Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2023

The federal Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program is a powerful tool to help low-income families find apartments they can afford, but the program isn’t reaching its potential because far too few landlords participate in it. Why don’t landlords participate?

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Inman

JANUARY 7, 2025

Greystar Real Estate Partners, Blackstones LivCor and Cushman & Wakefield are among the institutional landlords accused of fixing rental prices to the detriment of "millions" of renters.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2025

For those who think being an independent landlord is easy, congratulations youre wrong. Finding the best tenant is an uphill battle for some landlords. How can landlords simplify operations and still turn a profit? Landlords can do that themselves with the right tools. The challenges mount from the jump.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Freddie Mac wants to encourage multifamily landlords to report positive rental payments to the credit bureaus to give renters a better shot at qualifying for a mortgage. Esusu, a credit-building fintech, will deliver the on-time rental payment reports from landlords’ property management software to the credit bureaus.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 29, 2024

Largely nonprofits, mission-based landlords provide affordable housing as a tool for systemic change, including advancing racial equity, reducing economic disparities, and strengthening community resiliency. Most importantly, mission-based landlords are committed to keep residents housed.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Instead of cutting rents, some landlords prefer to throw in one-time concessions to attract renters as vacancies rise, according to a new report from Redfin. In such a context, landlords have more vacancies to fill and less leeway to raise prices. “A year ago, you really didn’t see concessions in the market. a year earlier.

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 6, 2025

However, the majority of renters lack access to legal aid that could enable them to defend against wrongful evictions or come to more amicable agreements with landlords. Tenants who are evicted, particularly children, suffer serious long-term repercussions.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2025

” Kalin closed his session with tailored advice for agents who are assisting landlords, buyers, and tenants with wildfire recovery. Landlords cannot raise rents by more than 10% until then. The property owner needs to consider that nothing will return to being exactly the way it was before.”

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

A problem with that data so far, Burns said, is that it is difficult to distinguish large institutional buyers from mom-and-pop landlords with a handful of properties, or even how many are single buyers simply purchasing a vacation home. Burns concedes he is still working with the data and, at this point, only has a working hypothesis.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2025

He bought it from an outside landlord who didnt have the local market knowledge or presence needed for property management. New marketplace for motivated sellers That is good news for sellers like Ricardo Sims, the out-of-state landlord who sold the Montgomery properties to Richards via SmartSale.

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 16, 2025

Sending digital payouts to tenants by email reduces delivery issues experienced by the landlord that result from having an incorrect forwarding address. These errors led to inconvenience for renters, including having to spend time getting the mistake resolvedand 79% said they would avoid renting from the erring landlord again.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2025

We’re seeing several landlords have increased their rents by 50%. And there are situations where the renter will pay six months in advance or nine months in advance, and now the landlord has to reimburse, and if they don’t, there’s some problems. “And it could even be higher.

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Inman

MARCH 13, 2025

Regular property inspections, transparent policies, and a willingness to address concerns create a foundation of trust between landlords and renters, Ryan Barone writes.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Business Dynamic Statistics data reveal that 2021 was a year of major growth for homebuilders but steep contraction for landlords (called “lessors” in the BDS). Lessors The picture was far less rosy for real estate lessors (typically landlords and real estate investment trusts ) in 2021.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The company was evicted in May from its office in Southern California, with the landlord seeking unpaid rent of more than $530,000. A consent order signed by a Connecticut banking commissioner said that LoanSnap failed to notify the Nationwide Multistate Licensing System (NMLS) that its main address had changed.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Telecom assets including macro towers and small cells have long served as a source of recurring revenue for real estate owners and landlords. Generally, the carrier agrees to pay the property owner or landlord monthly rent for use of land or space upon a building.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2025

An announcement from the company on Thursday also offered any agent, owner or landlord working with displaced residents that it would refund any application fees. The company shared that it will refund application fees for individuals who need to rent property after damage and/or displacement due to the fires.

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 2, 2025

Impact of Mom-and-Pop Investors The report highlights the significant role of small-scale investors, often referred to as mom-and-pop landlords. Despite the slowdown, lower-priced homes remain a battleground for competition between first-time buyers and investors.

