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Build This House: Real Estate Opportunities in The U.S. Under Biden

Introduction Whilst real estate stood at the epicenter of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), the asset class has held up with demonstrable resilience throughout the globally synchronized recessions spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic. With red hot residential markets in advanced and emerging market economies alike—from Canada to China and from the U.K. to Singapore—policymakers have… Read more

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COVID-19 and the Single-Family Home Market: One City’s Experience

The Residential Real Estate Market and the Pandemic The first American COVID-19 case was reported on January 21, 2020, in Washington state. Although the media reported the growing threat of the virus throughout the last week in January and throughout February, the declaration of a public health emergency on March 13th by President Trump signaled… Read more

General Liability Insurance & Crime Scores: Caution Advised for the Multifamily Property Industry

Many insurance carriers purchase third-party crime scores to further evaluate an insurance portfolio’s exposure to criminal risk.1 However, crime scores represent another hurdle for multifamily owners and operators to overcome in the general liability underwriting process. Through interviews with insurance brokers and multifamily operators, they indicated that the use of crime scores in general liability… Read more

Perspectives

The Small Business Reorganization Act: The Answers You Need to Know

The COVID-19 pandemic and the attendant “stay at home” orders that took effect throughout the country starting in March 2020 had and continue to have a significant impact on many businesses and their ability to operate at all, let alone to operate profitably. We’ve all seen the bankruptcy headlines, which have focused largely on recognizable… Read more

Perspectives

Premiums or Discounts? The State of Real Estate Investing in the U.S. and Mexico

Over Net Asset Values Who would not want to have a window into the future and be able to see what the value of real estate investments would be, especially when going through a crisis, as is the COVID-19 pandemic? Most financial institutions and major players in the real estate industry conduct surveys and develop… Read more

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Revisiting Residential Brokerage Fees in a More Technologically Advanced World

Introduction Anyone following the housing market understands that inventories of existing homes have continued to shrink, time on the market has never been faster, and often reasonably priced homes sell in one day. Add to this a huge reduction in labor-intensive on-site visits replaced by detailed video tours and a portfolio of photos, and the average buyer can much more efficiently whittle their list of potential home candidates to a much... Read More