by Ross Bowler | Oct 24, 2025 | Market Commentary
Changes
Since 2018, Simon Bowler has produced the data-laden report, which we call The State of REITs, monthly (it’s published elsewhere but resides on the 2MC website for your easy access). Early in the process of gathering numbers for the October edition, he noted that the long-observed higher multiples in favor of large caps had broken, and that shares were now trading more independently of size. Looking closer, it got stranger still.
				
					
			
					
				
															
					
					 by Ross Bowler | Oct 7, 2025 | Recent Reads
Like most good cities, Madison sponsors an annual book festival. Last year’s program included fiction and non-fiction from local, national, and international authors, and my favorite event was the presentation by Nicola Twilley, author of Frostbite.
				
					
			
					
				
															
					
					 by Ross Bowler | Sep 30, 2025 | Baseline +
Supply and Demand The Law of Supply and Demand is a foundational principle of economics. As an example, consider that the supply of steel would be determined by the availability of iron (Fe) and the perceived demand for steel. The steel demand would, in part at least,...				
					
			
					
				
															
					
					 by Ross Bowler | Sep 19, 2025 | Market Commentary
Market Commentary | September 18, 2025 Resuming the Path to Lower Interest Rates After a seemingly interminable 9-month pause, on September 17th, Jerome Powell’s Central Bank cut the Fed Funds rate by 25 basis points. As real estate is considered one of the most...				
					
			
					
				
															
					
					 by Ross Bowler | Jul 30, 2025 | Market Commentary
Market Commentary | July 29, 2025 Persistence, Perseverance, and Patience Pay Off Being dedicated REIT investors, we try to cover and analyze every issue in our universe. For City Office REIT (CIO), that has meant a quiet following of the issue since its 2014 IPO....