This Week’s Short Stories

This Week’s Short Stories

Wealthy of the World Real Estate Holdings Reported

While the European rich hold 31% of their wealth in real estate, in America it’s 19% or private wealth invested in real estate. U.S. wealthy have $5,328 billion of $27,770 billion in real estate.

January 10 New Mortgage Rules
Lower income home buyers could have more problems going forward due to new mortgage rules just implemented. Now a Qualified Mortgage must meet three requirements:
• Lenders must do more to assess the borrower’s ability to repay the loan. In general, the debt-to-income ratio must also be 43% or less.
• Make loans easier to understand and not hide risky features like negative amortization or interest-only payments.
• Points and fees are being limited. Any loan over $100,000 can’t have more than 3% in points and fees.

Buy a Home with Bitcoins
The New York real estate brokerage Bond New York has announced that they will accept Bitcoins for real estate transactions.

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