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From Jason Payne, Market News Analyst …
Although the U.S. housing industry continues to face some challenges, another week of pleasant surprises from our industry’s news cycle bolsters Mogul’s view that this ongoing recovery in residential real estate is here to stay.
Think of the U.S. housing industry as a once-critical patient who seemed all but lost in the economic E.R.:
Until recently, that woeful real estate patient was clinging to Ben Bernanke’s life support like a five dollar toupee clings to Donald Trump’s scalp on a windy day. But after much economic care (and more than a few brushes with death), the patient is now regaining many of its normal motor skills …
... And those of us who have been rooting for the housing market’s long-term health prospects now find ourselves in a delightfully refreshing season of recovery. Our fading memories of nonstop bad news continue to be replaced with a regular flow of pleasantly surprising developments.
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Jason Payne
is a management consultant and founder of the Groundwar Group -- a private consulting firm providing premier corporate advisory and leadership training solutions for business leaders and investors worldwide. Mr. Payne is also the Senior Market News Analyst and a featured "Mindset" advisor for more than 15,000 entrepreneurs and investors at RealEstateMogul.com -- roles he has held since 2013 and 2014, respectively. In these capacities, Jason draws from more than a decade of successful business and investment research on Wall Street to provide insightful commentaries on a wide variety of investing- and leadership-related topics.
Mr. Payne began his career as a research analyst in the award-winning Equity Research department of Morgan Keegan & Company, where at 26 years of age, he became one of the youngest published analysts on Wall Street -- with a specialized focus on real estate investment trusts (REITs). Jason also holds a degree in Finance from New York University's prestigious Leonard N. Stern School of Business, and he is currently completing his professional residency within the Global Leadership Training program of Uruguay's multinational Geronimo Center for Innovation & Leadership.