December 21, 2016
Wednesday’s Academic Roundup
The Effects of Mortgage Credit Availability: Evidence from Minimum Credit Score, Laufer and Paciorek Can Google Trends Actually Improve Housing Market Forecasts, Liminios and You Panel Data Estimates of Age-Rent Profiles for Rental Housing, Gallin and Verbrugge How Home Equity … Continue reading
December 21, 2016 in Uncategorized | Permalink | No Comments
December 20, 2016
Tuesday’s Regulatory & Legislative Roundup
Brooklyn housing advocates can rest easy! A Bushwick developer has finally agreed to set aside 20% of the housing units as affordable housing. Investors are shifting their stock purchases to real estate to ensure they receive income from their stocks.
December 20, 2016 in Uncategorized | Permalink | No Comments
December 19, 2016
Monday’s Adjudication Roundup
A Boston cab mogul is in legal trouble again after escaping jail time and being sentence to probation for his prior behavior. However, a Boston real estate developer will not let him off the hook for the mogul abandoning their … Continue reading
December 19, 2016 in Uncategorized | Permalink | No Comments
December 16, 2016
Friday’s Government Reports Roundup
Yesterday the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) released its final “Duty to Serve” rule, which requires Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to support certain segments of the mortgage market that are traditionally underserved by private investors. U.S. homebuilders’ confidence soared … Continue reading
December 16, 2016 in Uncategorized | Permalink | No Comments
December 15, 2016
Thursday’s Advocacy & Think Tank Roundup
A report titled, Projections and Implications for Housing a Growing Population, discusses how by 2035, more than one in five people in the US will be aged 65 and older and one in three households will be headed by someone … Continue reading
December 15, 2016 in Uncategorized | Permalink | No Comments
December 14, 2016
Wednesday’s Academic Roundup
This paper, titled The Effects of the Fed’s Quantitative Easing Announcements on the US Mortgage Market: An Event-Study Analysis, uses regression based event-study analysis to examine the response of the 30-year mortgage rate to the Federal Reserve’s Quantitative Easing (QE) … Continue reading
December 14, 2016 in Uncategorized | Permalink | No Comments
December 13, 2016
Tuesday’s Regulatory & Legislative Roundup
According to an announcement from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the government is granting more than $132 million total to neighborhoods in Boston, Denver, St. Louis, Louisville, and Camden as part of HUD’s Choice Neighborhoods Initiative. Mark Lamster, … Continue reading
December 13, 2016 in Uncategorized | Permalink | No Comments
