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Job Growth as an Indicator

Traditional real estate investment analysis often emphasizes population and household growth as primary indicators to gauge the demand for multifamily units in a given market. However, Rick Scarola, a UF Bergstrom Real Estate Center advisory board member, introduces a compelling alternative metric that leverages employment data to gauge market health. Scarola, a graduate of UF’s [...]

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Thirty-Six-Million-Acre Balancing Act

Long ago, Mark Twain supposedly said, “Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.” The witticism seems ever more apt today, particularly in Florida, where the state’s strong population growth and competition for land is drawing increased attention from academics, public officials and landowners. Researchers at the University of Florida’s Center for Landscape Conservation Planning inventoried [...]

Florida’s Rising Population and Income

By the Numbers 701 Net mitigation of people added to Florida’s population per day in 2021 $83K Average gross income (AGI) of people who moved to Florida in 2021 $42K AGI of people who moved out of Florida in 2021 Sources: IRS, UF Bergstrom Real Estate Center Sources: IRS, UF Bergstrom Real Estate Center Percentages [...]