Source: The Guardian — Online shopping can be dangerous, as the US property website Zillow has belatedly come to realize. While many of us wasted countless hours during the pandemic clicking through real estate listings on Zillow and daydreaming about the sort...
Source: West Side Rag — It’s a seesaw and both parties, buyer and seller, are airborne…suspended in equilibrium, for now…but as always, the momentum will eventually lean in favor of the heavy weight, the seller. Buyers have always had to be welterweights,...
Source: CNN — Another Chinese real estate company appears to be at risk of default, escalating fears of further problems in the country’s embattled property sector. Shares of Kaisa Group, a Shenzhen-based developer, were suspended from trading on Friday...
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune — Defaults are always a possibility for anyone lending in real estate, whether they are acting as an individual private lender or investing in “crowdfunded” real estate development. How the default situation is handled can be...
Source: Green Entrepreneur — What to do with that mortgage? Many soon-to-be retirees wonder whether they should pay it off, but what about current retirees? Here’s how you can make that determination. A common question: Should you pay off your mortgage...
Source: The Source Weekly — All too often there is confusion on how real estate brokers get paid and who pays them. Many buyers and sellers know that real estate is a commission-based profession, yet all too often there is confusion about how and how much real...
Hits and Misses for the Real Estate Week of Aug. 3-7
