America’s banks are facing a real estate “doom loop” (from The Wall Street Journal on September 6)…

Bank OZK had two branches in rural Arkansas when chief executive officer George Gleason bought it in 1979. The Little Rock lender today has billions of dollars in commercial real-estate loans, including for properties in Miami and Manhattan, where it is helping fund the construction of a 1,000-foot-tall office and luxury residential tower on Fifth

These cities are most at risk of a short-term rental meltdown (from Statista on September 6)…

With 32,597 Airbnb listings for an estimated 1.4 million inhabitants, the island state of Hawaii has the highest Airbnb density out of all U.S. cities and regions analyzed by InsideAirbnb as of June 2023. The project, which scrapes publicly available data from Airbnb’s website, was founded by activist and artist Murray Cox and has seen

Michael Gayed – publisher of The Lead-Lag Report and portfolio manager at Tidal Financial Group – believes the resumption of student loan repayments next month could also be a super-bearish catalyst for the housing market (from Nasdaq.com on September 21)…

Investors, beware: The stock market is at a high-risk juncture and a credit event could be just around the corner. One more risk – and potential trigger – that’s looming is the restart of student loan repayments. The “butterfly effect” is the idea in chaos theory that a small change can trigger a series of

Real-estate marketplace firm Zillow is now offering 1% down payments to entice homebuyers (from Bloomberg on August 24)…

Zillow Group Inc. is offering mortgages with just a 1% down payment as it tries to attract house hunters facing the most-unaffordable market in almost four decades. The 1% down payment program is even lower than Freddie Mac’s best of 3%, with Zillow offering to pay 2% of the down payment at closing, according to