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Nearly three quarters (71%) of professional property investors plan to invest in Build to Rent developments, Handelsbanken’s fifth annual Property Investor Report reveals, despite a sharp fall in the number of new BTR homes starting construction. Handelsbanken’s research found almost two thirds (63%) plan to increase their exposure to houses over the next 12 months,…
Short-term borrowing costs are likely to stay firm while lower-rated non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) could face wider credit spreads as investors remain selective, India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra) said. Rising commodity prices and softer operating margins could increase corporate funding needs, driving greater use of bank credit lines and commercial paper. This is expected…
There’s a lot riding on your Social Security claiming decision. If you wait to file until you reach full retirement age, which is 67 if you were born in 1960 or later, you’ll get to collect your monthly benefits in full. If you file early, which you can do starting at 62, your benefits will…
Americans are increasingly relocating from areas with a high risk of poor air quality, although the rate of this movement has slowed compared to the pandemic period, as indicated by a recent report from Redfin. Data showed that in 2025, there was a net outflow of 277,740 individuals from high-risk U.S. counties, a figure that…
12:10 AM, 2nd September 2026, 2 hours ago Guarantor reliance for tenants has doubled in the last 18 months as landlords look for greater financial security. Data from HomeLet reveals the share of accepted applications requiring a guarantor has risen from around 9% in January 2025 to 18.4% in July 2026, with almost one in…
Amir Nurani, broker-owner at Left Coast Leaders in California, told Mortgage Professional America in April that the current environment represents normalcy, not an aberration. “I think the current rate environment where we’re in the high-5s or low-6s, those are normalized rates for conventional mortgages,” Nurani said. “Those are not high rates. We’re going to be in…
Trading in Turkish lira against the yen reached 666,619 contracts on Tokyo Financial Exchange’s Click 365 in August, up 235.4% from a year earlier. TRY/JPY ranked first by contract count for a fifth consecutive month, while the Mexican peso, South African rand and Hungarian forint also remained ahead of the euro and pound on the…
Half of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck and nearly three in four expect no change a year from now, according to a survey of 1,000 adults published in August by Clever Real Estate, a nationwide real estate company. For mortgage brokers, the findings map a financial fault line running directly through the…
OpenAI to launch new AI model Astra ‘soon,’ CEO Altman says
Every company in tech watches out for OpenAI. SB Energy can’t look away. The data center developer filed its prospectus to go public on Monday, and it’s uniquely intertwined with the AI lab behind ChatGPT, according to figures from the new filing. Everywhere SB Energy turns, there’s OpenAI: leasing data center capacity, owning billions of…