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Housing Wire

JULY 15, 2024

The proposal will rescind unspecified tax breaks to landlords who raise rents by more than 5%, although it would only apply to landlords who own more than 50 rental units. Landlords can receive a number of federal tax deductions. This would cover roughly half of all rental units in the country, according to Post sources.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2024

The DOJ filed a civil suit against RealPage on Friday, claiming that the company’s YieldStar and AI revenue management (AIRM) software allowed multifamily landlords to artificially inflate rents through the sharing of private information. A DOJ official said that additional landlord defendants could be added to the complaint in the future.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 8, 2024

But as many as 200 real estate agents , brokerage firms and landlords are alleged to have violated this law by discriminating against applicants with federally subsidized Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers, according to an undercover investigation conducted by the Housing Rights Initiative (HRI). ”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 28, 2021

Still, federal law does not prevent landlords from rejecting all housing vouchers. The Department of Housing and Urban Development attempted to crack down on landlord discrimination back in 2018. Christopher Roberts, Zillow senior vice president and general manager of Zillow Rentals, said 49.3%

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

Invitation Homes , the nation’s largest single-family rental landlord, has reached a settlement to address accusations it violated California ‘s “rent gouging” laws, the state’s Attorney General Rob Bonta announced on Monday. million in civil penalties. Californians are facing a housing crisis of epic proportion.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 29, 2025

The attorney generals office said that the California DOJ has sent over 650 price gouging warning letters to hotels and landlords. In that investigation, the California DOJ found that after a couple applied to rent a home, they were informed that the price had increased by 38%. The price gouging restrictions remain in effect until March 8.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2024

rental sector has benefitted most landlords in this country, from larger multifamily investors to smaller mom-and-pop owners. in addition to intentional property investors, the number of so-called “accidental landlords” has also been increasing since 2018, according to research from TenantCloud. The strength of the U.S.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 11, 2020

The company partners with institutional landlords, who then offer it to their tenants. The company plans to use the new capital mainly to grow its platform and increase adoption by landlords and renters nationwide. Till launched the analytics-driven platform in April with the goal of reducing evictions by as much as 50 percent.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 23, 2020

31, but the FHFA has extended that till March 31, 2021, provided landlords are also extending benefits to their renters. A recent report by the Urban Institute found that approximately 12% of landlords with mortgages are in forbearances. Of those landlords, 20% are Black and 14% are Hispanic, while 9% are white.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

RENTmaximizer effectively outsources the management of rental pricing from a landlord to Yardi itself, which then implements higher prices collectively across a group of landlords,” the lawsuit alleged. By 2013, the software was used to price 8 million residential units, attorneys for the plaintiffs argued.

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Appraisal Buzz

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Under a lease-purchase arrangement, the property seller also acts as the landlord. For example, the sellers, usually also the landlords, are generally responsible for keeping the property safe and livable for tenants. During the rental period, lease-purchase agreements tend to be governed by state landlord-tenant laws.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Among renters, the top dislikes listed were unexpected rent increases (30%) and dealing with landlords (21%). !function(e,n,i,s){var And while poll respondents rented or owned, many felt that owning a home is the dream for most Americans, as 34% of homeowners most dislike the cost of maintenance or repairs, while 33% cite property taxes.

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Inman

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Becoming a landlord can be a promising avenue for generating passive income and building wealth — but it's not without challenges.

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Inman

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

RentRedi CEO Ryan Barone writes that from smart home enhancements to mobile-friendly tech service that streamlines the rental process, technology is the key to helping college-town landlords thrive in today's market.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 4, 2024

HB 404 will: Require that landlords ensure that residential rental property is “fit for human habitation.” Require a brief pause of three business days after the landlord tells the tenant to leave due to late rent payment before they can file for an eviction.

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Inman

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Landlord Genetta Hull filed eviction papers in September alleging that Dolton Mayor Tiffany Henyard and her roommate, Kamal Woods, owe more than $3,350 in rent and late fees on her property.

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Housing Wire

JULY 16, 2024

The platform provides tools for both landlords and renters, which the company said is designed to automate and streamline the management process. “As The National Association of Realtors is adding another partnership to its NAR Realtor Benefits Program.

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 9, 2025

HUDs final rule will: Reduce unnecessary burden on grantees and beneficiaries by streamlining income determinations; Simplify HOME rental housing requirements, making it easier to use HOME for small rental housing projects; Better align HOME with LIHTC and other federal funding; Simplifying tenant-based rental assistance (TBRA) and making HOME TBRA (..)

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Inman

MARCH 13, 2024

The sheriff has been ordered to arrest a landlord twice named worst in New York City and bring him to Rikers Island for up to 60 days over hundreds of building violations.

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