Housing, rates, bitcoin and more: Larry Berman's 2018 market outlook

The other major issue is rising rates and real estate. Real estate has been the single biggest positive in recent years for Canada's GDP (outside of government deficits). We see Canadian rates moving up with U.S. rates in 2018 unless NAFTA is broken by the Trump administration, which we expect we
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Pier Carlo Padoan, Italy's finance minister, warned against efforts to tighten eurozone banking rules as he fended off criticism that the centre-left government had mishandled the country's financial difficulties. Speaking at a testy parliamentary hearing on Monday, Mr Padoan said Italy had benefited from
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A last-minute change to the tax cut package barreling through Congress gives a break to people including President Trump and key last-minute supporter Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker, who each own millions worth of income-producing real estate. Corker, a Tennessee Republican, announced his
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As we count down the days until Christmas, the new year and the end of 2017, HousingWire is beginning to look at our year in review. As we did, we decided to share with you some of the most popular articles to reach our readers this year. Some of them might surprise you – I know they surprised me!
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After Bitcoin's record month in December, there's a new cryptocurrency making headlines. Startup block.one is selling EOS, a “digital token” that it claims has “no purpose.” While it doesn't have a purpose, it does have a ton of cash. The company has raised around $700 million in sales of the token, with
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Following the global financial crisis and a pullback among banks from small business (SMB) lending, some jurisdictions have recently begun introducing new initiatives to entice competition in the space. That may come in the form of regulations that ease access to banking licenses or legislation like
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Judi Desiderio was a mid-island Phys Ed teacher and amateur athlete when she decided to change her life and try real estate. She found her calling, getting her broker's license, becoming her agency's top producer; leaving after a buy-out; then founding her own agency, Town and Country Real Estate.
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In order to answer this question, Lemon teamed up with TRI Pointe Homes Northern California division president Jeff Frankel to create a business plan for a then-hypothetical Sacramento division. As Lemon and Frankel developed the proposal, they immersed themselves in Sacramento and its market
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On Monday, December 11, we opened our doors to a brand new, full-service banking center at 119 West High Street in Orrville. This center offers all the services customers expect including day-to-day banking center transactions, home lending, personal loans, business loans, and additionally trust and
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Coldwell Banker Real Estate, for one, is enjoying enterprise voice capabilities after creating two Amazon Alexa “Skills.” The Coldwell Banker Gen Blue News Skill provides real estate professionals with company news as well as real estate industry trends. The other Skill, released in the summer of 2017,
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The financial market mania over digital currencies isn't limited to digital currency prices, it appears. A tiny startup focused on financial tech called Longfin has seen its stock price skyrocket since it started trading last week. Longfin, based in New York, started trading on the Nasdaq last week at $5.
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The president of the South Central Kansas Multiple Listing Service says the area is likely to have seller's housing market well into 2018. Jon Quincy, also a broker with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices PenFed Realty, says he wasn't surprised that the service's report for the month of November
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A measure that could benefit Americans with real estate income “was not airdropped,” White House legislative director Marc Short says. The House and Senate get ready to vote this week on final tax legislation, which blended the bills that passed each chamber of Congress. “Not everyone got everything
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ROME, Dec 18 (Reuters) – The Bank of Italy could have done a better job supervising the banking sector while many lenders collapsed and thousands of savers lost their money, Economy Minister Pier Carlo Padoan said on Monday. Padoan, who has no party affiliation, also embarrassed the ruling
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The Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN) has approved N360 million loan for 451 civil servants of Adamawa, an official has said. The Executive Director, Loans and Mortgage Services of the bank, Rahimatu Aliyu, disclosed this in Yola on Monday at the presentation of cheques to beneficiaries of
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In the last couple of days, a rumor has swirled around the tax world that a special last minute windfall was given to real estate in the new tax reform conference report. The idea was planted by David Sirota, a liberal writer/activist that used to work for Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont. It's already been
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Invesco Mortgage Capital Inc. (IVR) have shown a high EPS growth of -9.30% in the last 5 years and has earnings rose of 170.10% yoy. Analysts have a mean recommendation of 2.50 on this stock (A rating of less than 2 means buy, “hold” within the 3 range, “sell” within the 4 range, and “strong sell”
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“It's a transformational move that will shift our center of gravity,” Morrison told Fortune. The Snyder's-Lance deal creates a $5 billion snacking business within Campbell, which would make up nearly half of the company's net sales. The softer soup business would fall to about a quarter of the business.
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RICHMOND, Va. – A reverse mortgage is a special mortgage, that can turn a portion of the equity in your home to cash. Reverse Mortgage Director Brad Friedman stopped by our studio recently to fill us in on how Reverse Mortgage can help earn you a little extra income. For more information you can
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In this highly competitive environment, banking companies are relying on marketing techniques to improve campaign effectiveness and enhance returns on their marketing investment. With an aim to stay relevant in the market, investment bankers are turning toward marketing mix modeling to improve
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