Real Estate News & Insights
Gary Mayo Named President of Harmony Homes
Mayo comes to Harmony Homes after 27 years as group president at Toll Brothers. Continue Reading Gary Mayo Named President of Harmony Homes
Trump to Push Builders to Increase Home Construction
“I’m asking Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to get Big Homebuilders going,” said Trump. Continue Reading Trump to Push Builders to Increase Home Construction
Real estate agents enroll in self-defense after homicide
Source: WFLX --- After a Broward County real estate agent was ambushed and fatally shot last week, others in the same career field are on high alert. At a brokerage in Palm Beach Gardens, real estate agents are learning how to fight back against a possible attacker....
One year in the real estate market
Source: Spectrum News 1 --- LOS ANGELES — Spectrum News first introduced Meah Burstein, 26, and Lenard Gorokhov, 28, in July. The couple, who were newly engaged were living in Burstein’s parents’ guest house and had decided to forgo a big wedding in order to save up...
2022 Predictions: Real Estate Bubbles And More SPACs?
Source: Forbes --- At long last, 2021 is drawing to a close, and the new year is right around the corner. This past year brought a return to stadiums for college football and a new era of Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) deals, the delta and omicron variants, surging...
How Maine’s 2021 population spike impacted the state’s real estate
Source: WGME --- Since the pandemic started, Maine's population has jumped thousands with more than 16,000 people in 2020 and an additional 10,000 people in 2021, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. "Maine is on the map," Aaron Bolster, the 2021 president of the...
Real estate shock or a big nothing? Experts debate what rising mortgage rates will mean for the 2022 housing market
Source: Fortune --- Federal Reserve officials were confident through the summer that spiking prices would reverse as the economy worked through supply and demand shocks caused by the pandemic. But that "transitory" narrative has been all but abandoned this month...
From real estate to inflation, here’s what to expect from the economy in 2022
Source: NBC News --- After a second consecutive year in which the word “unprecedented” did more than its fair share of narrative heavy lifting, economists are looking ahead to 2022 with a sense of wariness: Sharply escalating prices and the uncertain severity of the...
They Are Making More (Digital) Land — Should You Invest?
Source: Forbes --- As Will Rogers was known to have said: "Do not wait to buy real estate. Buy real estate and wait." It has proven time and again to be true for some and, well, not so much so for others. First of all, the land was not created equal. Some have an...
Wall Street Is Muscling in on the Real Estate Market
Source: The Motley Fool --- One of the best-performing asset classes this year is residential real estate. According to most real estate indices like the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) or Case-Shiller, home price appreciation has risen by anywhere between 18.5%...
The housing market was on a wild ride this year. Here’s what to expect in 2022
Source: KSL.com --- NEW YORK — The U.S. housing market has had a white-hot year. Home sales are on track to reach the highest level in 15 years, with an estimated 6 million homes sold in 2021. But whether you benefited from this surge depended a lot on if you...
Hope for affordable housing? Single room occupancy units touted as model solution
Source: Norman Transcript --- When it comes to homelessness and affordable housing, a nonprofit has suggested Norman look to single room units modeled in Houston — an approach at least one organization has successfully implemented. U.S. Census data shows Houston is...
