The Dodd Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act took full effect in January 2014 – a wide-ranging piece of legislation that affects how sales of residential real estate are managed. In an age when more property sales than ever before are conducted...
The official end of the Federal Reserve’s third round of Quantitative Easing came in October 2014, and as the dust settles, financial experts are still debating just who benefited the most from that massive economic boost – and it may not have been US consumers. It’s...
It’s no secret in real estate circles that Millennials aren’t buying houses. And while financial experts cite several key reasons why that’s true, they don’t carry equal weight in all areas of the country – a point worth considering for investors in rental real...
For over a century, scie3nc fiction writers have been inventing futures in which intelligent machines and robots run the world, with either wondrous benefits or devastating consequences for human life. And now, thanks to lightning fast advances in robotics and...
The Ability to Repay and Qualified Mortgage Rules for mortgage lending took effect in January 2014, part of a wide-ranging package of reforms aimed at boosting the housing recovery after the crash of 2008. But those regulations may be having the opposite effect. The...
