April 5, 2017
Wednesday’s Academic Roundup
Small and Medium Multifamily Housing Units: Affordability, Distribution, and Trends, An, Bostic, Jakabovics, Orlando, and Rodnyansky. Spillover Risks in REITs and Other Asset Markets, Chiang, Kittle, Sing, and Tsai Institutional Property-Type Herding in Real Estate Investment Trusts, Lantushenko and Nelling … Continue reading
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April 4, 2017
Tuesday’s Regulatory & Legislative Roundup
After studying the housing crisis of the early 2000’s, Congress created the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau to protect U.S. citizens from poor and damaging practices of the American financial institutions. In early 2017, the Trump Administration questioned the constitutionality of … Continue reading
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April 3, 2017
Monday’s Adjudication Roundup
The J.A. Green Development Corp. is dissatisfied with the services provided by their previous legal and accounting team. The real estate development company sued both their legal and accounting teams due to alleged misguidance regarding their prior tax practices. Trump … Continue reading
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March 31, 2017
Friday’s Government Reports Roundup
Jordan Rappaport of the Federal Reserve of Kansas City in a paper titled Crowdedness, Centralized Employment, and Multifamily Home Construction, identifies several characteristics that account for a large share of the variation in multifamily construction across metropolitan areas during 2013-15. … Continue reading
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March 30, 2017
Thursday’s Advocacy & Think Tank Roundup
Could the post-Great Recession drop in housing demand have been driven in part by an increase in mortgage credit spreads across borrowers? In a new Joint Center working paper that uses proprietary data on the spread of mortgage rates across … Continue reading
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March 29, 2017
Wednesday’s Academic Roundup
This paper, titled Economic Policy and Systemic Risk: The Un-Constitutionality of Rent Control/Rent-Stabilization Statutes; Multiple Listing Systems; and the Licensing of ‘Real Estate Websites’, discusses how Multiple Listing Systems (MLS), Real Estate Website Laws (REWL), and Rent-Control and Rent-Stabilization statutes (RC-RS) … Continue reading
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March 28, 2017
Tuesday’s Regulatory & Legislative Roundup
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Friday proposed a rule change that would give mortgage lenders more flexibility in collecting information about the ethnicity and race of potential borrowers, potentially making it easier for lenders to comply with a key … Continue reading
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