What are Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) and why are they useful?
REIT investment: playing the real estate game from the sidelines
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Income Property Brokerage
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Bankruptcy’s tie to homeownership
Bankruptcy numbers were artificially low in 2020-2021. Prepare for today’s zombie businesses to fold with the 2023 recession.
Form-of-the-Week: Client Profile and LLC Subscription Agreement — Forms 350 and 373
A broker uses RPI Forms 350 and 373 when gathering information on and soliciting cash investors to form an LLC.
Property prices and cost of capital test buyer readiness; Monthly Statistical Update (May 2023)
Yield spread emboldens the recession factor; The jobs recovery is leveling out – no surprise; Interest rates for borrowing drive pricing
30 years of summer, followed by 30 years of winter
Mortgage rates are on their way up.
MIP, PMI, or neither?
Which is better for first-time homebuyers reliant on mortgage insurance: MIP or PMI?
The source of home price movement: buyer purchasing power
Find out what today’s buyer purchasing power means for tomorrow’s home prices in California.
Press Release: Q1 2023 Buyer Purchasing Power Index down 23% from a year earlier
A homebuyer with the same income is able to borrow 23% less purchase-assist mortgage money than a year ago due to interest rate hikes alone.
Home sales volume finds a new low, ARMs no longer an option to extend purchasing power; Monthly Statistical Update (April 2023)
Home sales volume in the basement; FRM rates to fall back in 2023 — but not yet; ARM rates crossover the FRM rate
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