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Opinion: tools for landlords to help low-income tenants

Housing Wire

The federal Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program is a powerful tool to help low-income families find apartments they can afford, but the program isn’t reaching its potential because far too few landlords participate in it. Why don’t landlords participate? The challenge at hand is ripe for bipartisan action. million households.

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The role of consumer transaction data in increasing homeownership access

Housing Wire

In addition to providing lenders with a powerful tool for responsibly expanding housing finance opportunities to underserved communities, ATP enables lenders to increase volume by capturing the business of creditworthy loan applicants that would have been declined under less sophisticated underwriting models.

Landlords 408
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Why it’s time for the housing industry to get serious about climate risk

Housing Wire

These losses – both insured and uninsured – have traditionally been borne by homeowners, renters, landlords, builders, and property & casualty insurance companies. And the Federal Reserve has asked the nation’s six largest banks to participate in a climate scenario analysis designed to measure and manage climate-related financial risks.

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The Fed pauses its rate hikes for now, will it last?

Housing Wire

The CME FedWatch Tool showed a 99% chance the Fed would halt its hikes to the 5.25 Raising interest rates is designed to tackle those still-high prices outside of the volatile food and energy sectors. Additionally, apartment construction is strong , which puts an additional pressure on landlords to avoid vacancy. a year earlier.

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Warehouse Space in Columbus, Ohio: 17 Actionable Steps to Find, Lease & Organize Your Next Hub

The Robert Weiler Company

Ask your current landlord. If you’re currently renting warehouse space and looking for additional units elsewhere or simply seeking an upgrade, speak with your current landlord, first. Next visit commercial real estate listing sites such as Crexi, LoopNet, PropertyShark, 42Floors, CityFeet; use their search tools to narrow the results.

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Hit list: Inside CoStar’s all-out war against Zillow

Housing Wire

websites for office space — LoopNet , and residential rentals — Apartments.com , generating revenue from subscriptions by landlords and commercial brokers. commercial brokerages, JLL , CBRE , and Cushman Wakefield plotted designing an alternative database to CoStar. Also, CoStar owns the most trafficked U.S.

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7 best real estate schools in Massachusetts for 2024

Housing Wire

Exam Prep: The Basic Prelicensing package features three e-books and a course manual designed to help you retain essential real estate concepts and prepare for the state exam. Features Commercial Real Estate Basics and 5 other landlord and tenant courses Broker Prelicensing $420 Online Broker Supervised Video Course: Webinar.