A Phil Hall Op-Ed: Last week, the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) number-crunched data from the American Community Survey and came up with a remarkable result: Roughly half of the nation’s housing stock was built in the 1980s and earlier, with slightly...
A Phil Hall Op-Ed: On Friday late afternoon, the Trump administration abruptly dumped a pair of executive orders online with the headings “Promoting Access to Mortgage Credit” and “Removing Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Home Construction.” Why the White House...
A Phil Hall Op-Ed: For too long, the question of increasing affordable homeownership opportunities has been ignored by government leaders. Lately, however, it seems that everyone has an idea on how this elusive goal can be obtained. But all the latest plans being...
A Phil Hall Op-Ed: I live in Connecticut, and I freely admit that I am envious of people who live in other states where the elected officials are making efforts to either reduce or eliminate property taxes. Whether or not those efforts generate serious results is...
A Phil Hall Op-Ed: There appears to be a malignant trend among the more extreme elements of today’s political “protesters” – they believe they have the inalienable right to disrupt and destroy the commercial property of anyone they don’t like. This strategy gained...
A Phil Hall Op-Ed: In putting together a list of predictions for what the real estate industry might experience during 2026, I am reminded of the wonderfully warped psychic Criswell, who gained fame and fortune by making bold predictions including claims that an...
Hits and Misses for the Real Estate Week of June 15-19
