Opportunity Zones

Stock market sellers might be realizing capital gains without having a specific tax plan for the increase they just realized.

The property, located in a qualified opportunity zone in the Bergen-Lafayette neighborhood, was sold by a partnership between Alpine Development, Fields Development Group and Grade Development Co.

Walker & Dunlop arranged the loan through the US Dept. of Housing & Urban Development's new construction program.

The program does a lot of good things, but a tweak or two could make it better.

Oregon has 834 census tracts, more than 300 of which were eligible by meeting the definition of a "low income community" in terms of median family incomes or poverty rates, and Governor Brown's nomination resulted in 86 QOZs.

The project located in a federally-designated Qualified Opportunity Zone is a public-private partnership between Habitat, Sinai Health System, Cinespace Chicago Film Studios, the Chicago Housing Authority and the city of Chicago.

Providing the infrastructure to supercharge growth can help smaller cities compete.

Catalyst Opportunity Zone Funds has created a social impact scorecard to ensure it is meeting both community and investment needs on opportunity zone projects.