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Lead Story…. When I graduated college in 2001, I did not immediately enter the wonderful world of real estate finance. I had worked as an intern for an investment bank in London while an undergrad and wanted to return full time upon graduation. Being a naive college kid, I foolishly put all of my eggs in […]
Lead Story…. I’ve used the past few Landmark Links lead stories to talk about tax reform in general and it’s impact on the real estate market in particular. Last Friday’s post focused on how proposed (now passed in the House) reforms favor commercial real estate investment over home ownership. I ended that post by suggesting […]
Lead Story…. I’ve spent the last couple of weeks writing about how challenging it is to accomplish substantial, positive tax reform and also noting how the current proposal would have substantial negative effects on an already un-affordable housing market – especially in major west coast cities. Today, I want to take a look at this […]
Lead Story….. This is the final post of a three part series that I’m writing about “the middle class,” tax reform and why it is so difficult to achieve in today’s environment. Primum non nocere is a Latin phrase that means “first, do no harm.” It is often incorrectly attributed to the Hippocratic Oath which many medical school students […]
Lead Story…. This is Part II of a three part series that I’m writing about “the middle class,” tax reform and why it is so difficult to achieve in today’s environment. My post on Tuesday of this week focused on how it’s essentially become impossible to craft policy to benefit the middle class on a nationwide […]
Lead Story…. This is Part I of a three part series that I’m writing about tax reform and why it is so difficult to achieve in today’s environment. There is a new tax reform proposal making it’s way around Washington which means that the silly season for misinformed statements about what constitutes “the middle class” is […]
Lead Story…. The topic of affordable and entry level housing have probably consumed more pages than just about any other topic since I started writing Landmark Links a couple of years ago. The challenge that we face is daunting. In a normally functioning housing market, yesterday’s executive housing stock becomes today’s entry-level housing. This relationship […]