Twelve percent of homes for sale had a price drop during the four weeks ending April 3, up from 9% a year earlier and the highest share since early December. The rate of sellers dropping their prices ...
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In a world of growing uncertainty, there’s one thing that seems dependable, at least in commercial real estate: the need for housing keeps rising. First quarter data from RealPage shows historic...
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Commercial real estate professionals got worried in 2021 when the Biden administration floated its proposals to cut big tax reduction strategies, including 1031 like-exchanges. Congress didn’t m...
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You might have taken it for an April Fool’s joke, except no such chance as the Biden administration is serious. Like last year, it wants to end or severely restrict a number of tax strategies po...
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A recent survey of housing experts by Zillow reports that over 60% of housing experts believe rent control does more harm than good. 30% said rent control may be useful in a crisis as a last resort, b...
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With both inflation and interest rates rising, following the first Federal Reserve rate hike in three years, many people have no living memory of what can happen—for example, the double-digit ra...
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In a somewhat odd trend, rising mortgage rates are moving in tandem with increasing housing prices in many markets, leaving some housing analysts to explain this non-customary situation. Typically, r...
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Housing prices are “increasingly out of step with fundamentals,” with evidence pointing to abnormalities experts at the Denver Fed haven’t observed since the boom of the early 2000s....
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The median price for a home hit a record high in the four week period to March 20, rising 17% year-over-year to $379,230 and a blistering 6% from the previous four week reporting period, according dat...
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The Freddie Mac Multifamily Apartment Investment Market Index (AIMI) fell by 4.8% in the fourth quarter of 2021, with the index down 2.4% year over year. Record multifamily price appreciation, which s...
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