January 19, 2018
Understanding Homeownership
The Housing Finance Policy Center at the Urban Institute released its House Finance at a Glance Chartbook for December. It states that financial education “can help reduce barriers to homeownership.” As I argue below, I do not think that … Continue reading
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January 17, 2018
How to Rent out A Condo
Realtor.com quoted me in How to Rent out a Condo: Watch out! It’s Not the Same as a Home. It opens, How to rent out a condo: This may seem like a simple question, but if you own a condominium, you probably … Continue reading
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January 7, 2018
Installment Land Contracts: Uses, Abuses, and Legislative Proposals
Professors’ Corner A FREE monthly webinar featuring a panel of law professors, addressing topics of interest to practitioners of real estate and trusts/estates Tuesday, January 9, 2018 12:30 p.m. Eastern/11:30 a.m. … Continue reading
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December 13, 2017
The Impact of Tax Reform on Real Estate
Cushman & Wakefield have posted The Great Tax Race: How the World’s Fastest Tax Reform Package Could Impact Commercial Real Estate. There is a lot of interesting insights in the report, notwithstanding the fact that ultimate fate of the Republicans’ … Continue reading
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December 12, 2017
What in the World Is a Lis Pendens?
MoneyTips.com (via NBC news affiliate NewsWest 9) quoted me in Should I Worry About A Lis Pendens in A Title Report? It opens, Is there anyone this side of a Supreme Court Justice who hasn’t signed off on a document without … Continue reading
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December 11, 2017
Challenges for Modern Housing Markets
I will be speaking in a free American Bar Association webinar tomorrow, Challenges for Modern Housing Markets: Our current housing system is not sustainable in terms of the market, residential tenure, cost … Continue reading
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December 7, 2017
Preparing for the Next Housing Tsunami
Greg Kaplan et al. posted The Housing Boom and Bust: Model Meets Evidence to SSRN. The abstract reads, We build a model of the U.S. economy with multiple aggregate shocks (income, housing finance conditions, and beliefs about future housing demand) … Continue reading
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