“I know how it feels to have your privacy invaded by photographers, whether it is in work mode or privately. So I have always been sensitive to that,” says Julian Lennon, describing the philosophy that has driven his decades-long career in photography. “I’m a fly on the wall. Nothing is staged. I don’t want to
Real Estate
If old town charm, modern luxury and outdoor living spaces are high on your wishlist, the vibrant home of “Deadliest Catch” and “Storage Wars” producer Thom Beers in the inland Mexican state of Guanajuato checks all the boxes. Set along a cobblestone street two blocks off the central plaza of the colonial-era city of San
Cofounder of InstaLend, a non-bank real estate lender providing loans on single-family and multi-family properties for acquisition and rehab. With the moratorium on foreclosures likely coming to an end soon and millions of Americans still out of the workforce and unable to make their rent or mortgage payments, we may be in for a huge uptick
For those looking to buy a home for the first time, the process can be a bit intimidating; needing to understand how a mortgage works, as well as finding the right home to purchase that one can truly afford. To help combat these issues, entrepreneur Bryan Young teamed up with Steven Better to create Home
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released a report this week showing that mortgage complaints to the government agency have risen to their highest level in three years. The CFPB received approximately 38,100 mortgage origination and servicing complaints from January 1, 2020 through March 31, 2021, which is about 5% of all complaints the CFPB
CEO and Co-Founder at Rhove. Expanding access and opportunity for everyone to invest in and own real estate. As it stands, non-accredited investors (individuals who make less than $200,000 annually and have a net worth of less than $1 million) cannot invest in the real estate that defines our cities. While it is possible to invest
Bill and Melinda Gates’ divorce announcement is likely to spark one of the largest divisions of personal assets in history. Bill Gates is presently the world’s fourth-richest person, with a $130.5 billion fortune, stemming from his $25 billion stake in Microsoft, a host of publicly traded investments and a collection of ultra-luxury properties scattered across
For some, there’s nothing better than to get away from it all; for others, even the idea of exploring the great outdoors may seem like more of a chore than a vacation. In this week’s look at luxury real estate around the world, I took a look at three properties in cities popular among outdoor
Founder and CEO of Smart Real Estate Coach, as well as host of the Smart Real Estate Coach Podcast. In my real estate coaching business, there’s a big focus on what I believe are the three necessary pillars for the entrepreneurs’ journey. The three pillars are mindset, skill set and systems. What’s interesting is that it
New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft is reportedly the buyer of a $43 million mansion in Southampton, New York, closing on what appears to be his most expensive home through a private, off-market transaction. Such closely held deals, called pocket listings, have been on the rise of late, with use of the strategy often associated
There are things you can do when a property doesn’t sell: finish major repairs, add new paint or even change up the staging. But what do you do when the property is a massive hilltop? Turn to social media, of course. On Angelo Drive in Beverly Hills, a legendary estate once home to Hollywood stars
Atticus is the CEO of PadSplit, an affordable, shared housing model that creates financial independence for workers. Ask anyone in the housing industry and they’ll tell you that they’ve been talking about a housing shortage for more than a decade. Following the housing crash, new construction decelerated dramatically, and we still aren’t close to the pace
In real estate, it’s always tempting to count your chickens before they hatch. When you’re halfway toward closing on a house, or even three quarters of the way there, you almost start thinking of the buying process as a done deal. Then complications may begin to arise, and they could even compound on one another
No one was cool like Steve McQueen. It stands to reason that the legendary actor owned a Malibu beach house back in the day; like riding a motorcycle away from Nazis or driving a green Mustang hell-bent-for-leather over the vertiginous streets of San Francisco, he set the standard for how to do it with utter
Jarred Kessler is the CEO of EasyKnock. If you ask me, working from home is amazing. You can wear pajamas from the waist down, you have no commute and you can even sleep in. I understand that the process of reading on a train or after-work drinks with your co-workers has been lost, but there has
Mike McMullen is the CEO of Prominence Homes and the author of Build. Rent. Sell. Repeat! If you invest in housing you’ve probably used the “1% rule” to judge a potential property’s rate of return. For the uninitiated, the 1% rule states that, in order to be a good investment, a home needs to generate at least
Andrew Lanoie is a Best Selling Author, Investor and Podcaster at The Impatient Investor, as well as Co-Founder of Four Peaks Partners. The public perception is that as the economy and the housing market go, so does the rest of the real estate market. With anxiety over a potential housing crash, what would be the possible
At 19, Chloe Green may not be the youngest U.S. teen to buy a home, but she is among a select group of Gen-Z homebuyers who are hoping the trend takes off. Green, who grew up in Columbus, Ohio, closed on a two-bedroom, two-bathroom condominium in Canal Winchester on April 22. Since posting her story
Analytics firm Placer.ai reported that traffic in a 52-mall sample was up 86 percent over March, 2020. And while that still lags March 2019, mall owners believe we are in rebound mode. What is unknown is how long the pent-up demand will last. And as my colleague Pam Danziger recently reported, a survey of 1,000+
I cannot let April close without mentioning the bulge in our state. Texas has grown since the last census in 2010, so much that we are now picking up not one, but two seats in the U.S.House of Representatives. And we are the only state to do so; five other states will each pick up