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May 11, 2023

From Boardrooms to Bedrooms: Does Office-to-Residential Conversion Make Sense?

By Karina Jugo
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11May

The U.S. real estate market is anticipating a possible shake-up resulting from a glut in vacant commercial spaces. Following the pandemic, many have lost their jobs and fewer workers are returning to the physical office setting. A large number of businesses are also opting for remote or work-from-home (WFH) arrangements. As of September 2021, 20.3 million employees are working remotely compared...

March 6, 2019

Things Real Estate Investors Should Watch Out for in 2019

By Justin Stowe
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06March

What should real estate investors watch out for in 2019? Like everything else, you’ll find all kinds of opinions from experts. After doing our research, here are the things we believe are most likely to happen this year. Millennials are Becoming Homebuyers The Great Recession’s impact on housing, combined with a growing student loan crisis, have made it difficult for millenials to purchase homes...

December 3, 2016

TWiRP- December 3rd, 2016

By Alec Langford
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03December

Climate Change Could Swamp East Coast Real Estate Rising sea levels are changing the way people think about waterfront real estate. Over the past five years, home sales in flood-prone areas grew about 25 percent. This has made state lawmakers in Massachusetts and New Jersey to begin pushing to impose new rules on real estate agents and others, obligating them to disclose climate-related damage...

December 5, 2015

TWiRP – December 5, 2015

By Jiwon Park
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05December

This week in rental property, mortgage rates slipped for the third straight week. While the Fed is signalling to raise interest rates later this month, the Wall Street Journal gave a talk on how the U.S. housing fundamentals will withstand the interest increase. The New York Times analyzed the trend in Chinese investments on U.S. housing market. Many economists have predicted the housing market...

January 5, 2015

Housing Market Predictions for 2015: Part 2

By Elizabeth Hayes
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05January

Rental markets will stay strong While first time home ownership will rise in 2015, thanks to households headed by 30-somethings bankrolled by greater job security and rising confidence in the housing market, younger Millennials leaving college dorms and their parent’s homes will keep the rental market robust. Americans in their 20s strongly prefer to rent in urban centers close to jobs and...

March 24, 2014

Freddie Mac’s Report On The Multifamily Markets

By Kurt Kroeck
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24March

 
According to Freddie Mac’s recent report, the multifamily market has been showing signs of things moving towards better times. As a matter of fact, many economists credit the conditions of the multifamily market with leading the way in terms of recovery in a broader scope macro economy.

March 10, 2012

Record Low Mortgage Rates Not Enough To Boost Housing Market

By Bryan Perez
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10March

The housing market is still struggling to gain a good pace. That’s a nice way of saying the market is still doing poorly. And as another sign of the bad conditions, mortgage rates have reached historic lows. 15-year fixed-rate mortgages averaged 3.13% last week, a new record low. And the average rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage fell to 3.88%, less than 1% from the record low. The low...

February 10, 2012

Mortgage Deal Good Start But Not Enough To Finish

By Bryan Perez
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10February

Yesterday, a mortgage settlement was announced between Federal and State Governments and 5 major banks. The deal will require lenders to write down the mortgages of certain borrowers who are underwater. Homeowners who owe more than their homes are worth will see a reduction in the principal amount. The hope is this will curb the number of foreclosures and house prices will start increasing again...

October 17, 2011

Curb Your Capitalism… The Federal Open Market Calamity and dis-Interest Rates

By Tony Salloum
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17October

As short-term political motivation sullies the sanctity of central banking, presumptuous open market meddling, unrestrained by the boundaries of logic, makes a ticking time bomb of Federal Funds. It’s time we meditate on circumstance, accounting for the rational and the hardly so. Let’s see: inflation without spending? A stagnant, yet expanded money supply? At what point did capitalism become so...

October 15, 2010

Friday Morning Links – All Real Estate Agents

By Tony Salloum
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15October

Not many newbie real estate agents, but here’s a few tips to those going for it never-the-less: 6 Steps to Becoming a Real Estate Agent . It might help for you veterans to revisit your roots. Speaking of you veteran agents, it seems that there are a few ways to keep business moving during a recession. Wonder why the savvy real estate investors always stay on top of the game? Well, it might...

July 19, 2010

Real Estate Agent Tips for 2011

By Tony Salloum
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19July

Few felt the financially tragic effects of our economic collapse in a way similar to commission-based real estate agents. Many aim to endure the economic storm with hopes of brighter days to come; however, if agents ignore the market shifts, the sun may never shine again. Changes are many and all of different origin, some direct and others indirect; regardless, time to assess what has happened...

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