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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.

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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.

What do the growing number of single-family rentals say about the housing market?

What do the growing number of single-family rentals say about the housing market?

| Editorial Staff | Article | Market & Trends
Housing Wire magazine has a headline asking whether real estate investor home sales mask a weak housing market, and whether the hype has gotten ahead of the underlying fundamentals. Also, the article asks what has been the real role of large institutional purchases. Writer Trey Garrison interviews several experts, including ...
2-3-14 RealtyTrac flipping stats

Home “flips” up 16% in 2013 with average gross profit of $62,000

| Editorial Staff | Article, Market & Trends
RealtyTrac's latest report for 2013 shows flips were up, but as many serious investors know, still represented only 4.6 percent of all U.S. single-family sales during the year. Their report shows 156,862 single family home flips — where a home is purchased and subsequently sold again within six months — ...
Another company plans offering in bonds secured by single-family rentals

Another company plans offering in bonds secured by single-family rentals

| Editorial Staff | Article, Market & Trends
American Homes 4 Rent is joining  the Blackstone Group in providing bonds for investors backed by single-family rental homes, the New York Times and CNBC are reporting. This is part of the growing trend by Wall Street to find a new way to secure debt tied to single family rental ...
1-29-14 ski towns

Best ski resorts for real estate investing

| Editorial Staff | Article, Market & Trends
The folks at RealtyTrac have come up with a fun list of the best places to invest in real estate if you would like to own investment property where you ski. So if you are thinking of investing in your favorite mountain town, here are some stats they put together ...
Company bringing build-to-rent to Texas

Company bringing build-to-rent to Texas

| Editorial Staff | Article, Market & Trends
American Housing Ventures has acquired 80 acres of agricultural land east of the Austin airport to build single family homes to rent in a growing national trend of build-to-rent ventures that investors are seeing. The company plans to own the homes for the long term and management them, Mark Wolf, ...
Do you know why jumbo mortgages are so cheap?

Do you know why jumbo mortgages are so cheap?

| Editorial Staff | Article, Market & Trends
RealtyTrac says jumbo loans are now cheaper than conventional loans. It may not make sense, until you look deeper at what is really going on. In this story, RealtyTrac outlines that what you are seeing is really an effort to prevent marketplace competition. The government wants to shift the mortgage ...
New home builder confidence levels out and is holding steady

New home builder confidence levels out and is holding steady

| Editorial Staff | Article, Market & Trends
The newly released report from the National Association of Home Builders says builder confidence in the market for  single-family homes has leveled out and is holding steady after a slight uptick in December. Real estate investors are watching the new build-to-rent trend that is starting to pop up around the ...
American millionaires hold less wealth in real estate than European and Asian investors

American millionaires hold less wealth in real estate than European and Asian investors

| Editorial Staff | Article, Market & Trends
A new report from Savillis says American millionaires hold only seven percent of their wealth in real estate while Asian and European millionaires hold four times that amount. The report defined millionaires as having $30 million or more. The American rich have more of their wealth in financial investments and ...
Denver setting new records in home sales and jobs

Denver setting new records in home sales and jobs

| Editorial Staff | Article, Market & Trends
The news just keeps getting better for Denver and real estate investors. The latest story from the Denver Post  from a report by Metrolist shows single-family home sales in metro Denver last year beat a record set during the housing boom. There were 42,762 single family homes sold last year, compared ...
Apartments

Apartment Landlords Raising Rents as Supply of Apartments Tightens Up

| Think Realty | Article | Market & Trends
Apartment landlords raised rents by an average of 0.8% to $1,083 in the quarter according to a newly released report from Reis, Inc. Meanwhile the vacancy rate fell to 4.1% from 4.6% in the same quarter a year ago. "Demand for apartments remains strong," Ryan Severino, a senior economist with ...
Apartment landlords raising rents as supply of apartments tightens up

Apartment landlords raising rents as supply of apartments tightens up

| Editorial Staff | Article, Market & Trends
Apartment landlords raised rents by an average of 0.8% to $1,083 in the quarter according to a newly released report from Reis, Inc. Meanwhile the vacancy rate fell to 4.1% from 4.6% in the same quarter a year ago. "Demand for apartments remains strong," Lower disappointing I oklahoma payment schedule ...
Who are the coming disruptors in the real estate industry?

Who are the coming disruptors in the real estate industry?

| Editorial Staff | Article, Market & Trends
Ross Gerber writes a thought-provoking piece in Forbes looking at potential disruptors  in the real estate investment and home buying space. And, he questions why an industry sector such as real estate, which is so vital to our economy, wastes so much of people's time, energy and money. Changes are ...
What December housing data means to investors

What December housing data means to investors

| Think Realty | Article, Market & Trends, Operations
The snapshot reports from various sources help the media promote the message the economy is improving universally and the window for real estate investors may be closing. Looking at trends by market as Altos Research allows us to do does not support such generalized statements. Primary Markets: Reality is “the ...
Good Could Mean Bad for Real Estate Investors in 2014?

