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20 major metro areas are waiting for the Amazon HQ2 announcement with baited breath. Amazon told NBC News in mid-May that it had completed its tour of the “short list” of contenders for its second headquarters, dubbed HQ2. Based on this information (and little else,...

Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to roll back a number of banking rules enacted in 2010 under the Dodd-Frank Act. The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, known simply as “Dodd-Frank” for short, was passed in response to the...

Homeowners who sell in May tend to realize the biggest premiums on their home sales Although the best month in which to sell your home is officially May, the best day of the year to sell is June 28. According to new data from ATTOM Data, homeowners who sell in May net...

Freddie Mac will offer low-cost loans to owners of multifamily properties who keep the majority of their units affordable to tenants who earn 80 percent or less of the local median income for the duration of the loan. Freddie Mac will offer low-cost loans to owners of...

MIT researchers are adding to the debate on rent control with a new paper on the relationship between rent control and crime. While many people feel rent control keeps people off the streets and away from a life of crime, this study found that by eliminating rent...

Housing markets like Seattle, Las Vegas, San Jose, Nashville, Salt Lake City, and Kansas City are so competitive buyers are making offers sight-unseen and going to other great lengths to close the deal. Homebuyers are getting desperate for deals – any deals at all –...

Changes in home prices give us the best idea of what’s going on in a local real estate market. But you can’t just take price increases at face value and think that bigger is better. Home prices can be increasing at a good clip for three main reasons, two of which are...

So, you’ve found a great real estate deal and a motivated seller ready to hand you the keys at closing. At this point, you may debate whether to wholesale the deal to another investor buyer for quick cash or to rehab the property yourself, which will obviously take...