Charles Feldman

Archive of Charles Feldman's Articles

Charles is currently reporting for KNX Radio in Los Angeles, is the co-author of the book No Time To Think, and can be found commenting about the news on his blog, The Feldman Blog, as well as on The Huffington Post.

Charles has written 179 article(s) for the BiggerPockets Blog.

Commentary

Not Seeing The Foreclosed Forest From The Trees

by Charles Feldman | March 2, 2010

It is easy and often dangerous to jump on any one set of figures as proof of an emerging trend, tempting though it may be. But when times are tough, like they are now, a lot of people who should know better are too quick to pounce on statistics that may be creating a false [...]

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Commercial Real Estate

How Long Before Commercial Real Estate Recovers? Depends

by Charles Feldman | February 24, 2010

May as well kiss commercial real estate goodbye, at least till sometime next year. Yeah, fat chance! The latest report from the National Association of Realtors is darker than a nighttime boy scout camp out without a roaring fire. On its website, NAR’s chief economist says, “Because of the lingering impact from the deep recession [...]

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Real Estate News

Second-hand Smoke Case Against Real Estate Broker Goes Up In Smoke

by Charles Feldman | February 17, 2010

Where there’s smoke, there isn’t always a guilty verdict apparently. A jury in Suffolk County, Mass, said no to a Boston woman’s contention that she was lied to by her real estate broker who she claimed wasn’t truthful about the fact that her neighbor beneath her is a cigarette smoker. It was, says the Boston [...]

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Foreclosures

One Fifth of Homeowners Underwater

by Charles Feldman | February 10, 2010

So many homeowners are now underwater (they owe more than the value of their property) Obama may want to offer a federal program to give scuba lessons to everyone! More than one fifth of ALL homeowners were underwater in the last quarter of 2009, according to Zillow.com and reported by BusinessWeek. And, if that weren’t [...]

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Commentary

Walking Away From Your Upside Down Home: The 75% Solution

by Charles Feldman | February 3, 2010

There has been much debate of late about whether or not it is morally acceptable for homeowners who currently own more for their mortgages than what their homes are actually worth to just walk away from their property, using their “new found” money to pay for a cheaper rental unit, perhaps. Today’s New York Times [...]

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Commentary

So Much For Real, Real Estate Recovery: Enormous Drop In Homes Sales

by Charles Feldman | January 27, 2010

It looks like the Obama White House really does have its job cut out for it: Most economists agree that any meaningful economic recovery must be built upon the foundation of a substantial recovery in the real estate market–the place from where the worst recession since the Great Depression got its start. But new figures [...]

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Landlord Tenant

Landlords Beware: Cats Turns Brooklyn Apartment Into Kitty Sex Palace

by Charles Feldman | January 20, 2010

It all began with just two kittens five years ago. A Brooklyn, New York woman bought a little kitty and brought it home to her one-bedroom apartment. Then she took another kitten in off the mean streets of New York. Let’s just say, the two cats hit it off. I mean, REALLY hit it off! [...]

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Foreclosures

Here Come The 1099-Cs Turning YOUR Short Sale Into A Big Headache

by Charles Feldman | January 13, 2010

If you are like the small, but growing army of folks who have dumped their homes back on the banks in a short sale—and are feeling pretty good that you managed to get the bank to forgive all that debt you owed—stand-by! The IRS is about to dump an even bigger one on YOU! Ever [...]

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New York Real Estate

I’ll Take Manhattan (But Not Staten Island, Too!); Big Apple Real Estate Prices Drop

by Charles Feldman | January 6, 2010

It’s one of those urban myths–you know, like alligators in sewers! That real estate prices in Manhattan always go up, or, at least, maintain their value. But if this were ever true (and historically it has undoubtedly not been from time to time) it certainly is not true now. While sales have actually increased, major [...]

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Economy

Up! Up! And Away! Home Prices Continue To Rise In 20 Cities

by Charles Feldman | December 30, 2009

I admit it. The headline is almost too upbeat. Too optimistic. Too bright and bouncy. Too bubbly. Too rose-colored. Too bright-eyed and bushy tailed. Too much like one of those old pronouncements from the Bush White House. And, yet….And, yet…. home prices in 20 U.S. cities, says Bloomberg, “rose in October for a fifth consecutive [...]

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Foreclosures

Will The Mortgage Foreclosure News Ever Get Better? Maybe. But Not Yet!

by Charles Feldman | December 22, 2009

No way to sugar coat this. The news on foreclosures is not good. A new government survey reveals that both foreclosures and delinquencies went up in the third quarter, despite government attempts to get banks and other lending institutions to modify loans for those in financial distress. The problems are many: For one thing, many [...]

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Mortgages & Lending

Come New Year, The Ball May Drop, But Mortgage Rates May Rise

by Charles Feldman | December 17, 2009

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! But while many of you will have your eyes glued to your flat screens watching a 1080p image of a large, light encrusted ball drop at Times Square, others will be paying closer attention to mortgage rates which many think will go [...]

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Housing

2009: The Year Home Prices Stabilized?

by Charles Feldman | December 9, 2009

Could it be? Home prices actually stabilized this past year? Apparently so, says a new analysis just out from Zillow Real Estate Market Reports. The report says that prices, in fact, stabilized in 2009—but not before losing “trillions of dollars in value” in 2008. Even better news this holiday season, according to Zillow: about one [...]

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Commentary

Obama to Send Approximately an Additional 34,000 Troops to Afghanistan; Why Not Use Them to Fix Housing Instead?

by Charles Feldman | December 1, 2009

Ever notice that governments are so much better at sending in troops for war then sending in help for domestic problems…such as homeowners facing or being in foreclosure? The latest example, I think, is Afghanistan. The President has decided to deploy thousands of more troops (possibly 34,000 according to the Washington Post) to that hell-hole, [...]

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Cool Stuff

This Real Estate Story REALLY Sucks; Now YOU Can Buy The Twilight Vampire’s Home!

by Charles Feldman | November 25, 2009

At a time when banks have been sucking blood dry from homeowners, forcing countless of them into foreclosure, isn’t it nice to know that you can turn the tables and buy a chunk of real estate that banks will not mess with. If they know what’s good for them, anyway. For a paltry $3.3 million [...]

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