David Goll

Oct 14, 2024 | paloaltoonline.com | David Goll

By the start of next year, Californians looking to add accessory dwelling units to their backyards will be able to shop around for preapproved plans on their local city website as part of a statewide push to make the process easier and encourage more affordable housing to be built.

Sep 23, 2024 | paloaltoonline.com | David Goll

By David GollDespite the upcoming U.S. presidential election in November — which has been known to put a chill on the fall home buying season every four years — industry insiders in the Midpeninsula residential real estate market foresee a hotter autumn this year than last thanks in large part to the Federal Reserve’s recent interest rate cuts coupled with strong pent-up demand for housing. Just about the only thing holding back the market is the region’s ongoing lack of housing inventory.

Aug 20, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | David Goll |Robert Joyce |Tom Waters

1 INTRODUCTION The growth of ‘in-work’ transfers, such as Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) in the USA and Working Families' Tax Credit (WFTC) in the UK, has been a major development in transfer policy in developed economies in recent decades. These have been viewed as a tool for raising living standards among low-earning households, but also, crucially, for changing incentives.

Aug 15, 2024 | newsbreak.com | David Goll

Aug 15, 2024 | paloaltoonline.com | David Goll

Big changes are coming to how homes are bought and sold beginning Aug. 17 when new rules roll out that will revamp how Realtors get paid commission. The changes, which are part of a $418 million court settlement that the trade group the National Association of Realtors announced in March, put an end to the decades-old practice requiring home sellers to pay 5% to 6% of a home’s purchase price to cover the commission for both the listing agent and the buyer’s agent.