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Real estate investors say they’ll expand portfolios, make home improvements in 2025

Housing Wire

The findings indicate strong confidence in the rental housing market, with landlords prioritizing long-term growth and profitability despite economic and regulatory challenges. Landlords in the Northeast are the most committed to renovations, with 60% planning to spend $5,000-plus per property. A majority of U.S.

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Solving the Affordable Housing Crisis

Appraisal Buzz

New owners used their cost savings to renovate and undercut our rent rates. This experience taught me a crucial lesson: in real estate, you must always be prepared for market shifts (because it ALWAYS shifts). Opportunities: Creating a more stable and affordable housing market in the long term.

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2025 Office-to-Apartment Conversions Hit Record Highs 

Appraisal Buzz

This increase coincides with fierce competition among tenants and a widespread lack of rental flats. It seems the Big Apple seems to stay on some sort of list when it comes to the housing market, doesnt it? In a similar vein, the Housing in Downtown initiative in Washington, D.C., Washington, D.C., Washington, D.C.

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Opinion: More financing options for ADUs are needed

Housing Wire

In the ongoing struggle for attainable housing, one positive development has been the increased availability of funding options for homeowners seeking to incorporate Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) into their properties. Another initiative spearheaded by the Orange County Housing Finance Trust will finance construction loans up to $100,000.

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Biden unveils housing proposal that includes nationwide cap on rent increases

Housing Wire

Exemptions would be provided to new construction and units with “substantial” renovation and rehabilitation. Biden’s new plan would cap annual rent hikes at 5% for two years for landlords who manage 50 or more rental units, which the administration said would cover 20 million units, or roughly half of all rental units in the country.

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Don’t let COVID crisis mask affordable housing opportunity

Housing Wire

Every year since 2007, the rate of household formations outstripped the number of housing completions, despite relative strength in both the overall housing market and U.S. Finally, we need to renovate our existing housing stock. Regrettably, that gap has only widened since the global financial crisis.

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Wall Street SFR firms accused of stripping equity from neighborhoods

Housing Wire

And, finally, the House subcommittee reported that the “total number of tenants behind on rent and fees increased by almost two-fold [over the survey period], with tenants with rental arrears increasing from 11.3% in 2021, and the number of tenants with fee arears increasing from 10% in 2018 to 20.7% in 2018 to $205.29

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