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Report: 1 in 3 Homes Bought in All-Cash Sales During First Half of 2025
The top five states for all-cash sales were Mississippi (49.6%), Montana (46.0%), Idaho (45.0%), Hawaii (44.9%), and Maine (44.4%). Continue Reading Report: 1 in 3 Homes Bought in All-Cash Sales During First Half of 2025
California’s State-Run Property Insurance Program Proposes 36% Rate Hike
If approved, the new rates would take at customers’ next renewal date after April 1, 2026. Continue Reading California’s State-Run Property Insurance Program Proposes 36% Rate Hike
Cannabis Real Estate Lenders Charting Paths Into New Legal Territory
Source: Commercial Observer --- Len Tannenbaum, CEO of cannabis commercial real estate lender AFC Gamma, has found the pulse of the cannabis sector. He’s only been lending in the space officially for about a year, but the firm has already seen about $7 billion in...
Seven Ways Technology Is Disrupting Real Estate
Source: Forbes --- Buying a home nowadays looks very different than how previous generations used to buy their houses. Most people probably start their search online and get pre-approved online. They might even view the home and close online. The Covid-19 pandemic has...
Why Barndominiums Are Still the Best Real Estate Trend
Source: Southern Living --- Living in your barn has been a practical choice for farmers for centuries. After all, barns tend to be giant open spaces with more than enough room for a small apartment for the busy folks working on the farm. In recent years, though,...
Which Real Estate Stock Will Win the iBuying Wars?
Source: Fool --- iBuying, or the practice of a company directly purchasing homes from sellers and then selling them to buyers themselves, is widely thought of as a massive market opportunity. But which real estate company will be the biggest winner? Will it be an...
Real Estate newsletter: Hollywood eyes a comeback
Source: LA Times --- Welcome back to the Real Estate newsletter, which this week documents a Southern California market where a half-finished mansion fetched a fortune and a university set a record selling its president’s stately home. The half-finished mansion...
George Kormas: “There will never be a better time to invest in the Greek real estate market”
Source: Washington Times --- Piraeus Real Estate is the subsidiary of the Piraeus Bank Group, responsible for the complete design and implementation of the strategy and policies of the Group’s Real Estate division, while heading other subsidiary companies of the Group...
Future Returns: Investing in the Undersupplied U.S. Housing Market
Source: Barrons --- Homebuilding in the U.S. needs to seriously catch up. Following the Great Recession, fewer single-family homes were built in the 2010s than any other decade in the last 60 years, leaving a gap of 5.5 million units, according to the National...
Millennials’ Real Estate FOMO Goes Haywire
Source: Bloomberg --- Here’s a word to add to your investing vocabulary: Dungers. The term for dilapidated, crumbling houses comes from New Zealand, which is in the grip of a striking property boom. The country topped Bloomberg Economics’ risk radar in June for being...
Older Workers in U.S. Moving Less While Working Longer in Life
Source: The World Property Journal --- According to a new report released by the Mortgage Bankers Association's Research Institute for Housing America (RIHA), older college-educated homeowners are two times more likely to leave the workforce after a job loss than home...
Biden’s new dilemma: How to slash housing costs for low-income borrowers
Source: Politico --- President Joe Biden’s move to fire the top U.S. mortgage regulator is triggering calls from fellow Democrats to use the agency to expand access to loans for lower-income people, who have struggled to buy homes since the financial crisis. That’s...
