Where The Jobs Are (Arizona, Nevada & Florida, Among Others?)
In today’s Forbes Magazine (9/26/2011), there is an infomative section on jobs titled “Where The Jobs Are” (starting on page 105 and edited by Michael Noer with Christian Wolan) . On the next page (106) there is a statistic by Christian Wolan.
It is titled “Land of Opportunity” and a subtitle “There Are Jobs To Be Had In [...]
WSJ: Big Money Chases Single Family Home Rentals.
In an article in the Wall Street Journal, dated August 4th, by Robbie Whelan, we learn that the message we at ICG have been repeating for the past 25 years has now caught on with the “Big Money”. Hedge funds, REITs and other big-scale investors are rushing in to accumulate the best investment for 2011: Single Family [...]
MERS Is In Trouble - What Does It Mean To Investors?
An interesting article in the New York Times by Michael Powell and Gretchen Morgenson under the heading “MERS? It May Have Swallowed Your Loan”, from 3/5/2011, Discusses the legal challenges that MERS is facing in many courts related to foreclosure activities. MERS stands for Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, which is essentially a registry for ownership [...]
The Right Way to Modify Loans?
It is now widely acknowledged that the HAMP program has failed to make a dent in alleviating the need for affordable mortgage modifications nationwide.
Many now call for it go away.
Some of the HAMP program’s failures have to do with the avalanche of paperwork needed for the borrowers to qualify. People applying for the program were [...]
Berkeley Finance Conference 2009
For those of you that may be interested in attending, I have been invited to be on a real estate experts’ panel at the Berkeley Finance Conference 2009 at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.
The conference theme is “Recovery - What will it be like?”
It will be on Friday November 13th. The real [...]
