Author: Brad Beckett

A landlord in North Carolina is frustrated that the eviction moratorium has not only cost him over $24k in unpaid rent, but he has also watched as one of his tenants bought three boats.  FOX News is reporting that the landlord (who owns 35 properties) has not only been forced to maintain his properties but even had to repair an air conditioner ($4,500) at the residence of the same tenant who purchased the watercraft. And, as has been previously reported on this site, of the $46 billion made available to the Emergency Rental Assistance Program, less than $3 billion has…

The Wall Street Journal says (reposted on Realtor.com) there is a looming legal battle coming over the CDC’s new eviction moratorium.  They reported that a group of property managers and realtors lodged objections in federal court to the new moratorium right after the new one was issued.  This group is supported by the National Association of Realtors and are alleging the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lacked legal authority to issue new moratorium.  Interestingly, the Biden administration even acknowledged that it might be on tenuous legal footing when it told members of Congress (prior to enacting the new moratorium)…

The U.S. government is reporting that total construction spending in June was at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $1,552.2 billion, which is 0.1% above May’s revised estimate.  However, June’s figure was 8.2% higher than one year ago.  Residential construction was at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $763.4 billion in June, which is 1.1% higher than May’s revised estimate. Click here to read the full report at the U.S. Census Bureau.

Rentable says that the median nationwide rent price for one-bedroom units in June was $1,191 (up 2.5%) with two-bedroom units coming in at $1449 (up 2%).  Year-to-date, Rentable says one-bedrooms are now up 5.87% and two-bedrooms have gained 4.87%.  Be sure to check out their full data set of U.S. cities. “The pandemic has been a journey into the great unknown, and the coming months bring more questions than answers regarding nation median rent trends.” Click here to read the full report at Rentable.

While we’re quickly discovering that the Covid-19 pandemic is apparently not even close to being over, interestingly, the folks over at Statista remind us that last year’s recession (brought on by the pandemic) officially “is” over. Today’s infographic illustrates the length of all recessions since World War II and how they compare and stack up in duration. In fact, they point out that the recent pandemic-induced one was the shortest in U.S. history….Indeed. Stay safe and have a Happy Friday!!! Hat tip to Statista.

National REIA’s Charles Tassell was recently interviewed by one of Cincinnati’s most popular morning talk-radio shows to discuss the end of the CDC’s eviction moratorium (which was subsequently renewed the next day), the backlog of rental assistance, and the situation going forward.   Tassell even cited an example from last year where a landlord who was working with his tenants shared how some were helping anonymously with the rent.  Indeed… Listen to “Charles Tassell from the National Real Estate Investors Assn. RE: end of eviction moratorium” on Spreaker. Click here to listen on 550 AM, WKRC Cincinnati.

(Crestview Hills, KY)  The National Real Estate Investors Association issued the following statement regarding the Biden Administration’s recent reimposition of the CDC’s Eviction Moratorium. No means No.  Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court said in a 5-4 decision that the CDC does not have the authority to put in place an eviction moratorium under Section 264.  However, the Biden Administration chose to do it anyway.  We are calling on the Supreme Court to immediately strike down this blatant act of unconstitutionality. Charles Tassell, COO of National REIA said “The Executive Branch is acting as if it were the Legislative Branch, meanwhile…

The CDC has a powerful interactive COVID-19 map that provides an integrated county-level view of Covid-19 infections.  The CDC says it allows for the exploration of standardized data across the country and it allows for the exploration of standardized data across the country.  Indeed… Click here to view the map on the CDC’s site.

“Say it ain’t so, Joe”…..The Biden Administration said Tuesday afternoon that the CDC’s rental eviction moratorium would be resurrected in some manner or form, and true to his word, later in the day the CDC announced its new eviction moratorium, which is set to expire on October, 3, 2021.  According to FOX Business, officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention crafted a new eviction moratorium aimed at protecting tenants in counties with “substantial and high levels of community transmission” of COVID-19.   In addition, they reported that the AP says that over 90% of the U.S. population lives in…

According to the latest Federal Housing Finance Agency’s (FHFA) House Price Index (HPI), U.S. house prices were up 1.7% in May and up 18% from May, 2020.  The FHFA produces the nation’s only public, freely available house price indexes (HPIs) that measure changes in single-family house prices based on data that cover all 50 states and over 400 American cities and extend back to the mid-1970s.  The FHFA’s HPIs are built on tens of millions of home sales and offer insights about home price fluctuations at the levels of the nation, census division, state, metro area, county, ZIP code, and…