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Property and market reporting
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Broker operating on West Coast says midterm election results won’t impact housing market
Troy Reierson discusses housing affordability, mortgage rates, brokerage consolidation and market conditions in Las Vegas, Southern California and Arizona.
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Florida Voters Just Cut Nearly $12 Billion a Year in Property Taxes. Landlords May Help Pay for It.
Florida’s expanded homestead exemption and lower non-homestead assessment cap leave owners watching implementation, local tax rates and post-sale assessment resets.
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Compass and Rate Just Built a Top-10 Lender. The Next Fight Is Over Your Buyer’s Loan.
Compass and Rate combine Guaranteed Rate Affinity and OriginPoint under the OriginPoint name, with 672 loan officers and a projected $13.2 billion in 2026 volume.
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California Just Approved $25 Billion for Down Payments. The Homes Don’t Exist Yet.
California voters approve Proposition 37’s new-home down payment bond authority, while loan rates, terms, implementation and eligible supply remain unresolved.
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Brookfield’s $600 Million LA Tower Is 95% Full. It’s Walking Away Anyway.
Brookfield gives up Los Angeles’s Beaudry tower rather than refinance about $360 million of debt, despite reported occupancy of 95% at the 785-unit building.
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One Lost Lawsuit, $541 Million in Claims. ZOM Just Filed for Chapter 11.
ZOM Holding and two affiliates file Chapter 11 after an Arizona judgment, seeking to continue an appeal; the operating apartment properties are outside the filing.
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Houston’s Biggest Industrial Campus Just Sold. Nobody Is Saying for How Much.
Adkisson Group and PCCP buy Houston’s 64-building Northwoods Industrial Park, a 2.7 million-square-foot campus that is 98% leased; the price was undisclosed.
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Your Brokerage Bought AI. Did Anyone Check What It’s Telling Clients?
Opinion: Maya Brooks urges brokerages to assign reviewers, verify AI communications and property images, protect client data and examine insurance coverage.
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Los Angeles Said a Golf Course Was Mountain Lion Habitat. That Call Could Now Cost It $20 Million.
Los Angeles faces a threatened lawsuit over its rejection of a 398-home fast-track plan at Woodland Hills Country Club; no fine or judgment has been imposed.
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Las Vegas Has the Lowest CMBS Distress of Any Big Metro. A $98 Million Apartment Loan Just Slipped Anyway.
Las Vegas posts a low CMBS distress rate, while Tides at Wynn Palms loans in a separate CRE CLO pool move to special servicing, underscoring refinance risk.
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This Indianapolis Data Center Would Bring 21 Jobs. It Wants $113 Million in Tax Breaks.
DC BLOX seeks an estimated $113 million in Indianapolis tax abatements for a proposed data center with 21 permanent jobs; council review and terms remain pending.
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