null Getty According to a survey released Monday, chief financial officers are targeting real estate expenses for further cost cuts heading into the second half of the year in the latest indication that the expansion of remote work is here to stay. According to survey respondents, real estate costs will be among the leading areas
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African american female real estate agent in kitchen showing gay couple around new house Getty For the most part, the coronavirus pandemic has radically changed how the real estate industry functions. With that in mind, even as states are beginning to slowly reopen, potential buyers should expect a slightly different house hunting experience than they
Photo: Getty Lately, everyone has been asking the same question: Where is the housing market going? I decided to create my own index to help us think about the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on real estate in a new manner. These are the criteria for my post-pandemic housing index. I assigned each criterion a
Actress Michelle Williams purchased this Brooklyn home in 2015. Lisa Chamoff As the COVID-19 pandemic brought New York City to a near standstill three months ago, my world, like that of many of my neighbors in Brooklyn, shrank to the several walls of my apartment and about as many blocks. On the days when the
Photo: Getty As real estate professionals, our mission is to help people reach their homeownership goals. Our entire existence is consumed with thinking about how to help more people get their keys. We lie awake in bed thinking of ideas for doing this at a bigger scale. After a decade in the industry, I have
Photo: Getty There’s a hidden secret in real estate: Single-family houses are evaluated based on market comparables (“comps”), while the real power of real estate lies in the profitability of commercial residential properties and knowing how to force equity. One of the largest purchases in most Americans’ lives is their residence. Be sure your largest
Marina Pointe is among the new highly walkable communities along waterfronts in Tampa, Fla. BTI Partners Back in the 1970s, between years of grad school, I rode the rails around the country on an Amtrak railpass. When the pass and my cash expired, I found myself in Tampa. I got a room at the fleabag
Getty It began with a form letter that a large company sent to all its landlords. In that letter, the company said the coronavirus closures had decimated its revenues, so the company asked the landlord to defer all rent for April through July 2020, a total of four months, with repayment to start at some
Where is everybody? Hundreds are leaving the city per day. The trend will likely accelerate … [+] post-pandemic. High taxes, high housing costs, and overcrowded life makes for a nicer place to visit, but maybe not the ideal place to live. (Photo by Scott Heins/Getty Images) Getty Images Armando Codina is an unhappy New Yorker.
Pacifica rises above Auckland, New Zealand Stab Studio Pacifica, the 584-foot tall residential tower rising in the heart of Auckland’s central business district, is slated to be completed in August of this year. Designed by Jaimin Atkins of Plus Architecture, the $300 million building is a striking new feature on the skyline of New Zealand’s