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The American housing market is undergoing a quiet revolution. With the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate hovering near 7%, a growing number of borrowers are eschewing traditional financing in favor of unconventional structures—chief among them, land leases. Bayview Asset Management’s recent offering—a 50-year land …
The U.S. House of Representatives has handed a lifeline to institutional investors in the fast-growing build-to-rent (BTR) sector, approving a bipartisan housing bill that drops a contentious provision requiring them to sell properties after seven years. The original Senate version of the ROAD to …
Midtown Manhattan’s beleaguered office market has seen vacancy rates hover near 20%, with sublease space piling up and rents under pressure. Yet 787 Seventh Avenue—a 1.2m sq ft, Class A tower owned by CommonWealth Partners—stands out as a magnet for prestige tenants. Willkie Farr …
Key HighlightsNextHome Inc.’s ChiefRevenueOfficer, Charis Moreno, urges real-estate agents to prioritise human connections over transactional metrics.Moreno’s “Humans over houses” philosophy challenges agents to stay focused amid unpredictable marketVolatilityand industry distractions.The approach gained traction on social platforms like Instagram and X, sparking debates on agent-client …
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has issued a sweeping call for states to dismantle what it calls a “regulatory tax” on homebuilding. In its latest report, HUD argues that fees—ranging from impact charges to permit surcharges—alongside byzantine building codes and …
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (TSX: CM) and Citizens Bank, a unit of Citizens Financial Group Inc. (NYSE: CFG), have jointly committed $108m in construction financing for a Fairfax apartment complex—signalling renewed confidence in Washington, DC’s beleaguered rental market. The facility, announced on 20 …
The $45m C-PACE (Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy and Resilience) loan extended by Peachtree Group to the Fellowship Wildlight project in Yulee, Florida, is more than a financing transaction—it is a bet on the state’s demographic future. With Florida’s 65-and-over population expected to swell …
Century 21 Real Estate (C21) is a global real-estate franchisor known for its gold blazers and gridiron-style brokerage model. Unlike pure-play platforms such as Compass Inc. (NYSE: CMPS), C21 operates as a franchisor with more than 14,000 offices worldwide, generatingRevenueprimarily throughFranchisefees and technology licensing. …
A legislative pivot for America’s rental housing crunch
Enterprise agents are languishing in pilot purgatory—not because the underlying models are deficient, but because frontline staff refuse to rely on them. ICMI’s 2026 analysis—based on surveys of 1,200 contact-centre agents—finds that 67% of respondents admit they “work around” AI tools rather than incorporate …
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