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1.2KNRF: More Than Half Of Retailers Received Rent Relief Amid COVID-19
Retail sales have seen very modest year-over-year gains since June, but many brick-and-mortar operations continue to suffer amid the pandemic. PJ SOLOMON,...
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2.2KBanks Raise Real Estate Lending Red Flags As Commercial Properties Sit Vacant
The nation’s banks are anxious about getting loans repaid that are secured against empty office buildings, hotels and malls. Disclosure of these...
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2.8KHow Online Platforms Are Closing The Affordable-Housing Gap
The pandemic has shifted attention to every dollar we spend, focusing on necessities, such as shelter and food. As far as housing...
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2.6KPinterest Pays $89.5M To Cancel New Office Lease As Employees Work At Home
Pinterest is canceling its upcoming lease to move into a San Francisco office that it doesn't need because its workers will be...
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5.6KBlend CEO: Why Mortgage Lending Needs More Data, Not More Documents
The great digital shift might upend the way we get mortgages, transforming a $2.1 trillion industry weighed down by time-consuming processes to...
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2.2KUK Banks Retool Branch Locations For Office Space Use
As the U.K.’s banks reconfigure their branches to accommodate a COVID-19 world, some are converting portions of the underused real estate into...
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1.4KNAR: Housing Market Activity Continues To Pick Up
Housing market activity as measured by the signing of sales contracts rose for the third consecutive month, the National Association of Realtors...
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1.8KReal Estate Mogul Sam Zell Foresees More Retail Pain
Real estate mogul Sam Zell, who learned the hard way about investing in troubled industries after buying and temporarily owning the Chicago...
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2.2KUS Home Sales Up 9 Pct Nationwide Over Last July
The nation’s residential real estate sector took a giant step forward in July as year-over-year sales increased by nearly 9 percent, according...
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3.0KTill CEO: How Flexible Rent Payments Helps Landlords – And Tenants – Avoid Evictions
Amid the lingering economic aftershocks of the pandemic looms a housing crisis — if millions of people are unable to pay the...
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2.7KHomeLight CEO On Residential Real Estate’s Contingency-Free Future
The U.S. real estate market has spent the summer booming despite an economy hit hard by the pandemic. HomeLight CEO Drew Uher...
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2.1KNew Home Construction Surges As Suburbs Gain In Popularity
Home construction surged in July as real estate emerges as a bright spot in a U.S. economy struggling to rebound in the...
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3.1KThe Own-To-Rent Impact On Residential Real Estate Sales
When the U.S. economy crashed in 2008 and kicked off the Great Recession, the U.S. housing market more or less fell into...
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2.0KHomeLight Acquires Disclosures.io, Launches Listing Management Services
HomeLight, a real estate technology platform, announced Tuesday (Aug. 18) that it has acquired Disclosures.io, a listings management software provider. Terms of...
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4.5KHow Work From Home Has Changed The Future Of Commercial Real Estate
We’ll all work from home. Forever. Or maybe temporarily. Sanjay Rishi, America’s CEO, Corporate Solutions, at JLL, told Karen Webster in an...
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1.4KSurvey: Homebuilders Upbeat On Single-Family Homes
Homebuilders are bullish on the single-family home, with one industry benchmark rising to its highest reading since the dot-com boom. The signs...
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2.5KCommercial Lenders Using Foreclosure To Recoup Loans
Investors in commercial real estate, who say they have been patient with missed payments as COVID-19 emptied malls and office buildings, are...
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1.7KMortgage Applications Drop Again, But Refis Remain Strong
Home loan applications overall fell 0.8 percent last week as rates on FHA loans rose, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA)....
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2.4KChinese Property Industry Disruptor Beike Files For $2B US IPO
Chinese property industry disruptor KE Holdings Inc. has filed for an initial public offering (IPO) in the United States that could notch...
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2.8KGoogle, CFPB Team On Housing, Mortgage Search 'Experience'
First-time home buyers and homeowners seeking to refinance have been busy online this year. Google Trends reports the most searched mortgage-related questions...
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1.6KExisting Home Sales Up In June, Down From A Year Ago
Existing home sales rebounded in June, a sign that the nation’s real estate market is making a comeback, but year-over-year transactions are...
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1.6KBuilders Counting On Toronto Housing Recovery
Toronto’s population may be flat, but that hasn’t stopped the region’s developers from building apartments in the country’s financial capital at near...
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1.7KHomebuilding Exec: Wellness Concerns Could Drive Consumers To Buy New Homes
Health is driving consumer decisioning, with the chief executive of one homebuilder noting that wellness – along with the need for more...
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3.7KMall Parking Lots Now Revenue Streams For Owners
As the pandemic upends their entire business model, malls are turning to their own parking lots as new sources of revenue for...
