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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.
Oscars Affect One Movie-Titled Real Estate Market
After the Academy Awards announced the movie “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” as an Oscar contender, the real estate market saw an increase in viewership – just not the market you might expect. According to the National Association of Realtors (NAR), visitors to Realtor.com spent a fair amount of time ...
Section 1031’s Journey from Obscurity
The journey of the tax code pursuant to IRC section 1031 is striking when viewed against this moment in United States real estate history. Never before have U.S. real estate investors acquired and stood with so much appreciation in real estate in such a short period of time. Never before ...
Robot Real Estate Agents Showing Properties
If you wish you could show every one of your properties in person without ever leaving your office, then you could soon have that wish granted. Robot guides are successfully showing properties, creating floor plans, and even shooting videos for listings in California. In one Woodland Hills brokerage, robots will ...
Foreign Investor Population Changing in U.S. Markets
Chinese buyers have dominated the conversation about foreign interests in U.S. real estate for years, but that trend appears to be shifting. According to research from the National Association of Realtors (NAR), despite massive spending on the part of Chinese buyers, the influx of Chinese capital into U.S. markets is ...
Should I Wholesale or Fix & Flip?
So, you’ve found a great real estate deal and a motivated seller ready to hand you the keys at closing. At this point, you may debate whether to wholesale the deal to another investor buyer for quick cash or to rehab the property yourself, which will obviously take longer but ...
Brutal Honesty from Multifamily Investor
Dallas, Texas – When Brad Sumrok, founder and CEO of Apartment Investor Mastery, first started investing in apartment buildings, he wasn’t in it for the love of real estate. He was in it for what real estate could do for him. “I like investing in apartments, but you didn’t hear ...
Section 8 Pros and Cons Broken Down
If you are a landlord with a few properties or even a massive portfolio to rent out, chances are you've wondered to yourself at one time or another whether or not you should start accepting Section 8 housing subsidies for low-income tenants. This can be a difficult choice to make, ...
Homebuyers Heading for Texas, the Millennial Wave
Dallas, Texas – Millennials are the largest generation since the Baby Boomers, and it turns out they have a taste for Texas. Michael Miller, CMO at 5Arch Group, broke down the ramifications of an inbound Millennial population on the Texas housing market and Texas real estate investors in a market ...
Sustainable Roofing Turns to Plants
In Door County, Wisconsin, Al Johnson’s Swedish Restaurant has been renowned for decades for its grass roof. Yes, it is really grass, and not only is the entire roof growing green grass, but it is adorned with goats. Needless to say, there is nearly always a spectacle while driving down ...
3 Forces Working Against Your Retirement Portfolio
Dallas, Texas – “Why is it that only five in every 100 people are financially secure at age 65?” Edwin Kelly, CEO of Specialized IRA Services, took some dramatic steps toward isolating the reason for this disturbing statistic at the Think Realty National Conference & Expo in Dallas, Texas, on ...
5G Technology Slated for Four Cities in 2018
Imagine using your phone to do just about anything with just about no delays ever. That dream could become a reality for certain cellular customers by the end of 2018. AT&T recently announced three cities would have access to its 5G service by the end of 2018 and promised that ...
Anyone who’s been in real estate long has heard of the various percent rules floating about; the 70 percent rule, the 50 percent rule and the dreaded 2 percent rule. These rules are, of course, just rules of thumb to be helpful guides when evaluating properties. But while I believe ...
Fed’s Asset Purchases During 2008 Questioned
Skeptical economists have authored and presented a paper criticizing the Federal Reserve’s asset purchases during the 2008 financial crisis. They argue that in the future, instead of making large scale asset purchases (LSAP), which were a key part of quantitative easing (QE) in the wake of the housing and financial ...
Telemarketing Scam Targeted Investors
The U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Illinois recently indicted two California residents on charges related to a national telemarketing scam targeting real estate investors. The charges included conspiracy to commit wire fraud and mail fraud, and result from the two individuals’ participation in a scheme that involved selling ...
ATTOM Data Solutions Acquires Onboard Informatics
ATTOM Data Solutions, announced it has acquired Onboard Informatics, the leading provider of neighborhood data and data-enabled turnkey products to the real estate industry. “Onboard has a long and accomplished track record as an innovator in enhancing and democratizing neighborhood data assets, paralleling our own mission of powering real estate ...
Nashville Housing Market offers Room to Grow
Nashville, Tennessee, is, quite simply, sitting in the catbird seat when it comes to real estate. The “Music City,” so named in 1950 by radio broadcaster David Cobb thanks to its longstanding position as the home of country music, is hitting all the right notes these days. Positioned in the ...
Single-Family Rental Rates Up Year-Over-Year
According to the CoreLogic Single-Family Rent Index (SFRI), 2017’s rents were higher than those of 2016. This continues a seven-year trend of rising rents that started in 2010, although analysts noted that the price growth rate has decelerated gradually since it peaked at 4.3 percent in February 2016. The index ...
Foreclosure Rates Lower in Highest-Risk ZIP Codes
ATTOM Data Solutions, released its 2017 Environmental Hazards Housing Risk Index, which shows median home prices in U.S. ZIP codes in the highest 20 percent for environmental hazard risk appreciated at a faster pace than the overall U.S housing market over the past year, past five years and past 10 ...
7 Ways to Determine Your Property’s Value
Real estate values estimation has several uses ranging from sale listings of real estate and analysis of investments to property taxes and insurances. However, it’s particularly necessary when it comes to real estate sales and passive investing. After all, the property value is not just based on the initial payment made or ...
Hall of Fame Coach Mack Brown inspires at Think Realty Conference in Dallas
We had a blast at our Dallas Conference & Expo with former University of Texas head football coach and our event kickoff speaker, Mack Brown. Watch along as Brown offers insights into how to be successful in life and in business—starting with practical tips you can implement today. Thank you, ...
Credit, Using it Creatively & Responsibly
I once used a promotional “zero-percent-interest-and-zero-points" cash advance feature on my $25,000-limit credit card to buy a $25,000 property. Then, I refinanced it with a local community bank at 100 percent loan-to-cost (75 percent loan-to-appraised- value) within six months, right before the initial interest free period expired. That credit card ...
Green Pig Marketing Stunt Backfires on Brokerage
A real estate brokerage expanding into the Seattle, Washington, market got a lot of attention recently with a marketing campaign that may have misfired. The company installed about 1,500 small, green pig cutouts around the city to announce its new presence. The idea was to demonstrate how the company would ...
Redefining Legacy: It’s Not Just Financial Wealth
Many years ago, I was asked to give a speech in Charleston, South Carolina, to an audience of extremely wealthy men who were nearing early retirement. At that point in my life, I had already spoken on behalf of dozens of great corporations, albeit mostly about setting and achieving big ...
Dallas Area Investors Reveal Market Insights
Dallas, Texas – Seven local investors spent an hour digging into the local Dallas-Fort Worth real estate market this past Saturday, February 24, 2018, at the Think Realty National Conference & Expo. The Local Market Panel, hosted by Cathy Crowe of All Star Home Group, consisted of local experts from ...
Dallas, Texas – “We are all in different phases of stuck, and we need a bridge to productivity.” Robert Nickell, founder of REIVA, summed up his personal experience in real estate with these words. Nickell’s company offers the services of trained, dedicated virtual assistants (VAs) to real estate investors to ...
