Selling a Home? The D.C. Down Payment Assistance Program Will Give You Up to $202,000.
The city's expanded down payment assistance program is a recipe for increasing home prices.
Real estate
Is South Florida's Housing Market Too Hot?
Zoning laws, a limited housing stock, and inflation have created a major housing shortage in the bubble-prone region.
Vacant Homes Aren't Making Cities Expensive
And vacancy taxes won't make them affordable.
The Deeply Flawed Studies Behind the Eviction Moratoriums
The government and media relied on studies plagued by shoddy statistics to make the case for blocking evictions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Why Does Hollywood Hate Real Estate Developers?
The typecasting of builders as villains might help explain why NIMBYs so often win the policy battles over urban growth and development.
Does WeWork Work? Don't Write Off the Innovative Shared Office Concept Yet
Perhaps WeWork will eventually succeed in going public and in reaching profitability. Even if it doesn't, it will have paved the way for dozens of similar companies operating with variations on its co-working model
Heads Up, California: Sydney Has Figured Out How to Get the Rents Down
It's by building lots more housing, obviously.
Ben Carson's 'Oreo' Gaffe Highlights Acronym Madness at Federal Agencies
Plus: New York may ban 3D-printed guns and most Americans support Roe v. Wade.
Government Caused Housing Segregation. Do We Need More Government to Fix the Problem?
The Manhattan Institute's Howard Husock debates Economic Policy Institute's Richard Rothstein at the Soho Forum.
Bill de Blasio: 'We Will Seize Their Buildings, and We Will Put Them in the Hands of a Community Nonprofit'
NYC's mayor takes on private property (again).
Philip Payton Jr.: The Crusading Capitalist Who Outwitted New York's Racist Landlords
Best known as the "father of Harlem," he was guided by the theory that free markets penalize bigotry.
Kill the Mortgage Interest Deduction Now!
It's the worst sort of social engineering and special-interest payoff via the tax code.
Government Created the Housing Crisis. Government Can Solve It.
Suggestions from a New York real estate attorney
Trump's Lumber Tariffs Hurt Hurricane Recovery
Protectionism is a losing proposition, especially after a disaster.
New York Mayor to Property Owners: Drop Dead
De Blasio literally wants to tell people what to do with their land.
Brooklyn's Barclays Center is an Eminent Domain-Created Failure
Politicians and developers stole a neighborhood to build it, but it loses money and revitalized nothing.
Mogadishu's Real Estate Market Seeing Increase in Demand
Thanks in part to improved security situation
Richmond, CA, Plans To Seize Underwater Mortgages
Bold move to put the city itself underwater
Planned Tax Hikes Kill High-End Swiss Real Estate Market
Way to shoot your economy in the foot
Argentina's Dollar Restrictions Slam Real Estate Market
Home purchases are traditionally made in American currency
Capitalism Takes Hold in Cuba's Real Estate Market
Buying and selling property was legalized in 2011
Why Doesn't the Real Estate Industry Face the Same Scrutiny as Wall Street?
Understanding a puzzling aspect of the financial crisis and its aftermath.
French Home Prices Stall Under Tax Pressure
That's a government that knows how to shoot itself in the foot
Fed. Reserve: Flaws in Eminent Domain Mortgage Scheme
The people who are supposed to be helped have found assistance through normal, non-crazy means
Government Policy the Major Villain in Mortgage Meltdown
Feds pushed a "no down payment" policy that increased risk
One Year Later, Obama's SOTU Mortgage Promise Remains Stalled
Probably because they'd have to admit the government screwed up
Growth Controls Fueled CA Housing Bubbles, Subsequent Fiscal Crisis
Restrictions artificially fueled soaring home values, tax revenue
Study: Community Reinvestment Act Promoted Risky Lending
Banks pushed the limits of safety to satisfy the law
Banks Pay Out $22B in Mortgage Relief
Borrowers were upset over foreclosures. Well, they always are, aren't they?
Nobody Wants To Live in Hitler's Childhood House
If you're looking for a bargain and have a strong stomach ...