Spooky Sell Signal
Where is the real estate market heading after the pandemic?
Before the pandemic, we heard that the real estate prices are too high, housing is inaccessible to the middle class, big metropoles are overcrowded,... The current crisis will seemingly deliver us from all these issues. But what will be the price to pay?
The social distancing rule brings already significant changes in the catering and hostelry sectors. Most restaurant, bars and clubs operate with a high volume-low margin model and are facing extinction in the current constraints imposed by the coronavirus crisis. The initial data from Italy, show that after reopening, more than 25 % of businesses operating in catering and hostelry may never open again. For those remaining in business, the observed default rate could peak over the next 12 months.
The massive increase in online commerce is a severe threat to commercial real estate. The remote work decreases pressure on the infrastructure and should reduce the occupancy rates in offices.
The first heavy tendency in the real estate sector is a massive crunch in commercial property prices. Moreover, some of the commercial real estates may lose its value entirely and transformed in housing, where possible.
The second heavy tendency is a significant drop in prices in housing prices. The dip is expected to be higher in metropoles, where we will witness an exodus towards less agglomerated areas. Indeed, when you are a full-stack developer is more comfortable to live and work from Boise, Idaho than in San Francisco Area. If you are a web designer is much cheaper and more inspiring to live in San Luca in the South of Italy, than in a Frankfurt suburb.
A small increasing trend could occur in some niche markets encompassing
industrial property and country-side houses.
Another factor impacting the real-estate price is a foreseeable
increase in the mortgage rates. Despite a decrease of the interest rates
across the board, the rise in unemployment and the massive GDP contraction
drives the mortgage rates to higher levels, thereby putting additional
pressure on real estate housing.
The pandemic could reshape the real estate market landscape brutally.
The market contraction depends on the size of the exodus and the
economy's capacity to absorb such a big shock.
So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Exodus 3:8
The Dow Jones US REIT index reflects the performance of US-based real estate investment trusts (REIT) and other companies that invest directly or indirectly in real estate. Since the beginning of the year, this index dipped by 21 %, underperforming the Dow Jones that lost only 14%. While the equity index shows signs of recovery, the REIT index remained clustered around the same level after the April rebound. It delivers of strong signal about the foreseeable situation of the real estate market.
The residential property continued to generate revenue since the beginning
of the pandemic, but the market expects a significant correction in housing
prices. The other side of the medallion is that commercial property could
remain indefinitely in limbo, with meagre rent collections and no
transactions.
The evolution of REITs' prices provides an accurate snapshot of the expected dislocation on the real estate market.
Simon Property Group (NYSE: SPG) the biggest US REIT in retail property lost more than 60% of its capitalization amid the pandemic. It underscores the highly distressed situation of commercial properties- Avalonbay Communities (NYSE: AVB) and Equity Residential (NYSE: EQR), REITs investing in residential properties plunged by over 25% since the beginning of the year.
The shares of the leading hotel chains underperformed the equity indices.
Wyndham Worldwide, Choice Hotels and Marriott International plunged dipper
than the S&P 500 and recovered less. Since the beginning of the year
S&P 500 lost around 9.5%, while Wyndham and Marriott lots more than 40%
of their capitalisations. Choice Hotels announced a brand conversion
strategy and consequently had a smoother price contraction of 24%.
The outlook of the hostelry sector is not bright, and the low number
of tourists at the beginning of the summer could bring further
corrections.
As expected, the Gold ounce and the Brent crude oil continued their progressions. Over the next week, we can witness a price stalling on the commodities prices, but in the long term, the trend should remain positive. Bitcoin's prince swung around the 9,000 USD level and lost its momentum from early May. While the perspective it still bullish on Bitcoin the timing is uncertain.
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