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 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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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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November 6, 2017
A Shortage of Short Sales
Calvin Zhang of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia has posted A Shortage of Short Sales: Explaining the Under-Utilization of a Foreclosure Alternative to SSRN. The abstract reads, The Great Recession led to widespread mortgage defaults, with borrowers resorting to both … Continue reading
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November 3, 2017
Republicans and the Mortgage Interest Deduction
There is a lot to hate in the Republican tax reform plan contained in the proposed Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. (click here for a summary and here for the text of the bill itself). Overall, the bill is extraordinarily regressive, … Continue reading
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