A weekend topic starting with Bisnow New York. "New York City’s commercial property values are expected to fall substantially this year. A summary of the past year said that the real estate markets 'collapsed' after the coronavirus gripped the city,…
A report from Local News 10 in Florida. "Patricia Guerrero said she is working full time to pay the mortgage of a home that she is supposed to be renting. Instead, she said there are squatters with a fraudulent lease,…
A reader suggested this weekend topic. "Can we have a post dedicated to educating the HBB about alternative social media platforms, censorship, privacy protection, and the use of sites like archive dot is to deny revenue to corporate globalist websites?…
A report from the Pittsburgh Business Journal in Pennsylvania. "New York-based King Penguin Opportunity Fund has defaulted on its $16.4 million mortgage for City Centre Tower, the biggest of three buys the firm made in downtown Pittsburgh. Martin Perry, a…
A report from the Capital Times in Wisconsin. "'I do believe landlords are preparing and I expect a huge increase once the moratorium is lifted,' said Laura Nachazel, a court manager in the Dane County Clerk of Courts office. 'I…
A report from the New York Times. "Brian Kavanagh, a Democratic state senator who represents Lower Manhattan and part of Brooklyn, was the lead sponsor of the bill that bars landlords from evicting most tenants for 60 days in almost…
A report from the Wall Street Journal. "Existing-home sales fell 2.5% in November from October to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 6.69 million, the National Association of Realtors said. It was the first decline in six months. 'Without a…
A report from USA Today on Florida. "Susana Lay worked from dawn to dusk alongside her grandfather while he sold and repaired Singer sewing machines in New York City. Soon, Lay was able to use her savings to buy her…
A weekend topic starting with Bloomberg. "Property investors are about to discover just how much the global fallout from the coronavirus pandemic has spread from deserted and cast-off buildings to their bottom lines. In an estimated $10 trillion global pool…
A report from the Real Deal. "Big money will be deployed into cash-deprived real estate funds. 'We are seeing some investors that are pretty distressed, but if we compare it to previous crises it doesn’t seem to be as widespread,'…