getty As U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell readies to unveil today the Senate proposal for the next coronavirus aid package, assembled together with the White House, the renewal of key policies credited with keeping renters and homeowners afloat during the pandemic remains uncertain. Many discussions on Capitol Hill have focused on the merits of
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Jeffrey Epstein pictured in 2004. RICK FRIEDMAN/CORBIS VIA GETTY IMAGES Two of the homes in the real estate portfolio of deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein have come to market this week, as first reported by the Wall Street Journal. The first is a seven-floor, $88 million mansion measuring 28,000 square feet on New York’s East 71st
Applications for mortgages continue to increase Getty Usually this is the time of year when we start to see homebuying slow down for the peak summer months, but not this year. Not even close. This past week the applications for purchasing a home were 19.1% higher than they were a year ago, according to the
What are NYC buyers likely to buy, and how much will they want to pay for it? What neighborhoods and … [+] property types are hot? getty What are New York City buyers looking for? What are they likely to buy, and how much will they want to pay for it? What neighborhoods and property
Build Me Up premiers on HGTV on July 22nd at 9:00 pm. HGTV Build Me Up on HGTV is the home renovation show the world needs right now. Featuring interior designer Orlando Soria of Unspouse My House and Secrets From A Stylist, every episode shares the story and home renovation of someone going through a major life transition. Soria
COVID-19 is making people take a hard look at their investment strategies, estate planning, insurance and their real estate. Market volatility has given rise to “experts” who are coming out of the woodwork with spam emails and ads that offer assistance with stocks or investment opportunities in hard assets like gold coins. Bad decisions are
Property technology like that offered by Logical Buildings’ SmartKit AI, is helping ease some of the … [+] pressures being faced by multifamily building property managers during the pandemic era. logical Buildings For generations in American big cities, folks lived a lot of their typical workday out of the home. Average days might find an
null Getty With Covid-19 hitting large cities the hardest, people have started looking to the suburbs. Headlines like “Coronavirus Escape: To the Suburbs” in the New York Times, “Coronavirus: Americans flee cities for the suburbs” in USA Today, “Will the Coronavirus Make the Suburbs Popular Again?” in Architectural Digest suggest an impending mass exodus to suburbia. And according
Finding great REITs can be a daunting task, especially during a pandemic like the one we’re living in right now. Lost in the uncertainty, few investors recognize that now is actually the time to act. It’s time to take advantage of mispricing opportunities in order to build a portfolio of “everlasting gobstopper” income. In order
Mortgage rates written on a model of house. Getty The threshold many thought could never be crossed, has been crossed. The average interest rate for a 30-year mortgage dropped below 3%, as Freddie Mac reported yesterday, settling in at 2.98% for the week that ended July 16th. For a 15 year loan the average rate