Viewpoint: Court Case Likely Will Have a Ripple Effect

Reading Time: 3 minutesEfforts to privatize the GSEs are reaching a pivotal moment
Make Yourself Irreplaceable to Realtor Partners

Reading Time: 5 minutesCreate a connection that goes deeper than the business relationship
Play the Long Game When Choosing a Lender
Reading Time: 3 minutesGrowth-minded brokers should keep client retention in mind with any deal
Hedge Against Market Swings

Reading Time: 4 minutesHigh net worth borrowers prove a reliable clientele even during economic downturns
Those Who Prepared Are Now Thriving

Reading Time: 4 minutesMortgage companies with pre-pandemic tech investments have had fewer disruptions
Office-sector numbers reflect metro-area economies

Reading Time: 3 minutesAlthough the COVID-19 pandemic is well past two quarters in length, U.S. office-market statistics are just starting to be impacted. The national office-vacancy rate climbed to 17.4% in third-quarter 2020 as occupancy fell by 5.85 million square feet. This was the highest vacancy rate since 2011. The average asking rent, however, increased by 0.2% while […]
Brian Bailey, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Reading Time: 4 minutesBanks are tightening their purse strings
International Investments: Singapore

Reading Time: 2 minutesSovereign city-state Singapore has always had a reputation for outdoing its maritime Southeast Asian neighbors. Indeed, the highly developed island nation scores highly not only among Asian countries but across the world for quality of life, education, health care and homeownership. It’s no surprise then that Singaporean real estate investors are an active bunch. And […]
Residential Spotlight: Atlantic Region

Reading Time: 5 minutesEastern seaboard states sprout a diverse economy.
Flipped home sales decline but profits increase

Reading Time: 3 minutesAs the effects of the global pandemic continue to ripple across every aspect of the real estate market, the share of U.S. home sales involving fix-and-flip projects has declined. Surprisingly, however, profits and profit margins have increased, according to a second-quarter 2020 home-flipping report from Attom Data Solutions. From April through June of this year, […]