Real Estate

Broker/Owner of Commercial Professionals in Las Vegas for over 25 years, professional speaker and author of The Successful Woman’s Mindset. getty The initial step into commercial real estate is often a challenge for new investors. Whether you already have experience investing in residential properties or this is your very first real estate venture, you likely have a

Arian Nemati is Co-Founder and CEO at ADEx and Ecognitionlabs.com, an AI research and development company. getty With approximately 11% of Americans out of work in June of 2020 and 82% of small business owners reporting they are concerned or very concerned about the potential impact of the virus on their business, it might seem at first glance that

People walk into a house for sale in Floral Park, Nassau County, New York, the United States, on Sept. 6, 2020. Home buyers eying for cozy backyards and more office space are staging bidding wars in the suburbs surrounding New York City amid the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. Wang Ying | Xinhua News Agency

Pixbay One of the familiar refrains of the pandemic is that it is the epitaph of the city. No longer are we working from home, we are now living at work. Consequently, people, like salmon, are retreating to the rural utopias from whence they spawned. Equipped with wifi and a Nespresso machine, they have all

The Sorting Office that Google was planning to lease in Dublin, Ireland. Google Dublin Sorting Office Google has decided not to press ahead with plans to lease an office in Ireland with enough space for 2,000 staff. The news was first reported by Bloomberg and confirmed to CNBC by Google. Based in Dublin’s Docklands area,

As the pandemic rages on, many people have one less thing to worry about: Getting evicted. No-Mad | iStock | Getty Images What does the ban do? It bans evictions due to non-payment of rent in most residential properties between Sept. 4 and Dec. 31.  Who’s eligible? You’ll need to attest on a declaration form that

Eric is real estate investor and founder of MartelTurnkey. MartelTurnkey sells rental properties to investors looking for passive income. getty The Covid-19 pandemic has left millions of people stressed over their finances. The unemployment claims have passed 40 million as more people find themselves in need of assistance. The challenges brought about by the pandemic are

Mortgage delinquencies are expected to continue to rise this year. getty The nation’s serious delinquency rate for mortgage loans more than doubled from May to June, reaching its highest level since February 2015, according to a new loan performance insights report by property data analytics provider CoreLogic. On a national level, 7.1% of mortgages were

View Pictures/Universal Images Group via Getty Images There is a great debate raging around the world on the future of office spaces. Many are trying to return to the way things were, while others claim the modern office is dead. Huge companies are following Twitter’s example in saying that their workforce can work from home

Matt Cardy | Getty Images News | Getty Images U.K. house prices saw their biggest growth since 2016 in August, climbing to a record high, according to Britain’s longest-running barometer of the property market.  The Halifax House Price Index, which is run by analysis company IHS Markit, found that U.K. house prices grew by 5.2%

The affects of indoor air quality is top of mind as we spend more time at home Is your vacuum spewing particles back into the air? picture alliance via Getty Images The EPA cites indoor air quality (IAQ) as one of the top five environmental risks to public health. Since the pandemic’s March shut down,

Rendering of Maude Park, Middlefield Park Source: Google When Google announced plans for its new Mountain View tech campus this week, it didn’t look like the Silicon Valley campuses that preceded it. It’s an even starker contrast from Apple‘s high-profile “spaceship” campus just several miles away, whose completed design garnered worldwide attention just two years

After the financial crisis of 2009-2013 that led to a haircut on deposits of more than $8 billion, Cyprus introduced a “golden visas” scheme in order to exit recession. Indeed, the scheme significantly helped the country’s economy to return to positive growth rates in just three years. It also helped companies in the real estate

SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA – JULY 09: The Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden stops in front of … [+] his childhood home on July 09, 2020 in Scranton, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Getty Images Housing policy wasn’t a major theme of the recent Democratic National Convention, however, Joe Biden did put out a Housing Policy

Median listing prices rose 19% in Philadelphia in August getty Realtor.com recently released the latest numbers on the country’s housing market. Economists crunched the numbers from August. Despite a 10 % year-over-year increase in the national median listing price to $350,000, the market is hotter and more competitive than ever. This current listing price growth is

