Monthly Archives: March 2015
Foreign Funding for Real Estate Projects
March 20, 2015
by David Reiss
Jeanne Calderon and Gary Friedland have posted A Roadmap to the Use of EB-5 Capital: An Alternative Financing Tool for Commercial Real Estate Projects. The paper provides a great overview of a relatively new source of funding for real estate deals. … Continue reading
Read MoreFriday’s Government Reports
by Serenna McCloud
Federal Housing Finance Agency’s Report on the Progress of Implementation of its Strategic Plan for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Conservatorships House Republicans Budget Plan “A Balanced Budget for a Stronger America,” Would Change Funding for process for Consumer Financial Protection Bureau … Continue reading
Read MoreTax Expenditure Wars: Wealthy Households v. Poor
March 19, 2015
by David Reiss
Henry Rose has posted How Federal Tax Expenditures That Support Housing Contribute to Economic Inequality to SSRN. This short article examines “how federal income tax laws benefit more affluent owner households but provide no benefits to economically-strapped renter households.” (1) Housing … Continue reading
Read MoreThursdays Advocacy & Think Tank Round-Up
by Serenna McCloud
Citilab Calculates and Charts the Number of Years of Income it Would Take for the Average Household to Buy a Home in Metro Areas Across the Country CoreLogic’s Equity Report Finds Millions of Homes Still In Negative Equity Situation Fannie … Continue reading
Read MoreReiss on Foreign Buyers in NYC
March 18, 2015
by David Reiss
MainStreet.com quoted me in Foreign Buyers Driving Up Rental Prices Impacts New York Residents. The story opens, Emir Bahadir, a native of Turkey, purchased two apartments in Manhattan for the purpose of renting them out. The 24-year-old paid a total of … Continue reading
Read MoreWednesday’s Academic Roundup
by Shea Cunningham
Cohousing: An Idea for the Modern Age, by Nancy J. White & Charly Loper, February 18, 2015. Failure to Launch: Housing, Debt Overhang, and the Inflation Option During the Great Recession, by Aaron Hedlund, February 23, 2015. Have Distressed Neighborhoods … Continue reading
Read MoreCFPB Mortgage Supervision Highlights
March 17, 2015
by David Reiss
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued its Supervisory Highlights for Winter 2015. The highlights include a section on Mortgage Origination and “largely focuses on Supervision’s examination findings and observations from July 2014 to December 2014.” (9) The headings of this … Continue reading
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