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Ready to get your read on? Dive into the article archive to help you build wealth through real estate investing. We feature top subject matter experts exploring every facet of the industry.
3 “Values” of Real Estate Investors
Though we are most familiar with the concept of value as a number, it is so much more than that. Today we are going to focus on 3 measures of value in real estate investing. There are many other forms of value than just a numerical one that are present ...
How much time do you spend on planning a vacation versus planning your financial future? This was a question asked to me years ago, and it hit home. Now, when I ask it of others, it hits them the same way it hit me. We spend months planning a vacation, ...
7 Ways Landlords Could Benefit from a Trump Administration
Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 45th President of the United States on Jan. 20, 2017, with plans to fully “shake things up” on Capitol Hill. Whether he can pull that off remains to be seen. No one really knows what the future holds, but we do have ...
Scaling the Wall of Maturities
A significant portion of outstanding commercial and multifamily mortgages held by CMBS-backed lenders were to mature in 2016-17—an upcoming “wall of maturities.” Online marketplace lenders have a place in sorting out these pre-Recession commercial loans. After-Effects of the Great Recession A huge number of commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) conduit loans ...
5 Things We’re Thankful for in Today’s Real Estate Market
When William Arthur Ward wrote that “gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings…and change ordinary opportunities into blessings,” it is a near certainty that he did not have the 2016 housing market in mind. However, as a self-described “Christian optimist,” there is little doubt that were he still opining in ...
Where Out-of-State Investors Live and Buy
About 16 percent of the nation’s single-family rental homes - or 3.4 million properties - are owned by out-of-state investors, according to a new study from ATTOM Data Solutions. In many cases, ATTOM found investors lived in blue states with hotter housing markets and were buying in red states where properties ...
NAHB Predicts Growth in New Multifamily
Expect a strong year for new multifamily properties in 2017, the National Association of Home Builders reported. The newest Multifamily Production Index climbed three points in the third quarter to 53. A measure of 50 or higher indicates conditions are improving. The index often serves as a leading industry indicator ...
More Homeowners Have High Levels of Equity
More and more homeowners can be considered “equity rich,” according to ATTOM Data Solutions’ new U.S. Home Equity and Underwater Report. More than 13.1 million homeowners have a loan-to-value ratio of 50 or lower on their residence or 23.4 percent of all homeowners with a mortgage. Areas with high levels ...
A Look Ahead to the 2017 Housing Market
What does 2017 hold for the U.S. housing market? Zillow.com has released its forecast for the coming year and it looks like some noticeable shifts could be on the way. The home-ownership rate, which has been lower than normal, will rise as more and younger buyers enter the market. Many ...
Are You Focusing on the Real Money?
I see way too many investors on a daily basis trying to save money by, for example, managing their property themselves, because they don’t want to pay the 10 percent (or whatever the amount may be) to their property manager. Well, that is absolutely ridiculous! A good property manager is ...
Finding the Right Money Can Make or Break Your Deal
This is No. 4 in our special multi-part video mini-series sharing the steps that will help you dominate your deals. And as I’ve said, this isn’t just talk. These are steps that we are using every day, so I can attest that they work. So far in our mini-series, we’ve ...
To Flip or Not to Flip? If Not Now, When?
If you are considering investing in real estate, you've likely done a little digging on the internet to determine if now is a good time to buy. Looking at those online articles from time to time, I've noticed that the answer is always “Yes”—and always “No.” The people who say ...
Out-of-Staters Own 16 Percent of All Single-Family Investment Homes
A new analysis from ATTOM Data Solutions shows that 3.4 million single-family investment homes (non-owner occupied) nationwide are owned by an out-of-state investor. That’s 16 percent of all single-family investment homes. ATTOM Data Solutions, parent company of RealtyTrac, is the nation’s leading source for comprehensive housing data. In many cases ...
Are you focusing on progress over profits?
To put the subject of “Progress Over Profits” into context, I recently heard another real estate investor say, “When you chase money it will run.” And I couldn’t agree more. Based on my own personal experience as a full-time real estate investor in Dallas, Texas, for more than 10 years ...
October Foreclosure Activity Up 27 Percent
The number of nationwide foreclosure filings — default notices, scheduled auctions or bank repossessions —in October was up 27 percent from a 129-month low in September but still down 8 percent from a year ago, according to ATTOM Data Solutions’ just-released October 2016 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report. A total of ...
5 Options for Evaluating a Flip
In this latest installment in our multi-part “Getting Started” mini-series I’m going to give you 5 options for evaluating a flip. This episode is all about how we evaluate flips when we're doing deals in Atlanta and Charlotte. I’m talking about flips only. I’m planning an upcoming segment or two ...
Move Over Ethel: Real Estate Investing is Now a Team Effort
Over the past few decades, real estate — like pretty much every industry on the planet — has undergone a huge transformation, thanks to technology. Let’s flash back to 1972 for a moment. Things were simple back then: A gallon of gas cost 55 cents, brand-new homes were selling for ...
5 Things Investors Often Overlook
I think as the part-time real estate investor starts to wind down 2016, it’s human nature to look back with excitement and recognize some great accomplishments you had as an individual investor and a business owner. But will those catapult you into 2017? The obvious things to asses are how ...
Distressed home sales at nine-year low
ATTOM Data Solutions’ recently released Q3 2016 U.S. Home Sales Report shows distressed home sales at a nine-year low. Cash share sales also are at a nine-year low, while the average home price gain realized by sellers is at a nine-year high. ATTOM Data Solutions is the nation’s leading source ...
Plywood Out; Clear Boarding In
Effective this week, Fannie Mae is requiring “clear boarding” of its vacant properties in all states. The expanded requirement—outlawing the practice of boarding up pre- and post-foreclosure or REO properties with plywood—takes effect Nov. 9, 2016, with a 90-day adoption period for those servicing Fannie Mae properties to come into ...
Florida Supreme Court Gives Banks a “Do-Over” on Dismissed Foreclosures
Last week, the Florida Supreme Court decided to unleash a potential tidal wave of “new” foreclosures in the state, but the foreclosures in question are not really all that new. Instead, they’re mortgage foreclosure actions that were dismissed fewer than five years ago where the homeowners in question have once ...
Does a Real Estate Investor Need a License to Succeed?
I imagine many real estate investors who are new, part-time or just thinking about investing ask this question after doing their due diligence: Do I need a license to buy real estate? This is a great question, regardless of the scale of investing you plan to do. I know it ...
Ten-X Industrial Outlook Lists Top ‘Buy’ and ‘Sell’ Markets
Ten-X’s just-released report, “U.S. Industrial Market Outlook,” forecasts healthy expansion in the long term for industrial real estate assets, thanks to the continued rise of distribution centers tied to the growth of e-commerce and the increasing use of warehouses as cloud computing facilities. Ten-X is the nation’s leading online real ...
Three Sources of Amazing Deals
In this second of our multi-part “Getting Started” mini-series, we are talking about how to find deals. In a highly competitive market like Atlanta, how are we finding the best deals? It just seems like this space is crowded. I could just cry about not finding the right deals but ...
Data Integration is an Investor’s Differentiator
Have you or your organization embraced data integration as a mainstay of your real estate investing operations? If not, then you are at a definite disadvantage in today’s competitive marketplace. Data is an invaluable resource in real estate and can be your business’ differentiator, but only if used correctly. If ...
