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The California Real Estate Rollercoaster
By Brian S. Icenhower · 13 years ago
The year 2010 brings to a close one of the most volatile decades in the history of the California real estate industry. Median home prices increased at an unprecedented rate to all-time highs five years ...
Loan Modifications: More Harm than Good?
By Brian S. Icenhower · 14 years ago
In 2009, millions of United States homeowners learned that modifying their existing home loans served only to expedite foreclosure rather than prevent it. A U.S. Treasury report released in early December of 2009 revealed that ...
Investing in Foreclosure and REO Properties
By Brian S. Icenhower · 15 years ago
The investment quandary as to the best method for acquiring foreclosed property at heavily discounted prices inevitably surfaces at the same stage in the real estate cycle every ten to twenty years. After housing booms ...
The Glass-Steagall Act’s loss is the Community Reinvestment Act’s Gain
By Brian S. Icenhower · 15 years ago
The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) of 1999, repealed the portion of the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 that prohibited banks from consolidating with investment houses while the GLBA also expanded the influence of the Community Reinvestment Act ...
A New Direction for Senior Housing
By Brian S. Icenhower · 15 years ago
Home builders are currently facing a rapidly emerging demographic that has forced the housing industry to begin shifting away from traditional forms of real estate development into methods that cater specifically to the needs of ...
Mortgage-Backed In-Securities
By Brian S. Icenhower · 15 years ago
With 2008 having been an election year, it has been convenient to levy all blame for our country’s current economic condition on our nation’s presidential administration for the last eight years. However, a significant portion ...