Real Estate Finance

The housing market is often described in terms of mortgage rates, home prices, and inventory. But behind those visible factors is a less obvious force that plays a major role in determining ...

Rates are not the problem. The problem is that too many borrowers are still thinking about rates the way they did in 2021, and that mindset is creating friction in deals that should be getti...

The distressed real estate market in New York and New Jersey is producing some of the most complex financing situations in recent memory. Partner disputes, stalled construction projects, tec...

San Clemente, California, once a mostly local market, is now drawing a steady flow of investors and second-home buyers from Los Angeles, inland Orange County, and out of state. Recent deals ...

For many buyers, the math on urban homeownership stopped working years ago. Prices climbed, inventory stayed tight, and the new construction that did appear skewed toward luxury — leaving ...

Most people involved in a commercial real estate transaction have a role they can point to. The buyer wants the asset. The seller wants to move on. The lender wants to deploy capital safely....

The numbers tell a stark story. America’s 74 million millennials are competing for roughly 800,000 homes available for sale at any given time. That’s nearly 100 millennials for e...

The conversation around portfolio diversification typically focuses on asset classes: stocks versus bonds, growth versus value, domestic versus international equities. Yet one diversificatio...

Florida’s homestead exemption provides primary residents with one of the state’s most significant tax breaks, capping annual property tax increases and reducing assessed value. Yet, acco...

Real estate attracts people who are good with people — agents who can read a room, build trust quickly, and close. Those skills matter enormously. But they have little to do with the finan...

Buying or selling a home has never been more complicated. Even in strong markets, deals often fall apart — not because of price, but because of miscommunication, logistical hurdles, and un...

Buyers are not Connecticut’s housing problem. At the right price, in the right town, offers arrive fast and in quantity. What’s harder — and what separates successful transacti...

The Texas real estate market continues to show stability and opportunity, even as buyer behavior has shifted and national housing markets face growing uncertainty. While much of the country ...

Some real estate transactions are straightforward. Many are not. For Jon Lester, Head of Growth and Operations at Home Buyer Mississippi, the complicated ones are often the most meaningful. ...

In a market where most investors demand immediate cash flow, a veteran commercial operator is re-entering multifamily with a counterintuitive strategy: acquire at zero, profit after taxes, a...