Aaron Marshall is CEO & Co-Founder of Keyrenter Property Management, the nation’s leading property management and real estate franchise. getty If you’re in property management or you work in any sort of real estate, it would be very easy right about now to feel pretty bleak about your profession. “Nobody in their right mind,” you might think,

Corporate offices have become far more fluid in recent years, and that flexibility will be a key … [+] component of the next generation of WFH furniture. Teknion Is it befuddlement you seek? You’ll be well on your way to reaching that state if you try to gain clarity by poring over countless surveys, studies

Scott Mlyn | CNBC After holding flat for a couple of weeks, the number of borrowers in public and private coronavirus-related mortgage bailout programs saw a much bigger improvement than expected. Most still in getting aide, however, have extended their terms, suggesting they are still unable to get current on their home loans.  The number

David is CEO of Move, Inc./realtor.com. Realtor.com makes buying, selling, and living in homes easier and more rewarding for everyone. getty Before I joined realtor.com, I thought of online home search the way most people probably do — a way to look at pretty pictures of homes, dream about where my family and I might live, and

A ban on evictions is meeting resistance from rental housing providers. getty An eviction moratorium issued Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is drawing a chorus of disapproval from multifamily housing advocates who say the action is overly burdensome and interferes with their own obligations to provide safe and affordable housing. The

Polk Properties offers over 30 yrs of Real Estate Vision and Expertise you can trust and depend on. We focus on long-range portfolio value.  getty Brokers in the real estate industry hold their client lists dear. Relationship-building is our bread and butter. We tailor our activities to enhance and grow that list. We advertise, cold call, attend

A “For Sale by Owner” sign is posted in front of property in Monterey Park, California. Frederic J. Brown | AFP | Getty Images Homebuyers are rushing for mortgages, but fewer homeowners are refinancing even though rates are heading toward record lows. Total mortgage application volume fell 2% last week from the previous week, according

Boxes sit stacked near a moving truck outside Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. … [+] Photographer: Scott Eisen/Bloomberg © 2020 Bloomberg Finance LP Back in April, as it was becoming clear that the Coronavirus pandemic would have a lasting impact on everything from the future of work to religious worship, a Harris Poll survey found

Most renters in the U.S. are now protected from eviction until the end of the year, according to an order announced on Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  The ban is unprecedented and could prevent millions of Americans from being forced out of their homes during one of the worst public health crises in

Yesterday the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention issued a nationwide order halting evictions through the end of the year. The order covers 43 million U.S. residential renters if they meet income and other eligibility requirements. AFP via Getty Images The CDC’s action follows President Trump’s Executive Order of August 8, 2020. The order

Late Tuesday, as temporary, coronavirus-related eviction protections in several states had expired, the Trump administration announced a somewhat creative plan to stop most rental evictions through the end of the year. The White House issued an order through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that declared evictions during a pandemic are a national health

Transcendentalist author Henry David Thoreau once wrote in his classic book Walden, “We need the tonic of wildness.” In this book from 1854, Thoreau wrote about his life in the woods in Massachusetts, which focused on simple living in nature and privacy. His serene way of life surrounded by nature served as inspiration for Walden

Rendering of Maude Park, Middlefield Park Source: Google Whoever thought the coronavirus pandemic would drastically change tech companies’ real estate plans in Silicon Valley, hasn’t met Google. The Alphabet company has proposed a new tech campus in its historic home city of Mountain View, with plans to remodel 40 acres into a mixed-use center that

Over the summer, I wrote a book called The Race Awakening of 2020: A 6 Step Guide For Moving Forward. The book was written over a weekend of despair as I tried to cope with what is going on this country related to racial injustice. My wife and I were having very difficult conversations with

Luxury apartments are advertised in a realtors window on the West Side of Manhattan in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Manhattan sales contracts fell 31% in August while deals in the suburbs and Florida surged, suggesting that the flight from New York City continued through the summer. There were 585 sales contracts