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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December 6, 2017
Taking Down Barriers to Homeownership
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
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December 5, 2017
Buying after Bankruptcy
Realtor.com quoted me in Buying a House After Bankruptcy? How Long to Wait and What to Do. It opens, Buying a house after bankruptcy may sound like an impossible feat. Blame it on all those Monopoly games, but bankruptcy has a very … Continue reading
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November 30, 2017
Storm-Induced Delinquencies
The Urban Institute’s Housing Finance Policy Center has released its November 2017 Housing Finance at a Glance Chartbook. The Introduction looks out how this summer’s big storms have pushed up delinquency rates: The Mortgage Bankers Association recently released the results … Continue reading
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