Category: multifamily
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Builder: Sarasota city rules make attainable housing concept a ‘losing proposition’
(According to the real estate website Redfin, the median sale price in the Sarasota housing market is $529,900, up 10.4% from a year ago.) simplydwell-homes-built-7-houses-on-a-sarasota-property-across-from-booker-high-school-that-had-fallen-into-disrepair.-photo-by-lori-sax The Neal Communities-associated builder says Sarasota made it so difficult to build a small, low-priced community that it’s hesitant…
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Mortgage Meters Tick Up
After a brief stretch of relief, 30-year mortgage rates rose to 6.81% this week—reversing a multi-week decline as investors recalibrated expectations for Fed policy. Though still below last year’s peak, the uptick comes at a time when affordability is already…
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Commercial Real Estate Marketing
I’ve recently been looking into a different type of real estate marketing for Commercial Real Estate, especially income producing assets. My thoughts are along these lines; In residential amped up videos you get great camerawork in a lot of cases…
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Cooling Off, For Now
The latest CPI report shows that U.S. inflation slowed to 2.3% in April—its lowest annual pace since early 2021. The drop comes even as President Trump’s new round of tariffs on Chinese goods begins to filter into the economy.…
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I love data and this is some helpful data.
I pulled this information from CREXI a little earlier as I’m chasing a phone conversation with a current client who wants to achieve a higher value but is having difficulty supporting that desired value. ASKING CAP RATE Multifamily 7.11% DAYS…
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Month to Month Mortgage Malaise
As of this weekend, the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate remains around 6.70%, underscoring the Fed’s continued hawkish bias and the stickiness of core inflation. Although job growth remains healthy, policymakers appear unwilling to cut until wage growth and services…
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Forgiveness Fatigue
The Trump administration has unveiled sweeping changes to federal student loan forgiveness programs, including the elimination of the SAVE income-driven plan and narrower eligibility for Public Service Loan Forgiveness. The reforms disproportionately impact medical and dental trainees and reintroduce aggressive…
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Defeating conspiracy theorists and providing some value and knowledge on 1031 exchanges
Can I sell my baseball card collection and roll it into a Flex space warehouse? Like-Kind Exchange Under section 1031 of the Internal Revenue Code, the owner of real property can sell that property and then reinvest the proceeds in…
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Tampa’s & Fort Myer’s new apartments have been shrinking
Cities in Florida with largest new apartments Among 100 U.S. cities with the most apartments in buildings with at least 50 rental units; 10-year change compares average size of new apartments completed 2005-2014 to 2015-2024 A table showing the average…
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