Opinion The Fed's Recent Statements Foreshadow Changes and Concerns This week, the Federal Reserve alluded to a rate hike in December, despite this spring's low inflation readings, and to a fear that central...
Opinion Another Housing Market Affected by This Year's Hurricanes Hurricanes Irma and Harvey damaged almost 1.8 million homes, aggravating the mobile home market's tight inventory. Sales of new units are...
Opinion Proposed Capital Gains Tax Changes Could Cause the Housing Market to Stall Housing inventory and short-term homeowners may be heavily impacted by proposed changes to laws excluding home sales up to $500,000 from...
Opinion New Merger Creates Largest Single-Family Landlord The completion of the merger of Invitation Homes and Starwood Waypoint Homes, originally announced in August, is the latest of a series of...
Opinion Proposed Tax Reforms May 'Chill' NY Housing Market Brokers and analysts say that the House and Senate GOP tax plans to reduce or eliminate the state and local tax deduction are threatening...
Opinion House GOP Tax Proposal Creates Potential Obstacle for Affordable Housing Tax-exempt private activity bonds (PABs) are commonly used for the construction of affordable multifamily housing, hospitals, and...
Opinion Experts Concerned House GOP Tax Bill Would Damage Reconstruction Projects in Florida, Texas In a letter to House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), Texas and Florida housing groups warned that the House GOP tax bill could hurt post...
Opinion Tax Proposal 'Changing the Calculus' For Second-Home Buyers The GOP-proposed tax reform has not yet passed, however, the possibility that the second-home mortgage deduction will be eliminated has...
