A report from the Wall Street Journal. "Mary Babinski, a senior loan officer with Motto Mortgage Champions in Trinity, Fla., recently wrote a 30-year loan for a retiree buying a home in New Port Richey. He had no problem qualifying,…
A report from Better Dwelling in Canada. "Canada’s recent real estate price boom is creating a lot of incentive for development. Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation data show housing under construction jumped in Q4 2019. The number of homes currently…
A report from the Wall Street Journal. "Builders are on track to finish more new apartments in 2020 than in any year since the 1980s, a new study shows, with developers across the U.S. chasing after the more affluent tenants.…
A report from the Dallas Morning News in Texas. "A lender that provided more than $388 million to finance one of Plano’s biggest real estate developments has filed to foreclose on the project. Beal Bank put up the debt for…
A report from the Australian Financial Review. "Dixon Advisory's ailing US property fund has told investors it is writing down the value of its assets by up to 30 per cent, blaming a weak New York real estate market, development…
A report from the San Francisco Chronicle in California. "The Bay Area just said goodbye to a decade when real estate prices soared to astronomical heights. The 2010s were marked by $1 million fixer-uppers and bidding wars, and many homeowners…
A weekend topic starting with Catalyst. "There’s an apparent contradiction in urban America’s real estate market. On one hand there’s a general housing shortage, namely of affordable workforce housing. But there are lots of luxury condos that get built and…
It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "According to an ATTOM Data Solutions report buying a home is more affordable than renting in 53% of the U.S. housing markets. 'The current market here in Bakersfield for renters is a…
A report from the Wall Street Journal. "In mid-November, bond investors got an unwelcome surprise from one of the main ratings firms in a hot corner of the bond market: About 25% of the bonds that it had rated were…
A report from Multi-Housing News. "'It’s a great time to be a quality sponsor,' Stephen Rosenberg, CEO of Greystone, told Multi-Housing News. 'Right now, the market is extremely frothy and awash with capital. While Greystone hasn’t loosened its underwriting standards…