People are familiar with some name brand architecture designs like “Spanish Mission” and “midcentury modern,” but most people aren’t that familiar with “brutalist design.” Notwithstanding its odd name, brutalist design can be foun...
During the course of this pandemic, there has been one impressive constant; the housing market has been surprisingly resilient in the midst of a turbulent economic storm. Notwithstanding unemployment numbers we haven’t seen since the Great De...
As a general rule, interest rates on 30-year fixed rate mortgages (“FRMs”) are inversely correlated to the amount of uncertainty in the economy; obviously, there are limits to that. Given the massive economic uncertainty over the last 7 mon...
Trying to get your dream home is a lot like trying to get your dream job. If what you’re going after is truly exceptional (which most dreams are), it’s unlikely that you’re the only one trying to get it; you’ve got to make yourself stan...
On Monday, July 13, 2020 Governor Newsom reinstated numerous COVID-19 restrictions across the state and singled out Los Angeles County (among others) for even more stringent restriction. On Tuesday, July 14, 2020 Mayor Garcetti indicated Los An...
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (“CARES”) has provided 180 days of mortgage forbearance (pause in payments) for individuals who received loans backed by the federal government or other government-sponsored entities. A...
An unanticipated effect of COVID-19’s impact on the United States is that it has forced society-at-large to rethink everyday life. Major metropolitans all but shut down, and many companies were forced to explore the viability of having a mass...
A little-known fact about the housing market is that foreign purchase of residential properties is a substantial force in the market from coast-to-coast. In fact, overseas real estate investments rose as high as $153B between 2011 and 2017; app...
Despite current unemployment numbers, the economy is showing signs of life. To be clear, there is still a long way to go, but roughly 5 million Americans returned to work in the month of June. With several million people returning to work, come...
When COVID-19 landed on our shores and the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) extended the tax filing deadline to July 15, 2020, very few of us thought we would still be in the grips of a pandemic that only seems to be getting worse. Unfortun...
