Tag: Real estate
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It didn’t take long for Adam Neumann to find controversy. Before starting his new residential real estate startup Flow, Neumann made a big investment in a company that’s suspiciously similar. Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! From an excellent report out yesterday in Forbes: When staff at real estate startup…
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Chinese homebuyers are refusing to pay their mortgages in a boycott that’s spreading across the country. Many fear the homes they’re paying for will never be finished. Now, suppliers to builders are also defaulting on loans. Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! From ABC News Australia: A fast-growing mortgage boycott…
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I think I just saw the future of work. And it is good. In an amazing new video from The Wall Street Journal, reporter Adam Falk tours LinkedIn’s completely redesigned headquarters. He finds every sort of office space a human could want…plus free lattes. Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe!…
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I came across in incredible stat today. Apartments are banned in 76% of San Francisco. It’s no wonder that it’s the most expensive city in the United States. In fact, given increasingly restrictive zoning, 54% of the homes in San Francisco could not be built today! The picture in New…
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Shares in Rocket Companies jumped over 70% today, and that optimism is also reflected in the options market: RKT stock was one of the most active stocks in the options market yesterday with total volume of over 365,000 contracts. Call option volume outpaced puts by a ratio of 6-to-1. Overall…
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Rocket Companies, a mortgage originator, has returned solid profits in 2020’s hot real estate market: Boosted by the boom in mortgage refinancing activity, the company had $15.7 billion in total revenue, or more than triple its $5.1 billion revenue in 2019. Its net income, or profit, skyrocketed to $9.4 billion…
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Regardless of which market we look at, we see a similar trend: skyrocketing prices since the beginning of the pandemic. You can see this in the S&P 500, a broad measure of stocks: In commodities: In the increase in real estate prices and the corresponding decrease in capitalization rates (this…
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A health and economic crisis is scaring nearly everyone right now, including investors. Stocks recovered in record time, but what about investments in real estate? Are they doomed, or is the bad news perhaps a bit overblown? I invest in real estate through Fundrise, which allows me to spread my…
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I recently subscribed to a newsletter from the journalist Matthew Yglesias that has turned out be outstanding. A message I received this morning really struck me. Yglesias argues that the best thing we can do for the poor, given that housing is their biggest expense, is to build housing like…
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+ Affordable housing, Construction, Development, Gentrification, Housing, Policy, Poverty, Real estate, Rent, YIMBY, Zoning+
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