Month: September 2020

Economic Security Planning, Inc. Today’s column addresses questions about receiving spousal benefits after receiving retirement benefits, whether it’s possible to reduce a benefit amount to remain under a limit and applying for disability benefits while working and receiving survivor’s benefits. Larry Kotlikoff is a Professor of Economics at Boston University and the founder and president
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Committee for Greater LA report, “No Going Back,” calls for fighting inequality and racism as … [+] response to pandemic. Committee for Greater LA Six months into the Covid pandemic, many people are asking when we can “return to normal.”  But a remarkable new report “No Going Back:  Together for an Equitable and Inclusive Los Angeles” rejects that
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Dave Panozzo is the co-founding owner of The Panozzo Team-HomeSmart, a real estate team in Phoenix, Arizona. getty The past year came with its own unique set of challenges. With every day seeming more apocalyptic than the next, real estate agents across the U.S. have been forced to find new ways to make a sale. In-person
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Co-founder at Brevitas.com, Commercial Real Estate Marketplace and Platform Partner of the National Association of REALTORS® getty Real estate listings are pushed all throughout the internet. Syndications, MLS feeds and APIs have created a network of sites that can pull in real estate information from all over. That’s mostly thanks to the MLSs throughout the country
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California’s ultra luxury market is hot in Southern California getty In April when COVID hit California’s real estate market hard, I reached out to San Francisco-based Compass California President Mark McLaughlin and CoreLogic’s CLGX Deputy Chief Economist Selma Hepp, Ph.D. for their expert insights. Once again, we discuss market fundaments, as we move into Fall
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Levent Künzi is Co-Founder and CEO of Properti, a tech-driven real estate company dedicated to modernizing residential real estate in Europe getty According to CB Insights, global investment in proptech businesses and real estate startups reached $8.9 billion USD in 2019, far above the $1.7 billion in investment just four years earlier. This global trend of investing
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TikTok logo displayed on a phone screen is seen with Walmart logo in the background in this illustration photo taken on September 21, 2020. Jakub Porzycki | NurPhoto | Getty Images Brick-and-mortar giant Walmart may seem like an odd match for TikTok, an algorithm-driven social platform known for hosting memes and viral dance challenges. But a
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