The US Rental Market: Headed for a Slowdown?

Is the red-hot rental market getting ready to cool down? The US housing market continues to recover, fueled by promising numbers for employment and other consumer sectors. But major shifts in the housing landscape may be changing all that, as the balance tilts between...

Balancing Tenant Rights and Landlord Access

You’ve got a rental property occupied by (you hope) great tenants. But you can’t just leave that property on autopilot. Sometimes you need to get access to your property – but that means invading the privacy of your tenants. What’s an investor/landlord to do? The...

Will Taxing the Rich Hurt Housing?

A new proposal to slap uber-wealthy property owners in New York City with extra taxes could mean the end of luxury buildings in the city – and critics fear that this kind of strategy for “taxing the rich” could set a dangerous precedent for other cash strapped US...

Depressed Markets Mean Desperate Sellers

Got an iPhone? Want to buy a house? Or, maybe you have an iPad, or an Android device. The owner of a severely troubled house in Detroit doesn’t really care. This individual, who’s now living abroad, just wants to unload the property. That owner isn’t alone, either. In...

Renting is Hot – Will It Stay That Way?

It should be a pretty good time to become a homeowner. Americans say they want a piece of the old American dream of buying a home. But home buying is at its lowest level in decades, while renting homes and other kinds of dwellings is surging in many areas around the...