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Increasing the Inventory of Affordable Housing

Working Together to Make a Difference By Robert Rakowski HomeVestors®, the “We Buy Ugly Houses®” company, is playing an important role in addressing the housing inventory crunch with the current U.S. housing Inventory at 51% of pre-pandemic levels. This is especially true for first-time buyers. Potential homebuyers are seeing fewer fresh listings as sellers have stepped back even further. In April, new sales listings decreased, defying normal seasonal trends. According

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Turning a Profit in the Post-Pandemic Housing Paradox

2023 Will be All About Disappointment…and Opportunity By Bruce McNeilage When the New Year rolled around at midnight on January 1, 2023, we entered what could be one of the most opportunity-filled years for real estate investors in more than a decade. On the other hand, we also entered one of the most treacherous years in housing that we have seen in over a decade. Now that the country appears

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the “Lake Next Door” Affects Your Property Values

What Happens When Water-Related Value Goes Down the Drain? By Dana Nutt Imagine this scenario: You own a wonderful cabin near a crystal-clear, blue-ribbon trout stream. Just a couple of miles up the road, there is a picturesque lake that is home to an incredible variety of wildlife, including turtles, beavers, loons, frogs, and osprey. Your riverside cabin is the stuff that sportsmen’s and outdoorsmen’s dreams are made of, and

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The Single-Family Rental Home Industry Has Never Been More Important

Sound Government Policies Are Needed to Create Favorable Market Conditions By David Howard As members of the National Rental Home Council (NRHC) prepare to gather in Nashville this month for the annual SFR Industry Leaders Conference, intensifying headwinds continue to swirl around the global economy. Rising interest rates, a weight on the housing market for the better part of the past year, have now started to curtail growth across a

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What Silicon Valley Bank’s Collapse Could Mean for Private Money

In a Global Economy, Every Financial “Ripple” Matters By Carole VanSickle Ellis In early March 2023, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), a major bank in Silicon Valley that had made its name catering to venture-backed tech startups, was taken over by federal regulators. The SVB collapse was the start of the second-biggest bank failure in history and was instigated by a run on deposits after the institution announced it had sold

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Rent Moratorium Policies

Today’s Out-of-Control Inflation Could Have Been Avoided By Tom Olson What may have seemed like well-intentioned emergency measures taken during the first two years of the COVID-19 global pandemic are now having unintended consequences. Policies intended to help financially stressed and distressed people access housing have hurt everyone involved in the process of creating, providing, and making use of housing in the United States. These emergency measures played a major

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