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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Real Estate Finance
Develop your understanding of the relationship between mortgage holders and owners through a review of notes, trust deeds, and their provisions and foreclosure procedures.
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Mortgage Concepts: Trustee’s Sale: Sold to the Highest Bidder
This video explains the procedures followed for a trustee’s sale in California.
New mortgage premium structure signifies a transfer of wealth
The FHFA has altered their mortgage insurance premiums. Now, borrowers with lower credit scores and down payments will be paying less under the new structure than they did under the old.
The Federal Reserve’s impact on mortgage rates
Learn how the Fed is using their benchmark rate as a monetary policy tool to restrain levels of borrowing in 2022.
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.
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.
Mortgage Concepts: Steering homeowners to preferred counselors on HECMs
This Mortgage Concepts explainer video breaks down counseling requirements for consumers considering a Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM).
Loan production costs are drowning mortgage brokers
Just 32% of loan companies were able to remain profitable in 2022.
Errata & Updates
06/25: The 2025 rules for buyer representation and fee-splitting avoidance are currently being edited into this e-book.