Doug Duncan of Fannie Mae Joins Bruce Norris on the Real Estate Radio Show #453

On Friday, October 16, the Norris Group proudly presents its 8th annual award-winning black-tie event I Survived Real Estate. An incredible lineup of industry experts will join Bruce Norris to discuss perplexing industry trends, head-scratching legislation, and opportunities emerging for real estate professionals. Proceeds from the event benefit Make a Wish and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. This event could not have been possible without the generous help of the following platinum partners: HousingWire, PropertyRadar, the Apartment Owners Association, the San Diego Creative Real Estate Investors Association, San Jose Real Estate Investors Association, InvestClub for Women, MVT Productions, First Lending Solutions, and White House Catering. For event information, visit isurvivedrealestate.com.

 Bruce Norris is joined this week by Doug Duncan. Doug is Fannie Mae’s senior vice president and chief economist. He is responsible for providing all forecasts on the economy, housing, and mortgage markets for Fannie Mae. He also oversees corporate strategy and is responsible for strategic research regarding external factors and their potential impact on both the company and housing industry. Doug was named one Bloomberg Business Week’s 50 most powerful people in real estate. He was also one of Inman News’ 100 most influential real estate leaders for 2013. Prior to joining Fannie Mae, Duncan was senior vice president and chief economist at the Mortgage Bankers Association. Doug will be featured on the panel at I Survived Real Estate 2015. Bruce and Doug discuss the current sentiment index and how this affects people's actions, their current survey of millennials, the current income gap, the inventory and lack of pricing pressure in Riverside, profit motive in 2015, people's view of housing at this point, potential tax policy changes, and much, much more on this week's Norris Group real estate radio show and podcast.

 The Norris Group would like to thank its gold sponsors for supporting I Survived Real Estate: Adrenaline Athletics, Capital City Wealth Builders, Coachella Valley Real Estate Investors, Association, Coldwell Banker Town and Country, Elite Auctions, iMortgage, In a Day Development, Inland Valley Association of Realtors, Jennifer Buys Houses, Keller Williams Corona, Keystone CPA, Las Brisas Escrow, LA SouthReia, Leivas Tax Wealth Management, North California Real Estate Investors Association, North San Diego Real Estate Investors, Pilot Limousine, Orange County FIBI, Real Wealth Network, Realty411 Magazine, Rick and LeeAnne Rossiter, Southern California Chapter of the Appraisal Institute, Sonoca Corporation, Spinnaker Loans, Tri-Counties Association of Realtors, uDirect IRA Services, Westin South Coast Plaza, Wilson Investment Properties, FIBI Pasadena, and Scott Whaley.

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Sean O'Toole of PropertyRadar Joins Bruce Norris on the Real Estate Radio Show #452

On Friday, October 16, the Norris Group proudly presents its 8th annual award-winning black-tie event I Survived Real Estate. An incredible lineup of industry experts will join Bruce Norris to discuss perplexing industry trends, head-scratching legislation, and opportunities emerging for real estate professionals. Proceeds from the event benefit Make a Wish and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. This event could not have been possible without the generous help of the following platinum partners: HousingWire, PropertyRadar, the Apartment Owners Association, the San Diego Creative Real Estate Investors Association, San Jose Real Estate Investors Association, InvestClub for Women, MVT Productions, Wilson Investment Properties, and White House Catering. For event information, visit isurvivedrealestate.com.

 Bruce Norris is joined this week by Sean O’Toole. Sean is the founder and CEO of PropertyRadar. Prior to launching PropertyRadar, Sean successfully purchased and flipped more than 150 residential commercial foreclosures. Leveraging 15 years in the software industry, Sean used technology as a key competitive advantage to build his successful real estate track record. He has been using his skills ever since to really change the accessed information for the trustee sales business and now for everybody involved in any types of property. Bruce and Sean discuss how much the landscape has changed and the access to information, HELOC resetting, Sean's predictions of 2015 and how they have played out, the upward and downward swings in property sales, the search for yield, hedge fund participants, the floating municipal bond at corporate, and much, much more on this week's Norris Group real estate radio show and podcast.

 The Norris Group would like to thank its gold sponsors for supporting I Survived Real Estate: Adrenaline Athletics, Capital City Wealth Builders, Coachella Valley Real Estate Investors, Association, Coldwell Banker Town and Country, Elite Auctions, iMortgage, In a Day Development, Inland Valley Association of Realtors, Jennifer Buys Houses, Keller Williams Corona, Keystone CPA, Las Brisas Escrow, LA SouthReia, Leivas Tax Wealth Management, North California Real Estate Investors Association, North San Diego Real Estate Investors, Pilot Limousine, Orange County FIBI, Real Wealth Network, Realty411 Magazine, Rick and LeeAnne Rossiter, Southern California Chapter of the Appraisal Institute, Sonoca Corporation, Spinnaker Loans, Tri-Counties Association of Realtors, uDirect IRA Services, Westin South Coast Plaza, FIBI Pasadena, and Scott Whaley.

