China’s Leaders Try to Reinflate the Property Bubble – Foreign Policy
On the edges of Beijing, identikit housing projects stretch for miles on end, a partially complete Legoland concreting hundreds of acres of villages and farmland that once made up the capital’s outskirts. After decades of Maoist hostility to private property, restrictions on the purchase of private property were finally lifted in the early 1990s: It […]
What Are Real Estate Comps? – Forbes Advisor – Forbes
Editorial Note: We earn a commission from partner links on Forbes Advisor. Commissions do not affect our editors’ opinions or evaluations. Buying a home is an all-encompassing process. It’s like a part-time job that requires hours of research, work and money. The last thing you want to do is pay more than you need to […]
Jantzen Young’s Private Money Institute Reveals the Changing Face of Real Estate Investing – Yahoo Finance
SANFORD, FL / ACCESSWIRE / January 10, 2023 / Real Estate investing is sometimes seen as an elitist, or at least, inaccessible, sector, according to Private Money Institute’s Founder Jantzen Young. Young believes that, through the range of masterclasses, mentoring and workshops her Private Money Institute is rolling out, the real estate industry can be […]
Anywhere announces more layoffs, shutters iBuying – The Real Deal
Anywhere CEO Ryan Schneider (Realogy, Getty) Anywhere Real Estate has kicked off the new year with layoffs. The company did not say how many employees were laid off, but in an SEC filing Tuesday said its workforce has been reduced by roughly 11 percent since the end of June. The company also said it is […]
What Real Estate Investors Need to Know About the 2% Rule – Yahoo Finance
SmartAsset: What Is the 2% Rule in Real Estate? There are several metrics you can use to evaluate whether a rental property investment has potential, including the 2% rule. The 2% rule in real estate dictates that a property’s rental income should be at least 2% of the purchase price. Understanding this rule can make […]
Blefari Tops Real Estate’s Most Powerful and Influential List – Yahoo Finance
The 10th annual Swanepoel Power 200 (SP 200) analyzes and ranks 245 industry leaders. LADERA RANCH, Calif., Jan. 10, 2023 — The Swanepoel Power 200 (SP 200), the definitive ranking of the residential real estate brokerage industry’s executives and leaders, has named Gino Blefari, president and CEO of HomeServices of America, as the nation’s most […]
Real estate development in Philly likely to slow this year given interest rate uncertainty – The Philadelphia Inquirer
The announcement came a few days before Christmas, a punctuation mark on a year that began favorably for the city’s development industry but was ending on an uncertain note. A New York mega-developer that had decided to build in Philadelphia during the pandemic called time on a 360-unit building into which it had already sunk […]
How Three Black Women Hope to Change the Home Appraisal Industry – The New York Times
The home appraisal industry is overwhelmingly white, male and aging: the Bureau of Labor Statistics says that of the 75,000 appraisers in the United States, 97 percent are white, and other surveys show that nearly three-quarters are both male and above the age of 45. This lack of representation, Black real estate professionals say, is […]