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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.
Housing Demand Falls 6.5 Percent Thanks to Late Winter Blues
Fewer home sellers requested home tours and wrote offers last month than they, did in the middle of winter, an unusual break in the traditional spring housing “heat” most real estate professionals have come to expect. According to Redfin’s Housing Demand index, which measures how many customers exhibit behaviors that ...
Retail Vacancy Rates Close in on Record Highs
For the past 10 years, CoStar Group, a commercial real estate services firm, has been tracking how much retail space closes each year. Retail properties are used to sell consumer goods and services, but there is a great deal of variety among this type of real estate. Retail real estate ...
Homebuyers Making Offers Sight-Unseen in Traditionally Affordable Markets
Homebuyers are getting desperate for deals – any deals at all – and it is creating a buying frenzy the likes of which has not been seen in many markets in more than a decade, if ever. According to Ralph McLaughlin, chief economist of Veritas Urbis Economics, Spring 2018 could ...
Auction.com Partners With Think Realty Radio
Think Realty Radio has secured a partnership agreement with Auction.com, the nation’s leading online real estate marketplace focused exclusively on the sale of residential bank-owned and foreclosure properties. Auction.com sponsors the Think Realty Radio show on Thursdays. Think Realty, the industry leader in real estate investor resources, education and best ...
Foreclosure Rates Rising in Texas and Florida as Disaster Moratoria End
March 2018 foreclosure numbers were up 11.56 percent, or by 52,100 foreclosure starts, nationally over February 2018 according to a Black Knight report. Of that increase, Florida and Texas foreclosures were responsible for two-thirds. Of note: Compared to March 2017, foreclosure starts were still down 13.6 percent. Black Knight analysts ...
3 Listing Descriptions that Netted Sellers Double-Digit Advantages in 2017
Every homebuyer has a “wish list” for their future home, but certain items on that list could add nearly 30 percent to your sales price. According to a new report from Zillow, certain listing terms snagged sellers huge premiums on their homes at the closing table. Knowing which items to ...
Is that Home Inspection Worth It?
This article was originally featured in March 2018 Think Realty Magazine and written by Adam Pontier, owner of KCPE LLC. When I was young, my father bought a home that we gutted to the bare studs and put back together as our family home. This was my first taste of construction ...
5 Important Factors for Success in Residential Assisted Living Investments
This article was originally featured in March 2018 Think Realty Magazine and written by Gene Guarino, president and CEO of RAL Academy. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, approximately 10,000 Americans turn 65 every day while another 4,000 turn 85 every day. That is a huge opportunity for savvy real estate ...
Managing Large Portfolios of Properties
This article was originally featured in March 2018 Think Realty Magazine and written by Douglas Skipworth, Co-Founder and Principal Broker at CrestCore Realty. Did you know that the typical property management client owns “1.5 units?” Despite that low (and strangely divisive) number, the National Association of Residential Property Managers (NARPM) estimates ...
This article was originally featured in March 2018 Think Realty Magazine and written by Julie Ziglar Norman, realtor with Prime Properties Realty. Investing in real estate is one thing. Building wealth by investing in real estate is another. The first scenario is often a short-term, one-off plan; the second represents a plan ...
How the Internet is Changing Education and Real Estate
This article was originally featured in March 2018 Think Realty Magazine and written by Aaron Norris, VP of The Norris Group. Would you rather take an investment course from a local university professor with mild success managing a small portfolio or from Warren Buffet? Your answer is hopefully the latter ...
Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) May Drive Millennial Home Sales
If your friends have recently purchased a home, then the odds are good you might start thinking about doing the same. If they’re posting about it on social media, however, you’re probably going to take some action. According to a new survey from Bank of America, about a third of ...
U.S. and U.K. Warn Private Homeowners About Russian Cyberattacks on Smart Devices
The United States and Great Britain have issued a new type of national alert: a warning about cyber attacks on individuals and private property. The two countries issued a joint alert this week indicating that private homeowners should be aware their internet devices are not only susceptible to hacking by ...
