Treasury yields jump to highest since March. What does the GA senate race mean for real estate?

Treasury yields jump to highest since March. What does the GA senate race mean for real estate?

Happy new year to everyone. It is crazy that we are still talking about the election … it seems like it is never ending.  Fortunately the Georgia senate runoffs were the last of this cycle.  As Georgia flipped Democratic, treasury rates jumped to their highest since...
2021 real estate predictions:  What happens to residential and commercial values and interest rates

2021 real estate predictions: What happens to residential and commercial values and interest rates

What a year 2020 has been!  The pandemic struck, unemployment has hit records, there was a nice rebound in the summer, and recently a downward trend due to the spike in Coronavirus cases.  What does 2021 hold for the economy, interest rates, and residential and...
841 billion in forbearance, who will be left holding the bag? Will 2020 be a 2008 repeat?

841 billion in forbearance, who will be left holding the bag? Will 2020 be a 2008 repeat?

Almost 10% of all government sponsored mortgages entered mortgage forbearance which accounts for almost 841 billion dollars in loans.  4 in 5 workers say they live paycheck to paycheck, with around 30 million people unemployed, the numbers could be daunting. Yet the...
Covid Vaccine, impact on real estate, biggest real estate risk on the horizon

Covid Vaccine, impact on real estate, biggest real estate risk on the horizon

Pfizer announced that their Covid vaccine in trials was 90% effective at preventing infection.  The stock market took off and traders began reshuffling their pandemic bets with Zoom down 20% and Disney, hotels, and cruise operators up substantially.  Will there be a...