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It’s Always Darkest Before the Dawn

The end of the Federal Reserve’s rate-hiking campaign and increased transaction activity will make 2024 a year of improved transparency and credit access for commercial real estate in the U.S., according to a new research paper by Morris Chen, Director of DoubleLine Capital’s Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities and Commercial Real Estate Debt team, and Product Specialist Phil Gioia.
The Misunderstood Housing Market, a Rate Paradox and a Magic Number
Conventional thinking holds that higher interest rates mean lower home prices – or the corollary, lower rates mean higher prices. This naïve formulation, DoubleLine Portfolio Manager Ken Shinoda argues, overlooks the interplay of home prices and mortgage costs with housing supply and demand dynamics.
Round Table Prime Event

During the macroeconomic segment of its 2024 edition, participants in DoubleLine Round Table Prime among other issues debate the seeming failure of the most telegraphed recession in history to materialize in 2023, the intersection of Federal Reserve policy with a presidential election year and deep changes in the economy post-2020.