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2.9KTravelex Founder Buys London Office Space, Expressing Optimism In Market
Travelex founder Lloyd Dorfman, in a show of confidence in the U.K. capital's office market, has bought an office in London, Bloomberg...
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3.0KReport: eCommerce Growth Drives Need For New Warehouse Space
The United States will need 1 billion additional square feet of warehouse space by 2025 due to the fast growth of eCommerce,...
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1.7KPending Home Sales Down In May YOY, But Rose From Last Month
Pending home sales continue to be sluggish, according to year-over-year data from the National Association of Realtors (NAR). The Pending Home Sales...
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4.8KHow ‘Self-Touring’ And Digital Lockboxes Can Change Real Estate Rentals
The pandemic has the potential to change the way any number of business verticals operate — especially industries like real estate, which...
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4.5KPlatforms And AI Are Powering Real Estate Investing’s Digital 3.0 Shift
Stock markets are whipsawing. Bond yields, gyrating. Crypto? Bouncing around, to put it mildly. The pandemic has sent any number of investments...
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2.7KHelping Homeowners Access Home Equity Without Debt
When it comes to purchasing a home or attempting to take equity out of a home in cash form — there aren't...
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6.3KBrookfield Delays Payments While Asking Tenants To Pay Up
Asset manager Brookfield, which owns stakes in numerous malls, is demanding retailers pay back rent even as the Toronto-based investment group has...
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5.2KRedfin On The US Housing Market’s Great Snapback (For Now)
For housing, the great snapback? As stock markets whipsaw (the Dow was off more 6 percent on Thursday), as the Federal Reserve...
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2.0KNew Manhattan Residential Listings Up, New Leases Plunge In May
It’s the perfect time to lease a New York City apartment as vacancies rose, causing rental listings to jump, CNBC reported. New...
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5.5KIs Data Aggregation The Key To Banking’s Future?
The pandemic is spurring new opportunities for financial institutions (FIs) of all sizes to improve the range of services they deliver to...
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2.7KZillow Reports More Long-Term Rental Requests
Rental company Zillow said on Thursday (June 4) that it was experiencing more requests for long-term rentals instead of the short-term ones...
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2.9KManhattan Apartment Sales Fell 84 Pct In May
Condominium sales in Manhattan plummeted by 84 percent in May as the COVID-19 pandemic and protests following the death of George Floyd...
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2.0KError-Filled Screening Reports Hurt Renters
The 2008 financial crisis fueled tenant screening to become a $1 billion industry, but some are asking at what cost. The New...
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2.2KConsumers Plunge Back Into Homebuying Market
There’s good news for the economy on the home-buying front. “Purchase applications increased 9 percent last week – the sixth consecutive weekly...
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1.9KApril Home Sales Slide As Buyers, Sellers Wait Out Pandemic
Home sales fell to a 10-year low in April as buying and selling have been challenged by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to...
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9.3KCitigroup Ponders Suburban Satellite Offices
As the country starts lifting stay-at-home mandates and people head back to the office, Citigroup is considering a temporary relocation to the...
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2.5KDemand For New Homes Climbs After Historic Drop
Homebuilder sentiment may be coming out of its worst slump ever, as new data showed confidence improving this month, with one caveat:...
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3.8KManhattan Sees Record-Low Number Of New Leases Amid Pandemic
New leases for Manhattan rentals plummeted by 70.9 percent year over year excluding renewals amid “shelter in place” measures made and enforced...
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2.4KHomebuying And Selling In The Time Of Social Distancing
Land. They’re not making any more of it, as the old saying goes, which is why real estate has always been considered...
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4.1KCrisis Puts Homeownership On Hold For Millennials
It could be the perfect time for millennials to stop throwing their money away on rent and buy a home — or...
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6.3KHomeLight CEO: Using Tech To Transform Real Estate Sales In The Age Of Social Distancing
In the best of the times, homebuying is a fraught process – stressful, time-consuming and marked by friction across several steps of a...
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2.1KUS Pending Home Sales Drop Almost 21 Pct As Buyers Stay Home
Pending single-family home sales fell by nearly 21 percent in March compared to February as the economic impact of COVID-19 took its...
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3.4KNOAH CEO: How A New Twist On Home Equity Helps Homeowners Bridge The Cash Crunch
As the economy has more or less ground to a halt over the last several weeks, time has become harrowing for homeowners...
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5.2KUS New Home Sales Plummet As COVID-19 Hits Housing Market
As COVID-19 started to impact the housing markets during a wind-down in mid-March, new home sales in the United States plummeted 15.4...
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3.5KNew York City Sees Lower Rents
The New York City real estate market, battered like other economic sectors by the coronavirus pandemic, is seeing lower rates than it...
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8.2KLooking Over The (Digital) Horizon As Home Sales Peak
February might well prove to be a month we look back on with nostalgia at economic data, where employment was strong, consumer...
