Rutgers Center for Real Estate Blog written by Stephen Malpezzi

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I believe you have my stapler...

A journey through office space from Babylonian scribes to Milton Waddams to Apple’s ‘mothership’ Office work probably began about 3,000 BCE as Babylonian scribes recorded business transactions on clay...

Will the Coast Ever be Clear?

Hurricanes, housing and climate change: Risks and responses Hurricanes Harvey and Irma are just the latest in a long history of cyclones and other extreme weather events that cost lives, real estate...

Housing prices: The ins and outs

Stocks, flows and the impact of housing prices on CPI and inflation We extend discussions of inflation and changes in relative prices from previous posts, focusing on housing prices. Specifically, we...

The Price is Right - or is it?

Taking a longer run look at inflation and relative prices Executive Summary: We extend several recent blog posts by taking a longer run look at inflation, and relative prices. We explain why the Fed...

Seeing the big picture on employment?

Today we’ll examine the “employment elephant” one more time! Executive Summary: Today we’ll examine the “employment elephant” one more time. First, we’ll return to state data, documenting some key...

Missing the Elephant in the Room

As in the old parable, how we understand employment data depends on what we see Executive Summary: Today we’ll continue our look at employment data, in several of its many guises. We’ll briefly...

The one constant: variation?

Income and employment growth is a different animal in every state Executive Summary: Over time, as Julia Coronado showed last week, recent unemployment rates vary by more than a factor of 2, from 4...