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The complete guide to selling rental property in 2022

Housing Wire

Roofstock Marketplace is a platform that brings together investors, both buyers, and sellers, who want to buy or sell property with tenants. That’s the idea of investing in real estate, right? Short-term capital gains are taxed at your regular tax rate and may bump you up until the next tax bracket for higher tax rates.

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What the Biden tax plans mean for the housing market

Housing Wire

I will focus here on the tax elements of the two proposals that would directly affect real estate markets. The real estate-related tax proposals fall into six main categories: The most significant “pay-for” in The American Jobs Plan (AJP) is an increase in the corporate tax rate from 21% to 28%.

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The title insurance industry prepares for battle

Housing Wire

First American executives noted that refinance revenue had declined 68% compared to a year ago, on the firm’s third quarter earnings call with investors, while Old Republic International Corp.’s s president and CEO Craig Smiddy told investors on his firm’s Q2 2022 earnings call that refinance activity had “dried up.”.

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Opinion: FHA should lower Mortgage Insurance Premium

Housing Wire

Compare this to the larger market of the GSEs who only hit a 45% FTHB rate and it is clear that FHA is the primary entry program to homeownership and hits younger people at a time where every penny counts — far more than those in higher income brackets. They range between GNMA investor confidence to past history. The time is now.

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Investment Property: How Much Can You Write Off on Your Taxes?

Zillow

There are certain things you can do as a real estate investor to help manage your tax bill and maximize your after-tax return on investment. To do so, however, you need to understand the primary ways in which investment real estate portfolios get taxed. A third way, estate tax , applies only to dead investors.).

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Appraising Fixer Uppers

Appraisal Today

The terms “entrepreneurial incentive” and “entrepreneurial profit” are typically discussed in terms of investment property, but the principles involved can also be applied to the many fixer-uppers—whether the buyer is a “purely investor type” or an “owner occupied investor type.” per month, $24.75 Click here for more info!

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Houston Housing Market Forecast: Current Data & 2021 Predictions

Houston Properties

SUMMARY: Coming off a record year, the Houston real estate market started 2021 in a seller’s market. Remember: real estate is hyper-local! KEY RESOURCES: Study Of How Previous Pandemics Affected The Real Estate Market. However, in real estate, it should make the value of the assets larger in dollar terms.