Leasing is better than buying

The American dream of homeownership is quickly moving out of reach for many, with 18% of millennials surveyed by rental listings site Apartment List saying they expect to rent forever. For those who do hope to buy a home, 63% reported having no money for a down payment. If you’re looking for ways to help your kids purchase their first home, leveraging the equity you have in yours through a home equity loan may be the best way to do it. Key Takeaways Make sure you can pay back a home equity loan before risking your home for the sake of helping your kids buy one. With home equity loan proceeds, you can give them cash for a down payment or help pay down their debt to help them get approved. Keep gift taxes in mind when gifting your loan proceeds to your kids. Use a Home Equity Loan to Help Kids Buy a Home Before taking out a home equity loan to help your kids buy their first home, consider the rest of the assets you may have available. If you have other assets … [Read more...] about Using a Home Equity Loan to Help Your Kids Buy Their First Home

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Topline Shares of Twitter plunged on Friday after Elon Musk said he would put his acquisition of the social media company “temporarily on hold,” adding additional confusion to whether a deal will still happen as analysts predict that the Tesla billionaire could be looking for an excuse to back out or renegotiate a lower buying price. Key Facts Twitter’s stock fell roughly 10% on Friday after Musk said he would put his planned $44 billion takeover “ on hold ” until he finds out more about the number of fake and spam accounts on the platform. Musk’s “bizarre” tweet will send the “Twitter circus show into a Friday the 13th horror show,” wrote Wedbush analyst Dan Ives, with “many questions and no concrete answers as to the path of this deal going forward.” The markets are reacting as if he is going to back out of the deal, which could well be a possibility, according to Michael Hewson, chief markets … [Read more...] about Musk Could Try To ‘Get Out’ Of Twitter Acquisition After ‘Troubling’ Decision To Put Deal On Hold: Analysts

Representative image Bullish on the growth potential of India's office market, TATA Realty and Infrastructure MD and CEO Sanjay Dutt said the total leasing of office space across major seven cities is expected to rise to more than 30 million square feet in 2022 compared to 26 million square feet in 2021 on better demand from corporates. In an interview with PTI, Dutt highlighted that hiring at a large scale is already happening with many sectors bouncing back after the adverse impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. "Commercial activities have gone up already with a sharp fall in Covid cases. 'Return to office' will increase going forward. Early signs indicate that the total net leasing of office space in 2022 across seven major cities will cross last year's number," he said. The total net absorption of office space will cross 30 million square feet in 2022 as against 26 million square feet in the previous year. "Hiring on a large scale basis is happening already. Many sectors … [Read more...] about Return to office, large scale hiring to drive office space demand in 2022: TATA Realty

- A + A BENGALURU/NEW YORK (May 14): SMBC Aviation Capital, one of the world's biggest aircraft lessors, is nearing a deal to acquire smaller rival Goshawk for about US$7 billion (about RM30.79 billion), including debt, people familiar with the matter said on Friday (May 13). The deal between the two privately held, Dublin, Ireland-based lessors could be announced as soon as next week, the sources said, speaking on condition of anonymity. It would create a global aircraft leasing giant as consolidation sweeps the industry. Last year, the world's two largest aircraft leasing companies, Ireland's AerCap and GE's leasing arm GECAS, merged in a deal worth more than US$30 billion. SMBC Aviation Capital, which is owned by a consortium including Japan's Sumitomo Corp and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, has a fleet of more than 750 owned, managed and committed aircraft, mostly Boeing and Airbus short-haul models, according to its website. Goshawk, which is a 50-50 joint … [Read more...] about Aircraft lessor SMBC Aviation near US$7b deal for rival Goshawk, sources say

On an unassuming corner near Union Square in downtown Manhattan , a slow creep of new businesses have cropped up over the last few months, occupying storefronts that previously housed retailers more typical of lower Fifth Avenue—a now-vacated Eddie Bauer outpost, Bobby Flay’s legendary restaurant Mesa Grill, which shuttered in 2013, and British lingerie store Rigby & Peller. The newcomers— Modern Age , Kindbody , and VSpot , which inked its lease just last week—have clustered, one next to another, near 15th Street. And they share something in common: all these businesses are women-founded and provide women’s health and wellness services. advertisement advertisement That they’re all light-flooded, bright windowed spaces, street-level, with frontage and marquee branding right in the midst of one of New York’s most trafficked shopping districts is perhaps a sign there’s been a seismic shift in the public discourse around women’s healthcare. … [Read more...] about A women’s health micro-neighborhood springs up on Fifth Avenue

