rent — Detroit, Philadelphia, Cleveland and Houston.Context: Back in 1999, New York was the only "rent burdened" metro area in the U.S. (more than 30% of income spent on rent), according to Moody's.By the end of last year, six metros had joined that pricey club — Boston, Northern New Jersey, Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Miami and L.A.Rents surged during the pandemic for a variety of reasons, and they remain high now partly as a side effect of surging mortgage rates. Those rates are keeping would-be first-time homebuyers on the sidelines — and that's pushing up demand for rentals.Go deeper: You can explore average rental costs around the country on Moody's website.
Unexpected but not puzzling: What’s going on with the DC-area spring housing market?Heading into the spring housing market with soaring mortgage rates and near-record high prices, D.C.-area real estate agents were expecting a further slowdown in potential buyer activity and a modest price correction.Neither has happened, at least not to the degree many had anticipated.There are two pieces of the puzzle: Supply and demand. There is a continued lack of sellers, and hopes that more sellers would return to the D.C.-area market this spring and summer have faded.Bright MLS, a multiple listing service, surveyed 1,900 agent members between May 5 and May 10. The survey found more than 54% expect seller activity to be “low to very low” between now and August. Those same agents expect buyer demand to remain stronger than seller activity, however, with 47% expecting buyer activity to be “high to very high” in the next three months.Home sales have slowed significantly from a year ago, but almost entirely because of a lack of inventory, not a lack of buyers. High mortgage rates have not deterred many buyers.“I think we’re all a little surprised that the market hasn’t slowed more than it has,” said Lisa Sturtevant, chief economist with Bright MLS. “More first-time buyers are priced out, but there are a lot of existing homeowners who have a lot of equity built up in their home, and they are able to roll that into another home purchase, and in essence, sort of buy down that higher mortgage.”Those buyers are competing with others for what is on the market. For those selling, competing bids on a fairly-priced home are still very common.“It’s incredible, isn’t it?” Sturtevant said. “We sort of thought after the frenzy of the pandemic the market would slow down and we’d be back to sort of one home, one offer. Sellers are getting multiple offers still, and it is because there are buyers out there still competing over very little inventory.”Median selling prices in the D.C.-metro area have declined modestly for two consecutive months, but they remain higher than they were a year ago, and, because of current market conditions, selling prices are likely to remain strong this year, Sturtevant said.“We really do see that low inventory in the Washington area is probably going to keep any further price drops to a minimum,” she said. “Real estate agents in our market are still seeing lots of offers over list.”In Northern Virginia for example, closed sales in April were down 33.6% from a year ago, but the median selling price was up 0.7% to $690,000.“What we see is consistent with recent trends over the past few months. There are fewer sales happening now than this time last year, but home prices have held steady,” said Ryan McLaughlin, CEO of the Northern Virginia Association of Realtors.First-time buyers do remain active in the Mid-Atlantic region, with 46.1% of buyers who closed in April buying their first home. And Bright MLS said the share of first-time buyers in our region continues to be higher than the rest of the nation, perhaps due to relative affordability between prices and household incomes.
[FECHAS.— Todo el mundo está extrañamente de acuerdo con que el segundo semestre de este 2023 tiene lugar el inicio del proceso de 2.ª vendida del mesías. SERÁ EL 01/10/2023.Y EL SIGUIENTE SERÁ ES EN 2049. ¿Es una coincidencia o una sincronía la 'deadline' del OBOR y 'Blade Runner 2049'?][DERBY.— Tiemblo con solo pensar que el nuevo trabajo de Derby no es en el sector inmobiliario y que, por tanto, nos vamos a quedar sin sus lecturas magistralmente seleccionadas y trabajadas. En cualquier caso, enhorabuena de corazón.][LA ATEA Y LA SUCESIONES Y DONACIONES.— No tenemos nada en contra de que las mujeres manden. Pero sí contra quien, yendo de la derecha, farde de ateísmo y pretenda autocoronarse emperador popular, como hizo Napoleón; y con quien yendo de las izquierdas, farde de herencia y braguetazo, y de que «yo hago con mi dinero lo que me da la gana», como un cayetano ordinario anarcocapitalista-conservador, o lo que es lo mismo, falsoliberal-neoliberal.][LA CAÍDA DE TRANSICIÓN ESTRUCTURAL NET.— Pensé en darme de alta en 'burbuja info' o centrarme en algún canal de YouTube. ¡Uf! Menos mal. ¡Con lo poco que queda para el punto final, después de tantos años!]
