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Let’s face it … It’s nearly impossible to invest in real estate all by yourself. Between sourcing deals, financing, due diligence, and management …
A new White House plan to nationalize housing policy and grant renters more protection has left mom-and-pop landlords with questions and concerns.
To get great answers, you have to ask great questions … And as usual, you delivered. Now it’s our turn … So it’s time
It may come as a bit of a shock to those who have been following the creeping freeze in housing transactions as the bid-ask
While existing home sales slipped to cycle lows in December, new home sales bounced and this morning analysts were surprised to see pending home
Record inflation, trouble on Wall Street, a hemorrhaging bond market … And a wave of corporate layoffs to start off 2023 …
US existing home sales dropped for the 11th straight month in December (-1.5% MoM – slightly less than expected thanks to downward revisions of
Rents Rising Faster Than Home Prices in Almost Half the U.S.; Both Renting and Owning Unaffordable for Average Workers Throughout the Country; Renting Still
The latest evidence that Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s most aggressive interest rate hikes in a generation and spiking mortgage rates might trigger a housing “reset” is
In times of economic uncertainty, assets that are REAL and ESSENTIAL tend to be the most resilient … That’s one of the reasons we
Home prices have started to correct as interest rates rose sharply in 2022. However, the real problem for home prices is still coming in
Tl;dr: Headline and Core CPI printed ‘as expected’ (which is likely disappointing for the whisper numbers and remember the last CPI printed ‘cooler than
Property management firm RealPage published new data that shows demand for US apartments began “evaporating” as early as last summer as the highest inflation in a
No Federal Reserve officials thought it’d be appropriate to begin cutting rates in 2023, and officials worried easing financial conditions could complicate the central
Inflation is accelerating faster than we’ve seen in decades … People around the world are already feeling its effects in their wallet
More tech tantrums. China’s Covid surge. And above all, no central banks riding to the rescue if things go wrong. Reeling from a record
A downturn in the residential real estate market could be nearing, Kieran Clancy, a senior US economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, recently warned. The potential
The U.S. housing market is experiencing its second-biggest home price correction of the post-World War II era.
Existing home sales crashed but new home sales rebounded in November, which leaves today’s pending home sales as the deciding vote for just how
US Home Prices, based on S&P Global’s Case-Shiller data, fell 0.52% MoM in October (the latest data available released this morning), slightly better than
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