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In This Article Foreword by Dave Meyer In a new era of real estate investing, the old rules of thumb no longer work. Back in the day of cheap homes and high rents, you could confidently use rent-to-price ratios (one month of rent divided by the purchase price) to estimate cash flow. If you hit…

Mortgage rates climbed to a near 18-month high this week as the average rate on a 30-year fixed home loan jumped 19 basis points to 6.95% for the week ending Sept. 17, moving up from 6.76% the previous week to reach its highest level since January 2025, according to Freddie Mac. Driven upward by spiking…

Giving Peace (And Bonds?) a Chance 3 Hours, 19 Min ago Giving Peace (And Bonds?) a Chance Granted, it may be far less promising than some of the more conclusive headlines that led up to previous ceasefires and peace memos, but Tuesday delivered at least a modicum of hope that war sentiment…

“Now more than ever it’s so important for people to use a mortgage broker rather than their bank, because the banks are specifically just focusing on rates. As we head into a turbulent time where potentially we will see an increase in rates, the banks are putting clients in, say, a variable rate, which may…

However, optimism is tempered by a demand for urgency. Sixty-six percent have already adjusted prices to account for some or all tariff costs, and 67% say regulatory requirements have created institutional gridlock, delaying projects and deterring investment. Regulatory gridlock straining housing supply For mortgage brokers, those figures carry direct consequences. Regulatory red tape has been driving…

The rapid growth of AI data centers is creating a shortage of the memory chips used in everyday devices like laptops, phones, cameras, and gaming consoles. The world’s three largest memory chipmakers — SK Hynix, Samsung, and Micron — are shifting production to High Bandwidth Memory, specialized microchips that power AI data centers, rather than…