Renters Warehouse CEO Announced As New Think Realty Resident Expert
Kevin Ortner, CEO of Renters Warehouse, has been named Think Realty’s newest Resident Expert! His first two courses, Buy & Hold Strategies and Building your Rent Estate Portfolio, will focus on helping investors build wealth through rentals. Think Realty selected Ortner as a Resident Expert for his expertise in the ...
2018 Could be the Worst Year Yet for Housing Affordability
Thanks to rising home prices, rising interest rates, and rising demand for housing, housing affordability is likely to plummet over the course of 2018. Housing affordability, which is defined as the median price of a home that a household earning median income can afford using a third of their income ...
Price-Gouging Charges Leveled Against California Landlord
When wildfires destroyed thousands of homes in California last fall, tens of thousands of residents were displaced. As those households began to seek new places to live and to rebuild, many investors flocked to California as well. This is part of the housing/natural disaster cycle: When disaster strikes, real estate ...
Smart Wallpaper is Flame-Retardant, Alerts Homeowners in Event of Fire
Researchers at Shanghai’s Institute of Ceramics have developed a wallpaper that not only delay the spread of a fire but might call the fire department for you as well. The paper consists of fire-resistant materials including graphene oxide and hydroxyapatite nanowires. The combination enables the wallpaper to “sense” when heat ...
3 Reasons to Invest in Small Towns
This article was originally featured in March 2018 Think Realty Magazine and written by Michael Miller, Chief Marketing Officer of 5 Arch Funding. Are you an investor seeking fresh opportunities? If you haven’t yet considered fix-and-flip or rental property investments in small towns, now may be the time. Of course, any ...
4 Unique Ways to Source Off-Market Apartment Deals
This article was originally featured in March 2018 Think Realty Magazine and written by Joe Fairless, Principal at Ashcroft Capital. The most common type of apartment transaction is an on-market sale. An apartment owner lists their property with a broker, the broker markets the deal to the public, and, after a ...
Detroit Resident Makes Over Neighborhood, Builds Rental Portfolio
Jeff Cowin moved into Detroit’s Virginia Park historic district in 2010 when the area was still full of abandoned homes, blighted buildings, squatters, and crime. At the time, neither Cowin nor the neighborhood had any idea just how positive the new homeowner would be for the area. Today, Cowin’s street ...
Metro Detroit Home Prices Set to Rise
Thanks to relatively low unemployment, rising interest rates, a dearth of new construction, a large population of new metro residents, and tight housing inventory, Detroit, Michigan’s housing market could be heading into a heated territory. According to reports from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the area’s unemployment is hovering ...
Zillow Makes Waves with Pilot of Home-Sales Platform
This week, Zillow announced it will begin both buying and selling properties directly from and to homeowners, meaning that it will purchase homes directly from sellers, then resell those properties to buyers. The program will start as a test in two markets, Las Vegas and Phoenix, this spring. The move ...
10 Mistakes Property Owners Make When Writing their Property Listing
When it comes to marketing a rental property, many investors (myself included at one point) believe that a compelling set of numbers trumps any other information you might include in your property listing. While this might be the case once a buyer or potential tenant looks at those numbers, if ...
JFK Airport in New York No Longer in the “Top 20” for World’s Busiest Airports
New York’s JFK Airport is, according to the International Air Transport Association, no longer among the world’s 20 busiest airports. The reason, the ATA speculated, is likely “explosive growth of Asian airports” in New Delhi, India, and Guangzhou, China. Both locations’ airports recently entered the top 20. Atlanta, Georgia’s Hartsfield-Jackson ...
Activists Express Concern Over Amazon HQ2 and Housing
Shortly after naming 20 cities to its “short list” as finalists for its second headquarters, Amazon.com issued a demand for confidentiality on all offers and negotiations between those cities and itself on the topic of HQ2. According to Amazon, the project will bring in $5 billion in investments to the ...
