Real Estate

Principal at Cardinal Industrial, an industrial investment firm with over $500 million of assets under management: www.mcgrathindustrial.com getty How did an asset class go from the ugly duckling of the investment world to the darling in such a short period of time? By now, almost all consumers are intimately familiar with online shopping. Online shopping or

Home recently sold, how to capture low interest rates getty Mortgage rate have been volatile this year due to COVID-19. Although mortgage rates rose today for the first time in 3 weeks, they still are considered low. Here’s how they moved this week. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 3.13% APR, an increase of nine basis

The relationship between landlord and tenant varies from person to person. In some cases, the relationships may form effortlessly, while in other cases, the two sides just can’t seem to find common ground and eventually have to move on. It takes considerable effort from both parties to create and maintain a good relationship. For the

This Missouri home has more than two standard bedrooms. It is adjacent to a nine-cell jail. Justin Radel Do you want to buy a house with a jail attached? Or view a home with a highly unusual ceiling? Or maybe you can appreciate the legendary Bigfoot making an appearance in your potential abode? Social media

Recent stories are documenting Covid’s negative impacts on New York, especially how the pandemic is accelerating and deepening racial and economic inequality.   But New York has weathered worse storms than Covid. Washington must provide budget help for New York and other cities. NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 12: A view of The Shops at Hudson

Aaron Marshall is CEO & Co-Founder of Keyrenter Property Management, the nation’s leading property management and real estate franchise. getty When starting a business, one of the biggest pressures we put on ourselves is to have this outstanding, never-before-seen concept or idea. Yet every professional businessman or woman will point to a certain person or company and

New York’s real estate market is in wait and see mode getty Here’s the latest news on New York City’s real estate market from brokers with “boots on the ground.” After more than three months in lockdown when New York’s brokers and agents were not allowed to show properties, the market is up and running again—kind

SoftBank Group chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son. (Photo by Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images) Getty Images This spring, SoftBank, the Japanese conglomerate helmed by Masayoshi Son, backtracked on an offer to buy up to $3 billion of WeWork shares, a deal that would have netted the coworking firm’s cofounder Adam Neumann nearly $1 billion. It seemed, at

America’s cities and their suburbs have experienced comparable market dynamics when it comes to the … [+] days homes spend on the market, the number of pending sales, the share of abodes selling above their asking price and the overall growth in home values. getty Since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, numerous headlines have

NEW YORK, NY – SEPTEMBER 19: Philanthropist Warren Buffett is joined onstage by 24 other … [+] philanthropist and influential business people featured on the Forbes list of 100 Greatest Business Minds during the Forbes Media Centennial Celebration at Pier 60 on September 19, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Daniel Zuchnik/WireImage) WireImage While

CEO, Americas at The Instant Group overseeing the company’s expansion throughout the Americas. Getty Months into the pandemic that has forced the ultimate work-from-home experiment, companies including Google, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, Amazon and Salesforce, just to name a few, have all reportedly extended their work-from-home options. Salesforce, for example, is allowing employees in all its 160

VC firm Fifth Wall seeks to help the real estate industry build scalable carbon-reducing solutions. Jeff Newton Studio LLC In our current model of capitalism, carbon emissions and environmental harm resulting from business operations are externalities that can be largely ignored by businesses and investors. But, as consumers, policymakers and society at large begin to

With China minting so many technology and healthcare billionaires of late, it’s easy to forget that the real estate industry is the main source of wealth for many of the country’s richest. China’s urbanization rate, an indicator of real estate demand, increased to more than 60% last year from only about a fifth in the

Thanks to a new fee coming Sept. 1, homeowners are going to pay a lot more to refinance their … [+] mortgages. getty If refinancing your mortgage was even slightly on your radar, you may want to act fast, because come September 1, it’s going to be a lot more expensive. That’s because mortgage purchasers

Getty Eden Health, a telemedicine company founded in 2015, raised $25 million in Series B financing, in part to expand its partnerships with commercial real estate firms through virtual and in-person health consultations. The funding round—which was led by Flare Capital Partners, with participation from Greycroft, Aspect Ventures, and other investors—places Eden Health’s valuation close

This Days Inn property in Branson, MO was converted into affordable housing. The Repvblik Housing is in high demand in most markets across the US, but supply is hard to come by. Unless, of course, there is a pandemic that completely changes the real estate game, leaving once very active properties now vacant. Developers and

With Congress unable to reach a compromise on a new round of support for Americans impacted by the pandemic and recession, President Trump signed memoranda last weekend that partially restore enhanced unemployment benefits, defer payroll taxes for most Americans, and extend a moratorium on federal student loan payments. The constitutionality of these measures is now

Inquiries to contractors for deck, patio and porch improvements nearly tripled this Spring over … [+] 2019. Photo Courtesy of Deckorators; deckorators.com // Wellness by Design (Tiller Press), (c) J. Gold It may seem counterintuitive that interest and activity in home projects is soaring when millions of Americans have lost their jobs, are waiting in

2020 has been a challenging year for everyone, but especially for those who found themselves sheltering in place in a too-tiny home, or stuck in a city that completely shut down due to COVID-19. In major cities, I’ve seen a huge uptick in people retreating to their more spacious suburban homes, which were usually reserved

Ben Harris is the President of Westview Land and Harris Investments, LLC. getty Economic downturns are typically not helpful for real estate values, and land is certainly not immune to the effects. However, the economic contraction we are currently experiencing is different. Demand for land is stronger than I have seen it in the 10 years that