All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Residential Market Trends

No matter the price or terms of the B of A-Countrywide transaction, you’ve now got a combo that dominates the market in a way that looks like GM/Ford/Chrysler in the auto industry. In a business that was traditionally fragmented, twenty years of Wall Street activity in the era of the PC has rolled...

BRITAIN HAS ALREADY BEEN where America is about to go: a seriously declining real estate market. The British have been there, done it, experienced the terrible damage it did, and lived to tell the tale as the market recovered. Not only that, then started the same process all over again. Boom has again...

The referendum to change Florida's property tax system will most likely be defeated. Why? For the average homeowner, tax savings will amount to $240.00 in 2008. While taxes have increased 200-300% for second home and business owners, only pocket change has been offered as a savings. The same week Florida's...

The new trend of Korea housing market

The German requirement of solar and other forms of renewable energy in new residential construction is another leadership effort by the world's largest wind and photovoltaic nation.  It is part of a growing trend by primarily European countries to require solar in new and substantially rehabilitated...

Chinese property markets have grown at a tremendous rate over the last 5 years and the government regulator has made great efforts to slow things down to more manageable levels. The implications of a Chinese property crash are unthinkable but not unimaginable and there have been many recent articles...

Short term solutions creat long-term problems. This is only one of the issues. 2008 is going to be a real test for the USA economy.

The downturn in the housing market has made banks reluctant to sink money into anything related to real estate and foreclosures are on the rise. U.S. banks and thrifts may have good reason to be concerned about lending as provisions for loan losses rose in 3Q07 and banks set aside $16.6 billion to cover...

Will the abandonment of mortgage defaulted properties create opportunites for tax debt investors? What innovations may be on the horizon to address the anticipated loss of property tax revenue to the nation's cities & counties?  Will tax certificate sales become the method of choice for recovering...

The idea of having politicians involved in the solution of any problem of economics is,admittedly,frightening.  However,congrats and kudos are in order for those members of the Florida Legislature which crafted the concept of real estate tax "portability" and,further,put forth the idea...