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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.
7 Must-Have Apps for Real Estate Investors
Real estate investors are constantly on the go, and the majority do not have an official company office space to use as home base. That means, for most, their cell phone, laptop, tablet, or some combination of these is their mobile office. I usually carry my laptop with me when ...
4 Ways to Finance Buy-and-Hold Real Estate
The biggest problem most new investors face is figuring out how to finance their real estate investments. This is especially true when they want to get into buy-and-hold investments, which is where the real wealth-generating power of real estate investment lies. Do not avoid long-term real estate investments just because ...
4 Things Jamie Wooley Wishes Every New Investor Knew
“One of the deals I learned the most from was also one of my biggest losses,” Jamie Wooley admitted ruefully. “It was a historic renovation (images top and below), so we took a 700-square-foot property and added 2,000 square feet. It’s one of my favorite transformations, but it was also ...
Think Realty Magazine Turns New Page with Editor-in-Chief Position
Since its inception in 2016, Think Realty Magazine has quickly grown to become a premier publication in the real estate industry. That success is due to the hard work and dedication of many Think Realty team members under the guidance of Think Realty President, Eddie Wilson, and the Editor-in-Chief, Carole ...
Americans Prefer Renovating to Buying
Over three-quarters of Americans say they would rather renovate their current home than make a down payment on a new one. This surprising information was recently released by Zillow in its “Housing Aspirations Report.” The report is based in part on data from Zillow’s annual report on consumer housing trends ...
“Flipping” Between Short- and Long-Term Rental Strategy
Vacation homes and other short-term rentals are becoming increasingly popular as investors realize the opportunity these assets represent in terms of high returns. However, some of the requirements for high returns are somewhat dynamic in nature. For example, when you choose where to invest in Airbnb rentals, you should go ...
Glassdoor, a job-review and insight website, recently released its “Best Cities for Jobs in 2018” list. In this case, the survey revealed secondary markets made a strong showing. The list weighs how easy it is to get a job, the area's affordability, and the rate of employee satisfaction. Although midsize cities may ...
How to Invest with a Downturn in Mind
For the past three years, I’ve been warning investors: “If you buy something now, it will be worth less sometime in the next three years because a recession is coming.” We are way overdue for a correction. However, a pending downturn does not mean you stop investing. It just means ...
5 Best Retirement Cities for Active Adults
One of the most important considerations for aging Americans is whether they can afford retirement. According to a recent survey from the Employee Benefit Research Institute, fewer than one in five workers are "very confident" they will have enough money to retire. This places a heavy focus on affordability in ...
Sherwin-Williams 2019 Colormix® Color Forecast
This fall, the design and real estate investing sectors are closer than ever before thanks to the ubiquitous “real estate reality” shows dominating our television screens. Last year, American investors flipped a record-setting 207,000 single-family homes. At the same time, a single television network hosted more than a dozen real ...
Vintage Style Brings Loyal Tenants, Steady Returns
Carla Price has always run her real estate business her own way, and that has created a unique demand for her boutique, vintage apartments in Chicago that has lasted more than 50 years. Price started her real estate business in the DePaul area of Lincoln Park in the 1960s and ...
Top 3 Cities for Solo First-Time Homebuyers
As more homebuyers opt to buy a home without a spouse or partner, American homebuying patterns are shifting with the trend. According to Pew Research, about 42 percent of Americans lived without a spouse or partner in 2017. That number is up three percent from a decade prior. For individuals ...
The Looming Rebirth of the Single-Family Rental Industry
More than 1 trillion dollars in U.S. real estate equity is going to be consolidated over the next decade. The single-family rental (SFR) industry, which emerged as an institutional asset 10 years ago, is being reborn as a commercial real estate food group now. The apartment industry is adopting single ...
Millennials Placing Top Priority on Homeownership
Millennials are placing a high value on homeownership these days. In fact, they may prioritize it over other life milestones, including marriage and having children. A recent report from Bank of America—the Homebuyer Insights Report—indicates nearly three in four millennials consider homeownership a top priority. Respondents equated homeownership to a status ...
4 Must-Haves in Your Contractor Agreements
Any successful property transformation will rely on a successful relationship with your contractor. While many investors still pride themselves on “handshake agreements” within their local professional community, a solid, written agreement will protect you. It also shows professional courtesy to your team members (contractors) and indicates that you want to ...
Market Analyst Predicts “Pain Point” is Coming
Market Analyst Wolf Richter is warning real estate investors that the line in the sand for real estate may come sooner than expected. Richter, author of the Wolf Street Blog, writes the movement of the average interest rate for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage with a 20 percent down payment over ...
Best Neighborhoods for Real Estate Buying and Investing
The ATTOM Data Solutions 2018 Neighborhood Housing Index uses new neighborhood boundary data to rank more than 10,000 neighborhood housing markets nationwide based on six factors impacting the hyperlocal housing market: affordability, home price appreciation, school scores, crime rates, unemployment rates and property taxes. The top five U.S. neighborhood housing ...
San Francisco Investor Replaces Ranch Home with $20 Million Mansion
When you think of a hot housing market, you probably think of a sellers’ market. In this scenario, sellers sit in the catbird seat. Eager buyers make their highest and best offers as quickly as they can, in hopes of snagging a property. This describes much of the Bay Area ...
Renovation Rockstar: Beach Airbnb
When Neal and Cory Barnett, co-owners at List & Sell Realty, first snagged a great deal on a Topsail Island beachside property in North Carolina by preemptively bidding before the official auction date, they planned to fix up the weathered, two-unit vacation rental and flip it to another buyer. However, ...
OREIA’s National Real Estate Summit to Focus on Emerging Industry Issues
*Sponsored Content The Ohio Real Estate Investors Association (OREIA)’s 33rd National Real Estate Summit will tackle tough topics in the industry this year, including how to find deals in inventory-tight markets, how to make money with small, residential income properties, and how to find funding for your deals. The summit ...
Lack of innovation makes real estate ripe for proptech
A historical void of innovation in real estate has opened a world of opportunity for so-called proptech startups that are attracting billions of dollars from venture capitalists. Proptech — short for property technology — is a relatively new term referring to the sector of startups that create new products or business ...
Tile Options for Your Investment Properties
Many investors groan when they hear the word “tile.” After all, the process of laying tile can be time-consuming, dusty, and expensive. However, this flooring comes with some big advantages (and there is a way to speed up installation as well). Investors choosing to tile a property have many options ...
Looking Back at Harvey to See Forward in Houston
Houston may not be the leading trendsetter for fashion and culture, but it is a thriving town where 2.45 million working professionals enjoy long, stable careers in energy, manufacturing, aeronautics and transportation. The city’s population and real estate market are often driven more by business than glamor; but over the ...
Areas Affected by Hurricane Florence Could See Vets in Foreclosure
Areas of North and South Carolina affected by Hurricane Florence could experience long-term fallout in their housing markets. Carolinas Have a Higher Rate of VA Mortgages The FEMA-declared disaster region contains 1.2 million properties. According to a study from Black Knight Inc., about 474,000 properties have at least one mortgage ...
3 Ways to Make the Most on Your Flip
As a realtor working in the Boston area, I have spent some serious time in the middle of a “hot market.” However, I frequently encounter investors who are not getting hot prices on their flips. Usually, this is directly linked to a few common misconceptions nearly every seller, investor or ...