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Christopher Thornberg Joins Bruce Norris on the Real Estate Radio Show #451

On Friday, October 16, the Norris Group proudly presents its 8th annual award-winning black-tie event I Survived Real Estate. An incredible lineup of industry experts will join Bruce Norris to discuss perplexing industry trends, head-scratching legislation, and opportunities emerging for real estate professionals. Proceeds from the event benefit Make a Wish and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. This event could not have been possible without the generous help of the following platinum partners: HousingWire, PropertyRadar, the Apartment Owners Association, the San Diego Creative Real Estate Investors Association, San Jose Real Estate Investors Association, InvestClub for Women, MVT Productions, Wilson Investment Properties, and White House Catering. For event information, visit isurvivedrealestate.com.

Bruce Norris is joined this week by Christopher Thornberg. Dr. Thornberg is the founding partner of Beacon Economics, LLC and widely considered to be one of the nation’s leading economists. An expert in economic forecasting, regional economics, labor markets, economic policy, and industry and real estate analysis, he was one of the earliest and most adamant predictors of the sub-prime mortgage collapse and of the global economic recession that followed. In 2015, Dr. Thornberg was named California State Treasurer John Chiang’s council of economic advisors. He also serves on the advisory boards of Paulson and Company, Inc., one of Wall Street’s leading hedge funds and the Los Angeles area Chamber of Commerce, Southern California’s largest not-for-profit business federation. Recently he was appointed as executive director for the Center of Economic Forecasting and Economic Development at the UC Riverside School of Business Administration. The new center is hosting a major event called the Inland Southern California Economic Forecast Conference on October 1 at the Riverside Convention Center. Here he will be presenting a new forecast for the global and U.S. economy, which will also include a forecast for California and the Inland Regions of Southern California. Bruce and Christopher discuss forecasting and the difficulties facing it today, China's economy and its impact on the U.S., the correlation between China and Japan's economy in the 1980s, wealth discrepancy and minimum wage in the U.S., the growing inequality, education reform, the benefits of having a teacher in the classroom compared to online classes, and much, much more on this week's Norris Group real estate radio show and podcast.

The Norris Group would like to thank its gold sponsors for supporting I Survived Real Estate: Adrenaline Athletics, Coachella Valley Real Estate Investors, Association, Coldwell Banker Town and Country, Elite Auctions, iMortgage, In a Day Development, Inland Valley Association of Realtors, IRA Services Trust Company, Jennifer Buys Houses, Keller Williams Corona, Keystone CPA, Las Brisas Escrow, LA SouthReia, Leivas Tax Wealth Management, New Western Acquisition, North California Real Estate Investors Association, North San Diego Real Estate Investors, Pilot Limousine, Orange County FIBI, Real Wealth Network, Realty411 Magazine, Rick and LeeAnne Rossiter, Southern California Chapter of the Appraisal Institute, Sonoca Corporation, Spinnaker Loans, Tri-Counties Association of Realtors, uDirect IRA Services, Westin South Coast Plaza, FIBI Pasadena, and Scott Whaley.

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Eileen Reynolds of CBIA Joins Bruce Norris on the Real Estate Radio Show #450

On Friday, October 16, the Norris Group proudly presents its 8th annual award-winning black-tie event I Survived Real Estate. An incredible lineup of industry experts will join Bruce Norris to discuss perplexing industry trends, head-scratching legislation, and opportunities emerging for real estate professionals. Proceeds from the event benefit Make a Wish and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. This event could not have been possible without the generous help of the following platinum partners: HousingWire, PropertyRadar, the Apartment Owners Association, the San Diego Creative Real Estate Investors Association, San Jose Real Estate Investors Association, InvestClub for Women, MVT Productions, Wilson Investment Properties, and White House Catering. For event information, visit isurvivedrealestate.com. 

Bruce Norris is joined this week by Eileen Reynolds. Eileen is the chairperson of the California Builders Industry Association. She has served in a variety of leadership positions at CBIA, including vice-chair in 2014, chair of the government affairs committee in 2013, and a member of the political action committee, executive committee, and board of directors. Reynolds as the land use and environmental lobbyist for the California Association of Realtors in the state capital. Her 19 years at CAR gave her an understanding of trade associations, development policy and politics. These are some of the strengths she brings to her leadership role at CBIA. Bruce and Eileen discuss the building industry, where we are at in regards to units built, societal issues and how new home buyers handle them, the lack of construction jobs, the drought, and much, much more on this week's Norris Group real estate radio show and podcast.

 The Norris Group would like to thank its gold sponsors for supporting I Survived Real Estate: Adrenaline Athletics, Coachella Valley Real Estate Investors, Association, Coldwell Banker Town and Country, Elite Auctions, iMortgage, In a Day Development, Inland Valley Association of Realtors, IRA Services Trust Company, Jennifer Buys Houses, Keller Williams Corona, Keystone CPA, Las Brisas Escrow, LA SouthReia, Leivas Tax Wealth Management, New Western Acquisition, North California Real Estate Investors Association, North San Diego Real Estate Investors, Pilot Limousine, Orange County FIBI, Real Wealth Network, Realty411 Magazine, Rick and LeeAnne Rossiter, Southern California Chapter of the Appraisal Institute, Sonoca Corporation, Spinnaker Loans, Tri-Counties Association of Realtors, uDirect IRA Services, Westin South Coast Plaza, FIBI Pasadena, and Scott Whaley.

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