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  • February 20, 2023

    January Job Report Exceeds Expectations

    While January was littered with headlines about technology sector layoffs, the data itself couldn’t be more convincing of the strength of the current labor market in the United States. Nonfarm payroll jumped to 517,000 jobs, utterly decimating the Dow ...
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  • August 12, 2020

    Back to School: A New Look at College Town Home Price Appreciation

    Colleges are traditionally considered economic hubs of the towns they reside in, offering a unique perspective on home price appreciation. With COVID-19 upending all aspects of life, we evaluate how this affects investing in residential real estate - a...
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  • August 10, 2020

    New York City-Dwellers Set Sights on a New Prized Penthouse: The Suburbs

    Unison looks into moving trends during COVID-19, specifically from Manhattan to the NYC suburbs. The findings confirm that suburban housing markets are persevering better than their adjacent urban areas.
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  • June 4, 2020

    Common Questions on California Hazard Insurance

    We’re once again approaching fire season in California. While rain in April and May brought a slight reprieve, rainfall was not enough to compensate for one of the driest starts to a year on record. The combination of drought conditions and Covid-19, w...
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  • April 1, 2020

    SFR REIT's & Unison: A Real Estate Super Investment

    Investors seeking exposure to residential real estate often ask why they should choose a home equity co-investment strategy over Single Family Rentals (SFR). In this article, we will break down the notion of the “one or the other” approach.
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  • April 1, 2020

    Historic Turmoil and US Residential Real Estate Performance

    The recent eruption of Covid-19 onto the world stage has brought about significant turmoil within financial markets, as well as other asset classes traditionally deemed to be non-correlated. Residential real estate can provide a repository of shelter f...
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  • September 18, 2019

    The Shape of the Yield Curve and Home Price Returns

    An inverted yield curve is a negative indicator for stock returns, prompting risk aversion among market participants. As shown in the chart below, stocks perform poorly in environments of inverted yield curves. Housing on the other hand has not demonst...
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  • September 16, 2019

    Managing the Risk of Home Volatility

    In the U.S., we generally consider homes a bedrock investment. They’re a key anchor of many Americans' financial portfolios - and, increasingly, their retirement plans. But is that wise? The index shows that the long run average annualized volatility o...
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  • January 4, 2019

    An Asset Class that Deserves a Home: Residential Real Estate

    Residential real estate is the largest asset class in the world, and is an invaluable hedge asset for investors with inflation-exposed liabilities. Home Ownership Investments are equity investments in individual homes made alongside the owner—they prov...
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  • April 26, 2018

    Residential Real Estate within an LDI Approach to Investing

    An LDI approach to investing necessitates looking at a pension’s assets exclusively from the lens of how they fare relative to the scope, size, and nature of a plan’s liabilities. Given the risk exposures of a typical pension plan, a residential real ...
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  • October 25, 2017

    Home Analytics Part 1: Long Run Returns

    In this Home Analytics series, we will develop a toolbox of statistical methods to help analyze the home as a financial asset. We begin by estimating expected risk, returns, and correlation to other asset classes. Later, we will explore applications of...
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  • May 30, 2017

    Are your nest eggs all in one basket? Managing concentration risk in personal wealth

    The “optimal” investment portfolio for an individual will be dependent on a multitude of factors, such as the person’s age, salary, liquidity needs, specific financial goals, and risk tolerance. These unique, individual circumstances should dictate th...
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  • April 5, 2017

    When you invest in real estate funds, fees matter.

    Real estate investment opportunities that reduce the potential for fees to chip away at returns should be considered as an attractive method to avoid the risk that fees and costs associated with maintaining assets erode returns (fees such as leasing fe...
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  • March 8, 2017

    Sunshine and residential real estate

    Can a price be put on the pleasure of enjoying a mild winter’s day? To answer this question, we turned to residential real estate prices, as a measure of how much people were willing to pay to live in a sunnier location.
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  • January 20, 2017

    The Devil is in the details: risk and return in residential real estate

    Residential real estate equity is one of the largest asset classes in the United States and is a significant proportion of the average household’s net worth. We study how diversified real estate indices lead to a dramatic understatement of the median h...
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  • January 20, 2017

    Why institutional investors need to invest in residential real estate

    With over $71 trillion USD in AUM, institutional investment is a core driver of the global economy. Institutional entities have the common objective of generating cash flows capable of fulfilling future obligations. These obligations fluctuate with res...
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