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Report: eCommerce Growth Drives Need For New Warehouse Space
July 09, 2020

The United States will need 1 billion additional square feet of warehouse space by 2025 due to the fast growth of eCommerce, according to a new report by real estate consultancy JLL. Among the key findings in the JLL report were that need for fulfillment...

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Pending Home Sales Down In May YOY, But Rose From Last Month
June 29, 2020

Pending home sales continue to be sluggish, according to year-over-year data from the National Association of Realtors (NAR). The Pending Home Sales Index, an advance look at home sales based on signed purchase and sale agreements, fell 5.1 percent in May compared to the same...

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How ‘Self-Touring’ And Digital Lockboxes Can Change Real Estate Rentals
June 26, 2020

The pandemic has the potential to change the way any number of business verticals operate — especially industries like real estate, which typically have been based on in-person meetings and tours between property owners or real estate agents and would-be renters or homebuyers. That model...

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Platforms And AI Are Powering Real Estate Investing’s Digital 3.0 Shift
June 25, 2020

Stock markets are whipsawing. Bond yields, gyrating. Crypto? Bouncing around, to put it mildly. The pandemic has sent any number of investments tumbling, soaring, then tumbling again. The world feels less than stable, and so do investors’ cash flows, dividend and account statements. It makes...

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Helping Homeowners Access Home Equity Without Debt
June 25, 2020

When it comes to purchasing a home or attempting to take equity out of a home in cash form — there aren’t an awful lot of options. Debt, by and large, is the option the vast majority of consumers have. And this, Unison CEO Thomas...

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Brookfield Delays Payments While Asking Tenants To Pay Up
June 22, 2020

Asset manager Brookfield, which owns stakes in numerous malls, is demanding retailers pay back rent even as the Toronto-based investment group has missed mortgage payments, the Financial Times reported Sunday (June 21). Merchants who lease kiosks and small stores inside Brookfield malls have been told...

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Redfin On The US Housing Market’s Great Snapback (For Now)
June 12, 2020

For housing, the great snapback? As stock markets whipsaw (the Dow was off more 6 percent on Thursday), as the Federal Reserve sees mid-single-digit economic contractions and unemployment remains at double-digit percentages, the homebuying market has decided to shake it all off. Redfin reported last...

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New Manhattan Residential Listings Up, New Leases Plunge In May
June 11, 2020

It’s the perfect time to lease a New York City apartment as vacancies rose, causing rental listings to jump, CNBC reported. New York City’s rental market continued to lose ground in May due to the pandemic as residents fled the Big Apple and the real...

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Is Data Aggregation The Key To Banking’s Future?
June 09, 2020

The pandemic is spurring new opportunities for financial institutions (FIs) of all sizes to improve the range of services they deliver to end users amid the continuing shift to digital. To that end, in an interview with PYMNTS, Kevin Hughes, aggregation product manager at Fiserv,...