The report by 360 Realtors showed that most respondents believed that the offices will continue to facilitate meaningful social interaction in the times to come. As employees return to work after three waves of COVID-19, the focus is on hotelisation of the office, wherein more home-like comforts are offered to employees. Offices are no longer seen as mere workstations but also spaces that nurture human productivity, foster better meaningful engagements, and take care of employee safety, according to a report titled 'The Future of Offices and Workflow Design'. The future of offices will be more about high-end services. The added services won’t always mean more luxury or comfort but will translate into better utility and the new office arrangement will be a mix of leased and owned spaces alongside flexible workstations, temporary workstations, and co-working spaces, the report by 360 Realtors said. In the last 10 years, there has been a rush to get prime office spaces in the … [Read more...] about Future of offices will be more about high-end services: Report

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin 6 Tips for First Time Home Buyers. What you really need to know before buying a house. Getty Buying a home will likely be the biggest purchase you make in your life. At least until you buy your second, more expensive home. Recently, the real estate market has appeared to be cooling. All the same, home ownership is still a major part of the American Dream. It can also be a great way to help build wealth over time, when done properly. Here are six things you need to know when buying your first home. Begin with Getting Ready to Borrow via a Mortgage . Your dream home may or may not be within reach today. You might be able to buy more house than you really need. How much of a mortgage payment you can truly afford will likely depend on your lifestyle as well as assets, income and debt. Before you run off and find your dream home, you should put some time into determining what you can really afford. You … [Read more...] about 6 Things First Time Home Buyers Need To Know

Traders at the New York Stock Exchange on March 9, 2020, as stocks plunged amid mounting worries over the coronavirus. Photographer: Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images Anyone checking their investment accounts at the moment will presumably recoil in shock—and then think about putting more money to work. After all, history reveals periods of intense Wall Street fear are ultimately good buying opportunities, a pattern that’s duly nurtured a generation of investors primed to “buy the dip” during major equity and credit market routs. One of the most memorable, short-lived dips in asset prices was the pandemic low of early 2020, and that’s a good starting point for investors trying to make sense of what ails markets today. The culprit stirring up market volatility and punishing asset prices isn’t hard to spot. A soothing tide of fiscal and monetary stimulus that started in 2020 is now retreating as central banks try to counteract the highest pace of inflation in four decades. … [Read more...] about The investing party may be over, but markets might make sense again

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Manuel Blay is editor of TheDowTheory.com , a website that closely tracks the price movements of the Dow Industrials, the Dow Transports and the Dow Utilities, among other indexes. It’s an old-school type of looking at charts that you don’t hear about much when technical analysts gather to compare notes. Blay says you should be paying attention, there’s lots to be learned. I had a chance to ask him some questions about it and here’s how it went: John Navin : Dow Theory is an old form of price chart analysis. Why is it still relevant? Manuel Blay : It is more relevant than ever for three reasons: 1) Because it works. By this, I mean: it cuts drawdowns and outperforms buy and hold. And it performs much better than its trend-following competitors, namely moving averages and breakout systems. 2) Because it was a track record spanning +120 years (for stocks). 3) Because it can be applied to many markets. … [Read more...] about Dow Theory: Is It Still Relevant? Editor Of TheDowTheory.Com Says Yes

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Marketing appeals to and attracts potential customers. Sales converts that potential into bottom-line results. As the vice president of sales and marketing at a company that provides sales enablement solutions, I've found that the two entities can join forces via sales enablement, with marketing delivering resources and strategies that help sales close the deal. Moreover, a good sales enablement strategy can improve your return on investment. Research from HubSpot found that companies with service-level agreements (SLAs) between marketing and sales have better cooperation and performance. So why does this approach become such a challenge? Sales enablement should be marketing-driven, yet too often, the way leads are treated during marketing can differ from their experience with sales. The careful research that drew prospects to your messaging doesn’t always transition to sales’ needs; thus, you could be … [Read more...] about Why Sales Enablement Requires Both Marketing And Sales Strategies