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From Jason Payne, Market News Analyst …
Today’s timely Market News Update uses a bit of “old school” research to decipher some potentially confusing housing market data released during recent days.
In my former career as a stock market analyst, some stockbrokers used to make fun of my Real Estate Research team for caring about this stuff.
“Why do we need real estate analysts anyway?” they would wonder aloud, as they hurried past our “boring” offices to ask the Technology Research team about a hot new IPO. “It’s not like real estate ever changes… What is there to research?!”
That was before 2008, of course.
Real estate analysts became rockstars overnight in August 2008 when trouble in the U.S. housing market catalyzed numerous “crises” across financial markets worldwide, kickstarting 5 years (and counting) of global economic turmoil.
Suddenly, the news about real estate data seemed much more dynamic – and often contradictory.
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Jason Payne
is a management consultant and founder of the Groundwar Group -- a private consulting firm providing premier corporate advisory and leadership training solutions for business leaders and investors worldwide. Mr. Payne is also the Senior Market News Analyst and a featured "Mindset" advisor for more than 15,000 entrepreneurs and investors at RealEstateMogul.com -- roles he has held since 2013 and 2014, respectively. In these capacities, Jason draws from more than a decade of successful business and investment research on Wall Street to provide insightful commentaries on a wide variety of investing- and leadership-related topics.
Mr. Payne began his career as a research analyst in the award-winning Equity Research department of Morgan Keegan & Company, where at 26 years of age, he became one of the youngest published analysts on Wall Street -- with a specialized focus on real estate investment trusts (REITs). Jason also holds a degree in Finance from New York University's prestigious Leonard N. Stern School of Business, and he is currently completing his professional residency within the Global Leadership Training program of Uruguay's multinational Geronimo Center for Innovation & Leadership.