A report from the New York Post. "Moving trucks were out in force on Manhattan’s Upper West Side on Saturday — leaving Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa practically tripping over them. 'The mass evacuation of Upper West Siders from NYC…
A report from Patterson Press on New Jersey. "Burned-out and abandoned, the Victorian house at the corner of Auburn and Fair streets symbolized Paterson’s drug scourge so much that three years ago someone sprayed-painted 'Crackadopia' across its side wall. Brian…
A report from the Wall Street Journal. "After the coronavirus pandemic shut many businesses this spring, the three major credit-ratings firms placed about 2,400 bonds tied to pools of corporate loans on review for possible downgrades. The potential wave has…
A weekend topic starting with two articles in the Los Angeles Times. "Four months into the pandemic, never has the city seemed so upside down. Parking attendants wave flags to the empty streets. Storefronts, boarded-up from break-ins, merge with stalled…
A report from the Star Advertiser in Hawaii. "Munro Murdock, Hawaii Legal Short-Term Rental Alliance (HILSTRA) president, said owners and operators across the isles are feeling the pain from delays in reopening Hawaii tourism through a pre-arrivals testing program. 'First…
A report from the International Business Times. "The U.S. mortgage industry has been thrown into turmoil as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic prompted millions of borrowers to fall behind on their payments. Holden Lewis, mortgage expert at NerdWallet, said…
It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "Mortgage delinquencies showed their sharpest rise in the history of the Mortgage Bankers Association’s delinquency survey. 'There is no way to sugarcoat a 32.9 percent drop in GDP during the second quarter,'…
A report from the Pioneer Press in Minnesota. "Taylor Swartwood bought a small apartment building off Rice Street a few years ago for $157,000. He’ll pay $4,500 in total property taxes (city, county, school district and special taxing districts) and…
A report from the Denverite in Colorado. "The median rent for an apartment dropped 1.4 percent to $1,454 between the first quarter of this year and the second, according to the University of Denver’s Daniels College of Business. The decrease…
A report from the Los Angeles Times in California. "In downtown Los Angeles, rent for a 566-square-foot one-bedroom at the Eighth and Grand luxury apartments would have set you back at least $2,286 at the end of January, according to…