Thursday, March 28, 2024

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Articles with a National focus

How many will work remotely post-pandemic?

For all we know about our current housing market, the sources of demand, the supply headwinds and the changing financing landscape, one key variable has been unclear to us since the pandemic began: just...

Study: Impact of online reputation

RealPage, a software and data analytics company, in conjunction with J Turner Research, an online reputation management firm, announced the results of a nearly three-year study that reveals the impact of online reputation on...

Next big play

Equity Group Investments’ Sam Zell, Brookfield Asset Management’s Bruce Flatt, and Blackstone Group’s Stephen Schwarzman are some of the world’s top real estate investors. They’ve bought and sold billions of dollars of properties over...

The hidden tax moves in on residents

Proponents of big government spending have desperately argued that mounting price inflation is just temporary. But multiple alarming inflation metrics came out for April and May, and examples of rising prices are clear to...

Blackstone buys SFR portfolio

Wall Street asset management giant Blackstone Group announced it is buying a firm with a portfolio of 17,000 single-family rental homes in a $6 billion deal that bets big on the red-hot U.S. housing...

Managing risk

Recent news around the struggles facing multifamily real estate owners centers on rent moratoriums, which were extended. These are proving to be a significant risk to the industry even with rental assistance. However, there’s another...

Rents rise with demand

Federal government stimulus payments and expanding payrolls are boosting savings, enabling building managers to lift rent prices on apartments and houses nationwide. A record-low inventory of homes for sale also leaves more people renting. Median...

The hunt for apartment money

Real estate investing can be a long-view thing for many investors, whether putting money directly into a project or property or in the stock market through, for example, real estate investment trusts (REITs). With that...

What CRE looks like after a pandemic

The light at the end of the tunnel may be in sight for the U.S. economy. As JPMorgan Chase Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon detailed in his recent letter to shareholders, the economy could be...

Impact investing in renters

Bobby Turner, founder and CEO of Turner Impact Capital and Wharton grad, wants to boost pride in rentership. He believes that building neighborhoods that offer a sense of community pride for renters is an...

Urban recovery predicted to take longer this time

While it is clear that the multifamily sector has generally bounced back from the pandemic, a new report from Fitch Ratings indicates that a full recovery in urban areas to 2019 levels could take...

Property rights versus labor unions in the Supreme Court

As the Supreme Court’s recent Obamacare case illustrates, the justices no longer enforce most of the Constitution’s limits on the federal government. But a new property rights decision demonstrates how they are super-enforcing the...
state of the nation's housing

JCHS releases The State of the Nation’s Housing report

The Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University has released the 2021 edition of its report chronicling the issues surrounding housing in the United States. The report brings together data from a wide...

CDC extends eviction moratorium

Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the Director of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), has extended the agency’s eviction moratorium until July 31, 2021. The agency says that this extension is intended to be the last. The...
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RCLCO talks single family rentals

RCLCO discussed single family rentals (SFR) and build for rental (BFR) properties in conjunction with their monthly round-up webinar. The presentation was a good introduction to the reasons this market has been drawing a...
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