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Investors turn their eyes to affordable housing opportunities

Housing Wire

As the pandemic shifts from crisis to chronic, investors, community leaders and housing advocates say they intend to make the most of the chance to permanently elevate the case for affordable housing even as economic metrics are starting to shift.

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Shaun Donovan is named Enterprise Community Partners CEO

Housing Wire

Department of Housing and Urban Development ( HUD ) and former director of the U.S. Donovan, who served during the full eight years of the Barack Obama administration, bring to the role nearly three decades of housing policy and community development initiative experience. Shaun Donovan, the former secretary of the U.S.

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Michael Bright: Where residential mortgage-backed securities can take sustainable investing

Housing Wire

The Securities and Exchange Commission has begun the process of developing mandated disclosure regimes for funds that consider ESG factors in their marketing material. Millennial and Gen Z investors have been voting with their wallets, demanding that ESG-like items are incorporated into investment decisions.

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11 Tips for hosting real estate workshops for buyers and sellers 

Housing Wire

Do you specialize in helping first-time buyers and sellers, or are you leaning towards working with real estate investors ? Veteran investors don’t need a lecture on what to bring to the closing table, but first-time buyers do. Before you plan your workshop, consider who your target clients are.

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The obstacles to a digital mortgage are changing – Here’s what lenders need to know

Housing Wire

banking, shopping, transportation). As for investors, the GSEs were pretty much the only ones accepting eNotes. The landscape of investors accepting eClosed loans and eMortgages has grown exponentially. They also realize that if they don’t provide this experience, larger national retail lenders will. But this is all changing.

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How to Conduct the Most Effective Columbus, Ohio Property Search

The Robert Weiler Company

Also, see why Columbus is a hot spot for commercial real estate investors. Tip 4: Tap into Transportation. If you think you’ve found a great area that passes all of the aforementioned criteria, now it’s time to look into transportation. It’s what we do! Read on for our expert tips and tricks of the trade. Budget, budget, budget!

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

The Robert Weiler Company

Industrial real estate investors and developers can’t add new properties to the market fast enough. According to a recent report from commercial real estate development association, NAIOP , there is a lot of optimism for the industrial sector, nationally, as supply chain conditions steadily improve.

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