October 21, 2015
Buy-To-Rent Investing
James Mills, Raven Molloy and Rebecca Zarutskie have posted Large-Scale Buy-to-Rent Investors in the Single-Family Housing Market: The Emergence of a New Asset Class? to SSRN. The abstract reads, In 2012, several large firms began purchasing single-family homes with the … Continue reading
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Wednesday’s Academic Roundup
Clustered Housing Cycles, Ruben Hernandez-Murillo, Michael Owyang & Margarita Rubio, FRB St. Louis Paper No. FEDLWP2-13-021. Crowding Out Effects of Refinancing on New Purchase Mortgages, Steven A. Sharpe & Shane M. Sherlund, FEDS Working Paper No. FEDGFE2015-17. The Determinants of … Continue reading
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October 14, 2015
Wednesday’s Academic Roundup
Pricing Residential Real Estate Derivatives, Mark Michael Richter. Local House Prices and Mental Health, Nayan Krishna Joshi, International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics, 2015. Why Did So Many Subprime Borrowers Default During the Crisis: Loose Credit or Plummeting … Continue reading
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October 9, 2015
Friday’s Government Reports Roundup
The National Resource Network, NYU Wagner and the Urban Institute released a report, Striking a (Local) Grand Bargain, “that offers a new way for cities and anchor institutions to collaborate on projects.” Anchor institutions include universities, medical centers and hospitals. … Continue reading
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October 8, 2015
Severe Crowding in NYC
New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer has issued a report, Hidden Households, that shows that more than one in twelve NYC homes are crowded. The report opens, New York City is in the midst of a protracted housing emergency. The … Continue reading
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September 30, 2015
Wednesday’s Academic Roundup
Notices of Abatement vs Defects of Title, Roger Bernhardt, 38 Real Property Law Reporter 51 (Cal CEB Mar. 2015). Cities and Health: A Response to the Recent Commentaries, Michael K. Gusmano, Victor G. Rodwin, & Daniel Weisz, NYU Wagner Research … Continue reading
September 30, 2015 in Rental Housing | Permalink | No Comments
September 22, 2015
Severely Cost-Burdened Renters
Enterprise Community Partners and the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University have issued a report, Projecting Trends in Severely Cost-Burdened Renters: 2015-2025. The report opens, At last measure in 2013, over one in four renters, or 11.2 million … Continue reading
September 22, 2015 in Rental Housing | Permalink | No Comments
