2020’s shifting property demands make apartment conversions attractive options for landlords of vacant commercial space.
Apartment conversions add to rental inventory
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Commercial, multi-family mortgage originations set to decline by one-third in 2020
While experiencing significant losses in 2020, the commercial and multi-family mortgage industry escaped the worst of experts’ original predictions.
2020’s struggling jobs market foreshadows declining home prices in 2021; Monthly Statistical Update (December 2020)
A second jobs recovery is needed to sustain the housing market; Californians drop out of the labor force; California home prices jump with low turnover and lower interest rates
The interplay between home sales, GDP and employment
A look into three economic factors that shape the current real estate market.
Tax Benefits of Ownership: tax aspects advice
The following excerpt is from the forthcoming edition of Tax Benefits of Ownership which gives an overview on a transaction’s tax aspects.
Low interest rates are here to stay, spurring refinancing; Monthly Statistical Update (November 2020)
Interest rates hit historic lows for mortgages; Plummeting interest rates send refinances soaring; The yield spread forecasts the long recovery ahead
Tax Benefits of Ownership: vacation home sales
This excerpt from the forthcoming edition of Tax Benefits of Ownership gives an overview on vacation home sales.
Industrial is the bright spot for SoCal commercial real estate
Read the details on how industrial, office and retail are faring in SoCal’s major markets during this 2020 recession.
Tax Benefits of Ownership: The §1031 reinvestment plan
This excerpt from the forthcoming edition of Tax Benefits of Ownership gives a brief overview of the fundamentals of Internal Revenue Code §1031 reinvestment plans.
Errata & Updates
- Effective January 1st, 2021, California homeowners qualify for a net equity homestead protection of up to $300,000 or the median sale price for a single family residence (SFR) in the homeowner’s county in the calendar year prior to the year in which they claim the exemption, not to exceed $600,000 (adjusted annually for inflation). [CCP §704.730] For more on this topic, see Form-of-the-Week: Homestead exemption, an asset preservation declaration – Form 465