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James Rodriguez

James Rodriguez

Real Estate Reporter at Insider

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James Rodriguez
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Home flippers are about to get hammered

Home flipping is luring new investors with promises of financial freedom. But a housing correction could leave some of them broken and bankrupt.
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A major investor who owns 40,000 rental homes can’t find enough new...

One of the nation’s largest owners of rental homes will use modular construction to create new supply amid a national housing shortage.
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How an Oregon resident secured $150,000 for his small business by s...

A number of companies are offering homeowners cash in exchange for a piece of their home equity, a deal that Wall Street is pitching as a win-win.
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Big investors like Bain Capital and Redwood Trust are buying up sta...

US homeowners have never been richer — at least on paper. Investing in all that home equity has become one of the hottest plays in real estate.
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How One Couple Cashed in on Airbnbs Near Elon Musk's SpaceX Site - ...

Airbnb investors are flocking to South Texas, where they see a chance to capitalize on relatively cheap homes and proximity to Musk’s SpaceX.
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Opendoor is staring down losses after once boasting it wouldn’t rep...

A year after Zillow’s home-flipping business flamed out in stunning fashion, Opendoor is battling its own challenges as the housing market cools.
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Home flippers are finally feeling the pain. Now they’re slashing pr...

Experts warned in the spring that home flippers could face trouble if the housing market were to suddenly cool. That’s exactly what happened.

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Homebuyers battling high mortgage rates could soon have a new optio...

A handful of startups believe they can overcome slim margins and regulatory barriers to bring down-payment help to the masses.
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A controversial fix for America’s housing market: more foreclosures

Lenders need to make it easier for people with lousy credit to get a mortgage and buy a home — though that will result in more foreclosures.
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Remote work will lead to cheaper housing and home, rent price decli...

Highly-paid remote workers drove up house prices during the pandemic. But they’re flocking to cities where it’s easier to build cheaper homes.
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Lawsuit Against Real Estate Brokerages, Realtors Will Reshape ... -...

On Tuesday afternoon at a courthouse in Kansas City, Missouri, the collective nightmare of the real-estate industry became reality.For decades, the basic structure of how real-estate agents get paid when they help someone buy or sell their home has remained roughly the same. But over the past few years, some of the most powerful organizations in the business — the National Association of Realtors and several of the country’s largest brokerages — have been fighting two multibillion-dollar class-a…