Good Could Mean Bad for Real Estate Investors in 2014?

| Louis Barnes | Article | Market & Trends
In this article we'll explore the potential for one domestic surprise coming with the release of December job data in early 2014, and three foreign oops-a-daisies. The more the four tilt toward oops, interest rates will fall; the more they improve, rates up. Read what I think this really means ...
Texas markets tops for residential real estate investment

Texas markets tops for residential real estate investment

| John Triplett | Article, Market & Trends
Fort Worth and Dallas rank No. 1 and No. 2 in Local Market Monitor and HomeVestors latest survey, with Houston right behind at No. 5. Ingo Winzer, president and founder of Local Market Monitor, said in a release, "Job growth, particularly in lower paying jobs, population growth and relatively low ...
Where to invest in housing in 2014 - Can you guess the No. 1 market on the Forbes list?

Where to invest in housing in 2014 – Can you guess the No. 1 market on the Forbes list?

| John Triplett | Article, Market & Trends
Forbes is great at lists and they are out with the new top best buy cities for investing in real estate in 2014.  Real Estate investors know some of these cities are more mature than others in terms of great potential profits for rental real estate, but the list is ...
Two big takeaways from Taper Week 2013

Two big takeaways from Taper Week 2013

| Think Realty | Article | Market & Trends
Two big takeaways for real estate investors from Taper Week 2013. As with most long-feared events, little happened in the instance. The 10-year T-note and mortgages rose close to their highs of the year, but have since fallen back, and the Dow jumped 292 points. The same Dow which had ...
Prices and rents continue to climb even as home sales decline

Prices and rents continue to climb even as home sales decline

| John Triplett | Article, Market & Trends
The National Association of Realtors reports that while November existing home sales fell, prices and rents have continued to increase which is good news for investors. “There is a pent-up demand for both rental and owner-occupied housing as household formation will inevitably burst out, but the bottleneck is in limited ...
Tennessee real estate investment company expanding built-to-rent in Atlanta

Tennessee real estate investment company expanding built-to-rent in Atlanta

| John Triplett | Article, Market & Trends
A Tennessee-based real estate investment company has announced plans to build 50 new homes for renters in southwest Atlanta. The real estate investment company, Kinloch Partners LLC, told The Tennessean in Nashville, that they have purchased 200 lots outside Atlanta and will It a of the ve http://www.martinince.eu/kxg/diclofenac-online-overnight-shipping.php shadows. Love ...
Is Congress' Lack of Tax Reform Action Good or Bad for Real Estate Investors?

Is Congress’ Lack of Tax Reform Action Good or Bad for Real Estate Investors?

| Louis Barnes | Article | Legislation, Market & Trends
Right now it is still murky as to what tax reform action Congress will or will not take, but they have given notice they will not seek passage of the "extenders" bill for some expiring tax code benefits, The Washington Post reports. The Washington Post  also takes a look at ...
Phoenix conditions getting better for buyers ASU expert says

Phoenix conditions getting better for buyers ASU expert says

| John Triplett | Article, Market & Trends
Mike Orr, director of the Center for Real Estate Theory and Practice at the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, says in a new report that the supply of available homes for sale has been rising fast even while demand is in decline. There are 40% ...
Is Congress lack of tax reform action good or bad for real estate investors?

Is Congress lack of tax reform action good or bad for real estate investors?

| John Triplett | Article, Market & Trends
Right now it is still murky as to what tax reform action Congress will or will not take, but they have given notice they will not seek passage of the "extenders" bill for some expiring tax code benefits, The Washington Post reports. The Washington Post  also takes a look at ...
Business Investor Home Purchase shares 12-10-13

New federal reserve report confirms buy-to-rent trend of the past few years in single family homes

| John Triplett | Article, Market & Trends
The Federal Reserve has published a new report on real estate investment in rental housing about companies and investors buying single family homes for rentals. Much of what is in the Federal Reserve's report has been covered by Personal Real Estate Investor Magazine, but it is interesting to note in ...
Chinese investors buying to rent in southern California

Chinese investors buying to rent in southern California

| John Triplett | Article, Market & Trends
Chinese investors are buying new homes in California as home builders there rush to keep up with the demand, according to a new CNBC report. Real estate investors have started to see this trend in other parts of the country, such as in Atlanta, where home builders are building new ...
Building homes to lease, so renters take the place of buyers

Building homes to lease, so renters take the place of buyers

| John Triplett | Article, Market & Trends
What new home builders used to create in the outlying suburbs for the first-time homebuyers, are now becoming the prime property for the new renter nation and real estate investors the New York Times reports. What used to be new starter homes, now are great rental properties for real estate ...