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Editor: David Reiss
Brooklyn Law School

January 17, 2018

How to Rent out A Condo

By David Reiss

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

January 7, 2018

Installment Land Contracts:  Uses, Abuses, and Legislative Proposals

By David Reiss

                  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

December 13, 2017

The Impact of Tax Reform on Real Estate

By David Reiss

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

December 12, 2017

What in the World Is a Lis Pendens?

By David Reiss

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

December 11, 2017

Challenges for Modern Housing Markets

By David Reiss

                  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

December 7, 2017

Preparing for the Next Housing Tsunami

By David Reiss

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

December 6, 2017

Taking Down Barriers to Homeownership

By David Reiss

Laurie Goodman and her colleagues at the Urban Institute’s Housing Finance Policy Center have released a report, Barriers to Accessing Homeownership Down Payment, Credit, and Affordability. The Executive Summary states that Saving for a down payment is a considerable barrier … Continue reading