Troubled regional lender PacWest sells $2.6 billion loans at discountMay 22 (Reuters) - PacWest Bancorp (PACW.O), one of the lenders seeking to survive the U.S. regional banking crisis, said on Monday it had agreed to sell a $2.6 billion real estate construction loan portfolio at a discount in a bid to improve its balance sheet.PacWest's shares rose 15% on the deal, which gives the California-focused bank breathing space to cope with a flight of deposits that followed the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and other regional peers over the last two months.PacWest has lost three-quarters of its market value since the regional banking crisis started on March 8. It lost 16.9% of its total deposit base at the outset, and has been trying to claw some of it back.PacWest sold 74 real estate construction loans that have an outstanding balance of $2.6 billion to property firm Kennedy-Wilson Holdings Inc (KW.N) for $2.4 billion -- a $200 million discount, a regulatory filing showed on Monday.Kennedy-Wilson said it will also assume $2.7 billion in potential funding obligations associated with the loans, and will take over, subject to clearances secured by PacWest, an additional six real estate construction loans with a balance of about $363 million.PacWest will have to pay Kennedy-Wilson a fee equal to 0.15% of the total commitments of the loans, according to the filing.The loans carry floating interest rates that currently average 8.4%, substantially higher than PacWest's fixed-rate loan portfolio, which was put together when interest rates were much lower. The floating rates allowed PacWest to sell the real estate construction loans at a small discount that reflected a decline in the value of the underlying real estate assets, rather than the rise in interest rates."We believe the decline in risk-weighted assets should offset the loss (from the sale of the loans at a discount), which should result in modest improvement in regulatory capital ratios," Wedbush analysts wrote in a note.The transaction is expected to close in multiple tranches during the second quarter and early part of the third quarter, PacWest said.The Los Angeles-based lender has also said it is exploring a sale of its $2.7 billion lender finance loan portfolio, which it expects to have completed by next month."It takes pressure off the bank from the funding side as they dispose off these loans - they won't have to use either extensive deposits or borrowings to fund that part of the portfolio," said Gary Tenner, managing director at D.A. Davidson & Co.PacWest had indicated in May it was in talks with potential partners and investors about strategic options. Earlier this month, it said it had posted more collateral to the U.S. Federal Reserve to boost the bank's liquidity.PacWest raised $1.4 billion in March from investment firm Atlas Partners SP by borrowing against some of its assets, but that deal has not been sufficient to meet all the bank's liquidity needs.
Pero la gente se cree (quiere creer) que la IA será igual de disruptiva que fue en su día la eclosión de internet.[...]https://realinvestmentadvice.com/the-ai-revolution-a-repeat-of-history/
AI boom could expose investors’ natural stupidityLONDON, May 19 (Reuters Breakingviews) - “My colleagues, they study artificial intelligence,” the Israeli psychologist Amos Tversky once quipped. “Me, I study natural stupidity.” The co-founder of behavioural economics, who died in 1996, did not live to see 2023, when more of his academic colleagues jumped on the AI bandwagon along with venture capitalists, corporate leaders, and stock jocks. But investors should pay closer attention to Tversky’s specialisation. Behavioural economics, which studies how psychological, emotional, and social factors affect human decision-making, has some important pointers for those hoping to cash in on AI.The first lesson is the most obvious: beware of bubbles. Since OpenAI released its ChatGPT chatbot last November, the steady flow of capital into all things AI-related has turned into a torrent. Shares in Nvidia (NVDA.O), the world’s leading maker of chips used in creating AI, have surged more than 100% over the last six months. Software giant Microsoft (MSFT.O) has gained almost $500 billion in market value since announcing in February that it was incorporating AI into its Bing search engine. Investors in Alphabet (GOOGL.O) added a cool $60 billion to the Google owner’s worth in a single day last week after CEO Sundar Pichai unveiled its new AI offering at the company’s annual I/O conference.Indeed, enthusiasm about AI has become the one ray of light piercing the stock market gloom created by the record-breaking rise in U.S. interest rates. SocGen analyst Manish Kabra calculated last week that, excluding AI-related gains, the S&P 500 Index (.SPX) would be down 2% year-to-date. Instead, it was up 8%. The boom even has macroeconomic consequences. Irish Finance Minister Michael McGrath last week unveiled plans for a new 90-billion-euro sovereign wealth fund, largely funded by a corporate tax windfall from tech giants such as Apple (AAPL.O) and Microsoft which are domiciled in the country.[...]https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/ai-boom-could-expose-investors-natural-stupidity-2023-05-19/
Wall Street Week Ahead: Artificial intelligence gives real boost to US stock marketNEW YORK, May 19 (Reuters) - Recent advances in artificial intelligence are fueling optimism over how businesses can operate more productively in the years ahead. They are also providing a big boost to the stock market.The S&P 500's (.SPX) 9% rally this year has been driven by a handful of the index's biggest stocks, a number of which are at the center of the AI frenzy that has spread in the wake of the chatbot sensation ChatGPT.Five stocks - Microsoft (MSFT.O), Google parent Alphabet (GOOGL.O), Nvidia (NVDA.O), Apple (AAPL.O) and Meta Platforms (META.O) - are responsible for the S&P 500's entire year-to-date return, said Jessica Rabe, co-founder of DataTrek Research. About 25% to 50% of those gains are owed to "the buzz around artificial intelligence," she noted.A recent Societe Generale analysis zeroed in on 20 stocks widely owned by AI-related exchange-traded funds, whose overall assets under management have grown almost 40% this year.Removing those stocks from the S&P 500 would reduce the index's performance by roughly 10 percentage points, putting stocks in negative territory for the year, SocGen's analysis showed."It's the AI-driven stocks that are getting the strongest returns," said Manish Kabra, head of US equity strategy at SocGen. "As a secular theme, for sure, it's attractive."[...]https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/wall-st-week-ahead-artificial-intelligence-gives-real-boost-us-stock-market-2023-05-19/
PS Gracias a todos por vuestros buenos deseos para mi nuevo trabajo. Mi paso por el sector inmobiliario ha sido realmente breve, algo más de dos años; muy circunstancial. De cara al foro, he podido comprobar de primera mano algunas de las cuestiones que comentamos a diario. Pero es bastante anecdótico y lo básico ya lo sabemos: ahora mismo el mercado está parado/va al ralentí por el endurecimiento de las condiciones de financiación, se espera que salgan a la venta muchos pisos (el alquiler no da "seguridad") y muchos confían que la Ley por el Derecho a la Vivienda sea algo pasajero (porque empeorará las cosas: mayor dificultad para alquilar). Mi participación en el foro no tiene por qué cambiar en nada. Lo que he visto este tiempo en el sector inmobiliario es lo que ya sabemos y alguna anécdota.