As the Housing Market Recovers, Will the Apartment Boom End | by Diana Olick

CNBC writes: The latest reports on new and existing home sales seem to indicate that the housing market is beginning to find its footing again. While most believe the recovery will be slow, U-shaped, and bumpy, the free fall appears to be over for both sales and prices ... what effect that recovery will have on the recently booming apartment sector, which benefited from the housing crash?

Housing Sales Rise But Should Be Better | Interview with Ashley Webster

Sam Chandan speaks with Fox Business News anchor Ashley Webster about conditions in the housing market and whether current gains will hold up as mortgage rates rise. Improving affordability metrics reflect higher rents but are not triggering widespread shifts out of the apartment market.

Markets to European Central Bank: Get Germany on Board | by Dhara Ranasinghe

Overly Dependent on Low Interest Rates, Markets Hang on the Possibility of More Quantitative Easing

Sam Chandan discusses the possibility of additional quantitative easing in the United States and rumors that the European Central Bank may seek to cap yields on sovereign bonds.

The soaring United States debt -- about $15.6 trillion -- is financed through the sale of Treasury securities, and these enormous offerings make the U.S. dollar the go-to currency for governments, businesses and investors who need to store reserves with the utmost safety. But the debt cannot continue growing forever, or borrowing costs will deprive the government of money it needs for other purposes. Economists and policy makers -- from right and left -- agree on that.

Apartment Financing Costs Hit Record Lows in Second Quarter | by Michael Tucker

Mortgage Bankers Association NewsLink reports: Apartment lending standards continued to ease in the second quarter, reported Chandan Economics, New York, reflecting higher property prices, lower cap rates and increasingly robust competition among lenders. "The cost of financing apartment acquisitions and refinancing maturing apartment loans fell to record lows in the second quarter," said Sam Chandan, the firm's president and chief economist.