It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "Gary Yard is a 56-year-old West Springfield homeowner facing foreclosure. When he and his wife took out a second mortgage on their three-family home in 2010, their interest rate jumped from 7.9%…
A report from DS News. "Delinquencies are at an all-time high— 'that's the headline,' Rick Shagra, SVP at RealtyTrac said but suggested that listeners consider some factors before panicking or view this like we would have viewed serious delinquencies a…
A report from Reuters on New York. "Clarence Hamer doesn’t expect to hang on to his house much longer. His downstairs tenant owes him nearly $50,000 in back rent on the four-bedroom duplex he owns in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Without those…
A report from Mortgage News Daily. "Black Knight says condos have seen a large increase in availability. This is especially apparent in some of those very cities, such as San Francisco, that homeowners are leaving in droves. While delinquencies spiked…
A report from Bisnow on Illinois. "High property taxes are a hot-button issue across the state, with many commercial owners already crying foul. 'When I used to give presentations on the state budget situation, I’d joke that we should make…
A report from Bisnow on Florida. "Ed Easton started his industrial real estate company, The Easton Group, in 1974. He now controls about 5M SF of space. Nearly 1,000 people per day move to Florida. 'Historically, each person needs 74…
A weekend topic starting with Bisnow New York. "Cushman & Wakefield Vice Chair Joanne Podell, a veteran retail broker in New York City, speaks about the future of luxury strips like Fifth Avenue. 'There are two kinds of landlords,' she…
It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "After a hefty price cut, Italian fashion scion Massimo Ferragamo has off-loaded his Manhattan apartment for $11 million, WWD has learned. Ferragamo found that his Manhattan duplex apartment had become surplus to…
A report from Denver 7 in Colorado. "A homeowner in Littleton says because he deferred his mortgage payments through the CARES Act forbearance program for those impacted by COVID-19. As soon as he was able to begin paying again, he…
A report from Arlington Now in Virginia. "This regularly-scheduled sponsored Q&A column is written by Eli Tucker, Arlington-based realtor. Question: Did the volume of homes listed for sale recover after a slow spring/summer? Answer: There has been a surge of…