Economy by Steve Cook | January 18, 2012In the dorky world of real estate economics, the creation of a new housing category should be a major event, on par with, say, the discovery of a new solar system or the cloning of a pig. Strangely, single family rentals (SFR), even though they are now a multi-million property segment of the nation’s housing [...]
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A nation’s homes shape the quality of its citizens’ lives. Homes are where the workaday world ends and family life begins. Life’s passages take place in our homes; they are where children grow up and memories are made. Homes form the building blocks of every community. Not since the Depression has a man-made disaster so [...]
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Forget Real Estate Appreciation, Just Call it Recovery
by Ken Corsini | November 9, 2011Interestingly, you don’t hear the term “appreciation rate” much anymore. I was conducting a seminar this weekend and somebody in the group asked what our annual appreciation rate was. I was taken aback because the notion that real estate values are increasing or may be on the rise in the near future almost seems taboo. [...]