Real Estate News & Insights
New ATTOM Tool Identifies True Owners Controlling Properties
“Property ownership has gotten more complex, and public records do not always tell the full story,” said ATTOM’s Todd Teta. Continue Reading New ATTOM Tool Identifies True Owners Controlling Properties
MISMO Releases AI Glossary for Mortgage Finance Industry
The glossary will be updated as new AI advancements emerge. Continue Reading MISMO Releases AI Glossary for Mortgage Finance Industry
Why China’s Real Estate Slowdown Isn’t Like Japan’s
Source: Bloomberg --- As China struggles with its most severe real-estate slowdown in years, some have been asking whether the end of Japan’s real-estate bubble in the early 1990s offers a guide. But such comparisons are less helpful than they might appear, according...
Real Estate demands outpace the supply
Source: KPCW --- Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, real estate prices in the Park City area have hit the stratosphere, while the number of homes for sale remains at record low levels. Park City Board of Realtors President Mark Jacobsen said there are no homes...
Woman Receives Life for Role in Killing of Real Estate Agent
Source: KROC --- A former probation officer has been sentenced to life in prison for her role in the kidnapping and killing of a Minneapolis real estate agent. A Hennepin County jury in September found 29-year-old Elsa Segura, of Fridley, guilty of aiding and abetting...
Financial Focus: Financial tips for new veterans
Source: The Duncan Banner --- On Veterans Day, we honor the men and women who have served in our armed forces. If you’ve recently separated or retired from the military, or you will be leaving soon, you can be proud of the service you’ve provided to your country. But...
Pillsbury Unveils Transitional Home for Military Family in Dallas-Fort Worth
Source: Valdosta Daily Times --- In partnership with national nonprofit, Operation Homefront, Pillsbury welcomed its inaugural military family into a recently constructed transitional home for veterans, ensuring the family can spend Thanksgiving in their new home....
The Real Estate Battle: Millennials v Boomers
Source: Local Houston and Texas News --- Those young couples beginning life’s journey and searching for that little starter home are finding a major obstacle in their way: Boomers not moving. Traditionally, at a certain age aging homeowners often downsize, looking...
‘I Will Teach You to Be Rich’ blogger calls buying a home a ‘terrible financial decision’
Source: USA Today --- Ramit Sethi is a personal finance expert best known for his blog, I Will Teach You to Be Rich. Recently, Sethi took to Twitter to explain why purchasing a home – although he likely will do so – is actually a terrible financial decision. This idea...
Equity erased: Real estate deals take away the homes and land of the elderly and poor
Source: Citizen Times --- Many were older or Black homeowners in distress. Some were vulnerable to a Reconstruction-era property law abused so often that it has been rewritten in other states, but not North Carolina. And most were left embittered or poorer by their...
How China’s US$8-trillion real estate debt could impact us all
Source: Jamaican Observer --- China has a culture of real estate investment. The real estate sector makes up 29 per cent of the country's gross domestic product (GDP) or approximately US$4.2 trillion. Every year the country begins constructing 15-million new homes —...
Today’s real estate market pins The Simpsons house at $450,000
Source: AV Club --- Earlier this year economists came to the sad, somehow not-at-all-shocking conclusion that The Simpsons’ depiction of an average, single-income suburban life populated by celebrity guest cameos and annual, non-canonical Halloween vignettes...
