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Construction worker shortage has reached “crisis” levels

Housing Wire

To keep pace with current construction demand, and account for attrition, 740,000 new construction workers are needed each year for the next three years , a report by the Home Builders Institute contends. million new hires for construction. The construction worker shortage has reached crisis level.

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The VA’s little-known program for Native American veterans

Housing Wire

from 2012 to 2021. The GAO’s report said that from 2012 to 2021, 91 loans were originated in Hawaii using the program. In the entire country, 180 loan originations resulted from the program from 2012 to 2021. The Department of Housing and Urban Development and the United States Department of Agriculture have similar programs.

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Existing home sales dip downwards for fourth month

Housing Wire

For the NAR, this is a record high and marks 111 straight months of year-over-year gains since March 2012. One positive development was the 7% increase in for-sale inventory, which should slightly help price conditions,” said Joel Kan, associate vice president of economic and industry forecasting for the Mortgage Bankers Association.

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Savvy real estate agents look beyond ChatGPT

Housing Wire

The history of AI and where it is going The Turing Test was developed by Alan Turing in 1950. It re-emerged in the AI scene in October 2012. Geoff Hinton, a professor at the University of Toronto, and two students, constructed a viable neural network. However, it was deemed as too challenging technologically so it languished.

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The (New) Tallest Chart In The History Of Manhattan Real Estate

Miller Samuel

I have done this before, first in 2012 when the famed $88 million penthouse sale at 15 Central Park West launched the global "super luxury" "aspirational pricing" phenomenon and the subsequent 2014 Michael Dell penthouse sale at One57 of $100.5 million.

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Are you prepping for worst-case commission lawsuit outcomes?

Housing Wire

I was just too busy building the company, selling real estate and developing properties.” “Every time, my family was in the construction lending business, and they’d lose homes and file bankruptsy. So, in 2012, he decided to start a property management company rather another traditional real estate brokerage.

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Rural America is losing affordable housing at a crisis pace

Housing Wire

It now faces a wave of mortgage maturities and payoffs on the thousands of affordable-housing complexes it has helped to finance over the years — with no new construction carried out under the program since 2012. The legislation would provide several tools to help stem the loss of Section 515 affordable-housing in rural America. “But

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