Real Estate

Certain elements of any commercial real estate transaction will tend to drive up the legal fees. RANJAN SAMARAKONE Commercial real estate clients regularly complain about legal bills, both because they think the hourly rate is too high and they say the work took too many hours. It’s a compelling demonstration of the incredible power of

Page views and home sales are up in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. getty The ability to work remotely has many home buyers toying with the idea of moving to vacation home markets, which are seeing increased interest as shifting priorities and preferences transform where and how people want to live.  Page views of for-sale listings

Longboat Key is only 15 minutes from Sarasota getty Florida’s Longboat Key attracts five-star luxury development. Longboat Key a moneyed enclave, neighboring affluent Sarasota is a hot property right now. In Q3 2020 closed condominium and townhome sales above a million hit 102 compared to 39 in Q3 2019. Located in both Sarasota and Manatee

Founder of Keepmore.com and author of “Hidden Investing: What the Wealthiest 1% Know That We Don’t.” Getty I’ve dedicated the last few years of my life to doing everything I can to raise the level of financial literacy among the people I know and love. I even recently published a book with the mission of

A pair of lawsuits aim to stop a HUD rule that would weaken a key fair housing tool. getty A coalition of fair housing advocates has filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development over the recent reversal of long-standing fair housing protections.  The suit challenges HUD’s new disparate impact

One out of two college students knows “housing insecurity” by heart, first-hand. As many as 68,000 claim to be homeless. That data came before the novel coronavirus struck, heat-seeking America’s and the world’s most vulnerable. So when sustainable urbanism grad student Armelle Coutant and three of her Stanford University colleagues set out on a sleep-deprived

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A “sold” sign is posted on a home in Westfield, Ind., Friday, Sept. 25, 2020. The housing market has … [+] staged a furious comeback this summer, even as the economy struggles to regain its footing. Home sales have surged to the highest level in more than a decade. The strength has been driven by