The number of apartment dwellers nationwide is nearing a record, as 95 percent of units are now occupied, according to rental data from RealPage, a real estate analytics firm. “Solid job formation, continued limited loss of renters to home purchase, and widespread availability of appealing new apartments” are continuing to boost rental demand, says RealPage …
by Michael Taylor I’m a big fan of niche financial markets as well as learning about how NOT to invest. This leads me this week to the “life settlements” industry, and a subset of that business known as “viaticals.” Living owners of life insurance policies sometimes seek to sell their policies on the secondary market …
As home prices rise, fewer homeowners are underwater, or owing more on their mortgage than their home is currently worth. In the first quarter of 2017, 350,000 borrowers regained equity, which dropped the total number of underwater owners to 1.8 million, according to the latest Mortgage Monitor Report from Black Knight Financial Services, a real …
Sifting through the Internet to find the answer to a specific question can be a daunting task. This article compiles some of the most useful online tax resources. READ MORE: http://www.cpajournal.com/2017/07/12/tax-resources-internet/
Living close to good transport links can be a major selling point for a house, but one property developer seems to have taken things a bit too far. Amused locals have been crying tears of laughter after spotting an embarrassing gaffe outside a local new-build. It looks nice enough from the outside – there’s just …
The real estate industry has been bombarded with cyber crime over the past few years. The risks are escalating as hackers penetrate property transactions, swiping people’s life savings from under the radar. These funds are often never recovered. Real estate cyber theft happens when home buyers receive what seems like a perfectly normal e-mail from …
On July 1, about half of tax liens and almost all civil judgments — both big negatives — were expunged from consumer credit files. The big three credit bureaus — Experian, Equifax and TransUnion — no longer report a tax lien or civil judgment on a consumer’s credit report unless it includes the person’s name, …
As of July 1 credit scores became much less useful. Read More »
SmartAsset, a personal finance technology company, has analyzed its second annual round of undervalued cities in the U.S. Each city had a projected price per square foot based on livability metrics such as unemployment rate, crime, high school graduation rates, number of entertainment and dining establishments, and walkability. SmartAsset then compared that number to the actual …
It’s been around for a while, but few people know about it, thanks to the silence of the drive-by media. If Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA) wasn’t a super-liberal and instead was a conservative, the media would have been all over this story. In July 2011, the US Postal Service entered into an exclusive contract with …
Sen. Feinstein’s Husband’s $19 BILLION Real Estate Deal Read More »
According to House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling, the biggest effect of the CHOICE act will be to strip a great deal of power from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Here’s a primer on the CHOICE Act: https://financialservices.house.gov/choice/
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