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A Hire Standard
Source: Scotsman Guide--- Over the past several years, the mortgage industry has been increasingly focused on creating a diverse, inclusive and welcoming place of employment for all people, regardless of gender, age, religion, race, ethnicity, cultural background or...
What You Need to Know Before Accepting — or Rejecting — an Offer
Source: House Logic --- The day will come — and it will be a wonderful, joyous, do-a-happy-dance day — when you receive an offer, or multiple offers, for your home. And on that day, you’re going to face a question you may not have previously considered: How do you...
Long-distance real estate investment in residential properties a hotbed in US South and Midwest
Source: Fox Business --- The rising cost of living and long-term price increases of residential properties in U.S. coastal markets is pushing out-of-state real estate investors into America’s southern and Rust Belt cities. Metropolitan areas including San...
US Housing Supply Continues to Lag Household Formations; Multifamily Construction Offers Alternatives
Source: Realtor.com --- Highlights: US housing markets continue to struggle with a sizable shortage of new homes, a result of more than a decade of under-building relative to population growth. In 2022, the U.S. saw 2.06 million household formations, resulting in 15.6...
Austin Housing Market Forecast
Source: US News --- Given the enormous popularity of the greater Austin, Texas, area for online searches, newcomers and employment growth, it may act as a reasonable bellwether for the state of the U.S. housing market. This will certainly be tested in the spring and...
US housing prices decline for 6th straight month
Source: S&P Global Market Intelligence --- Home prices edged slightly lower in the U.S. in December 2022, marking the sixth consecutive month of falling housing prices as the challenging macroeconomic environment reduced buyer appetite. The S&P CoreLogic...
The 1031 Exchange Tax Deduction That Home Sellers and Real Estate Investors Have Been Using for Decades is at Risk of Being Sunset
In the president's budget plan for 2024, Biden is calling for an end to what the IRS calls a like-kind exchange, or a 1031 exchange, as it is commonly known among real estate professionals. The strategy allows sellers to postpone paying taxes on any capital gains — or...
The US housing market is in recession – and the pandemic has created a unique economic headache, elite strategist Liz Ann Sonders says
Source: Insider --- Experts are struggling to explain the US economy's stubbornly high inflation and resilient job gains during a period of surging interest rates. Liz Ann Sonders may have the answer. Charles Schwab's chief investment strategist has suggested the...
The US housing market is short 6.5 million homes
Source: CNN Business --- Washington, DCCNN — The United States is not building enough homes to account for the number of people setting up their own households. As a result, there is a sizable shortage of new homes after more than a decade of under-building relative...
1 Real Estate Stock to Avoid Like the Plague (and 2 to Buy Instead)
Source: The Motley Fool --- Don't fall for the company's low share price. Industrial Logistics Properties Trust (ILPT -4.38%) has gotten mauled over the past year. Shares of the industrial real estate investment trust (REIT) have plummeted a staggering 83%. They could...
How To Set Up LLCs For Real Estate Investing
Source: Forbes --- A few blog posts ago, I explained, in shorthand, a formula I use for setting up LLCs in real estate investing. It’s not a universal formula, but it’s a very robust structure that can help most real estate investors create anonymity for their...
FOX 13 Investigates: Utah says a real estate professional borrowed against a home he didn’t own
Source: Fox 13 News --- MORGAN, Utah — Shelly and Reed McDermott have spent 20 years in their home here, raising their family along the way. “We planned to use this as the retirement home to sell and go into retirement,” Shelly McDermott said. In late November, they...
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