Published by Forbes.com | May 15, 2024 Housing affordability issues continue to make homeownership more of a dream than a reality for many people. Housing affordability issues continue to make homeownership more of a dream than a reality for many people. But those who can’t afford to buy a house are finding that renting is …
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Published by REALTOR.com | May 13, 2024 With mortgage rates up and home prices out of reach for many first-time buyers, the affordability crisis is increasingly in the spotlight as campaign season heats up. In most presidential election years, home prices aren’t a key issue for voters or a major campaign talking point. Consider it …
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Published by REALTOR.com | May 9, 2024 Proposed congressional legislation to ban Wall Street hedge funds from snapping up single-family homes would likely have little impact on home prices, one economist has argued. “With their small national market share, claims that large institutions inflate house prices seem exaggerated,” wrote Capital Economics Property Economist Thomas Ryan in a …
Crackdown on Hedge Fund Homebuyers Won’t Lower Housing Prices, Economist Argues Read More »
Published by Forbes.com | April 30, 2024 Several types of real estate scams are on the rise and even the savviest homeowners should be on alert. Scams are on the rise, and this includes real estate scams. According to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), business email compromise (BEC) schemes frequently target the real estate sector. …
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Published by REALTOR.com | May 4, 2024 Since his guilty plea, Cox says he’s reformed and has turned his unusual talents to fighting fraud. In the late ’90s, Matthew Cox was 29 and starting a new job as a mortgage broker in Tampa, FL, when he committed his first act of mortgage fraud by erasing a borrower’s late payment …
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Published by FOX Business | May 3, 2023 IRS also plans to nearly triple audit rates on large corporations with assets over $250M The IRS is planning to ramp up audit rates of wealthy Americans and large corporations as part of its sweeping effort to crack down on tax cheats. The tax-collecting agency aims to …
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Published by FOX Business | April 29, 2024 Lawmakers say investors that scooped up hundreds of thousands of houses to rent out are driving up home prices Wall Street went on a home-buying spree. Now, more lawmakers want to stop it from ever happening again. Democrats in the U.S. Senate and House have sponsored legislation …
Wall Street Has Spent Billions Buying Homes. A Crackdown is Looming. Read More »
Published by FOX Business | April 24, 2024 Rising home insurance rates are crushing U.S. families The astronomic rise in mortgage rates and spike in home prices over the past year have pushed a key tenet of the American dream out of reach for millions of families. Now, there is another obstacle to homeownership: higher …
Surge in Home Insurance Costs Adding More Inflation Pressure on Americans Read More »
Published by National Association of Realtors | April 18, 2024 To say that ransomware is a growing cyber threat is an understatement. Ransomware—cyberattacks in which cybercriminals use malicious software to seize control of computers and network systems, encrypt data, and then demand payment to release control of the data and computer systems—is driven by low …
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Published by FOX Business | April 18, 2024 The commercial real estate market is starting to buckle under the weight of higher interest rates and remote work. There were 625 commercial real estate foreclosures in March, up 6% from February and 117% from the same time last year, according to a new report published by …
Commercial Real Estate Foreclosures Jumped 117% in March Read More »
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