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NAR Warns of Disruptions to NFIP if Government Shutdown Drags On
NAR noted that the shutdown has resulted in the halting of NFIP’s authority to issue new policies. Continue Reading NAR Warns of Disruptions to NFIP if Government Shutdown Drags On
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
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...
Mortgage and real estate news this week: The great Fed taper and Zillow says bye-bye to iBuying
Source: Bankrate --- Change is in the air in the real estate and mortgage industries, and it’s not just because of falling temperatures. From policy shifts at the Fed to advice for millennial homebuyers, here’s what you need to know. 1. The Fed prepares to taper It’s...
Green mortgages: could your loan help make Britain greener?
Source: The Guardian --- Homes account for more than a fifth of the UK’s total CO2 emissions, which may help explain why the government and others believe green mortgages could be a gamechanger for moving to a sustainable future. Although they have been around in one...
Discover Real Estate: The Business That Can Change Your Life
Source: The Costa Rica News --- If we take a look at history we can see that despite the critical stages that humanity has always gone through; it has managed to get ahead through the sale and commercialization of different spaces of land for housing, what could be...
The $300m flip flop: how real-estate site Zillow’s side hustle went badly wrong
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 of...
Manhattan Real Estate Update: The Market Is Fair…‘For Now’
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, faster,...
Another Chinese real estate developer is in serious trouble
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 in Hong...
Real estate investments: No one is immune to defaults
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...
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