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The Millennial Real Estate Boom Beckons?

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In the 2020 National Housing Forecast from Realtor.com , a number of predictions stand out, among them that home price growth will flatten, to a rate of about 80 basis points. Demand will be robust, the report said, and with low rates, rising rents and “the ever-expending Millennial population” all contributing to that demand.

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Millennial Entrepreneurs’ Optimism Is Booming — Here’s Their Top Concern

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As millennials continue to grow their presence in the small business (SMB) community, the dynamics of SMB finance are also changing. According to some experts , millennial small business owners no longer accept mediocre or sub-par services from their financial providers.

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Macro Trends and Millennials: AFT Spring Summit Meeting

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The Association for Financial Technology (AFT) held its 2016 Spring Summit Meeting in Orlando, Florida this year, and both Kelly Williams and I made the trip to learn more about what’s happening right now in the banking industry as well as what trends to expect in the future. Millennials make up 80 million people in the U.S.

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Who Will Use Self-Driving Cars?

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Similar sentiments were expressed in a study from the NAMIC (National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies). Beep piloted a public, IoT-enabled self-driving shuttle earlier this year in a Florida suburb. Specifically, we expect this to appeal to the millennial generation, the elderly and the disabled,” said Moye.

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Why ?Dining Out? Is About To Become A Much More Literal Term

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Enthusiasm for re-entering a possibly contaminated world isn’t terribly high among millennials, bridge millennials and Gen Xers, many of whom have shifted to digital habits over the last eight weeks or so – and plan to keep it that way, instead of transitioning back to the real world. How the Parking Lot Became a Dining Spot.

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Bloomscape And Tapping Into The Hip Houseplant Phenomenon

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The operational theory is that millennials, having made peace with the idea they are never buying a home with a yard, are instead turning their apartments into “house jungles,” “urban rain forest” or “jungalows” depending on the phraseology one favors. Bloomscape is a national service that delivers anything of any size to anywhere in the U.S.,

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Why The Next Big Connected Commerce Play Is Television

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That might not be a crazy assumption: Reports from Nielsen reveal that television viewership by that demographic has declined more than 40 percent since 2010 and is off 11 percent year over year for the older half of millennials aged 25 to 34. And who tend to operate in national, and often regional, footprints.