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Residential Real Estate Created $2 Trillion in Wealth for Homeowners
While the current residential real estate market may be causing home buyers short-term pain, the strength in housing is a long-term positive for the overall health of the US economy and has added a tremendous amount of wealth for homeowners. As recently reported by...
Wall Street Investors Continue to Target Residential Housing
Soaring home prices and strong demand for residential housing have once again caught the attention of large Wall Street Investors. As recently reported in the Wall Street Journal, “Blackstone Group Inc. has agreed to buy a company that buys and rents single-family...
Today’s Soaring Home Prices – While Challenging – are Likely Not a Housing Bubble
Is the US residential real estate market currently experiencing another housing bubble? That is one of the most frequent questions that we get from current and potential investors. It is understandable why so many people are asking the question. Most people have a...
National Association of Realtors Estimates a Housing Unit Shortage of 5.5 Million
A recently-released report by the National Association of Realtors estimates that the U.S. residential housing market supply is currently short by 5.5 million units. If this estimate is accurate, would-be home buyers and renters could potentially expect this...
Landlords and Renters Will Continue to Receive Government Help
These are indeed strange times for the residential real estate market. Prices for residential homes are skyrocketing in nearly every geography and across all sectors. The historic low supply of residential housing is causing chaos across the country for both home...
It Might Be Too Early to Predict the Decline of Large Cities
The residential real estate market has changed in unprecedented ways over the past year. Recently, Forbes.com published an article discussing how homebuyers have increasingly moved away from large cities toward suburban locations. As stated in the article, “According...