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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.
Moratorium on Foreclosures for Christmas
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac announced the second week in December that both GSEs would, as is traditional, place a hold on holiday evictions lasting from December 18, 2017, to January 2, 2018. The suspension applies not just to single-family homes, but also duplexes, triplexes, and quadplexes. The moratorium will ...
6 Tips on Selling During the Holidays
Not so long ago, selling a property during the holidays was to be avoided at all costs. Who wants to look at houses when everyone is busy with parties and family? Buyers and sellers were advised to wait until spring. With the advent of online listings, home sales have become ...
Remembering Kent Davis of Equistream
Kent, a lifelong pastor and missionary, was also the owner of Equistream, a real estate investment firm that helped break down the barrier between investors at all levels of expertise and income. That accessibility extended not just into real estate, but to Kent’s personal philosophy as well. The first 35 ...
Take a moment to consider the following questions: Are you spending all your time chasing down “slow pay” tenants rather than expanding your real estate portfolio and refining your investing strategies? Do you find the idea of turning over control of your real estate investments completely, i.e. “going turnkey,” just ...
Nike Relocates Away from Trump Tower Retail Space
Despite being in possession of a five-year lease on prime retail real estate in Manhattan’s premier retail corridor, Nike recently announced that it would relocate its Niketown store five blocks away from the current location. The company has refused to disclose the reason for the move, but reporters at Crain’s ...
Median Down Payment for Homes Up in Q3
ATTOM Data Solutions, released its Q3 2017 U.S. Residential Property Loan Origination Report, showing that the median down payment for single family homes and condos purchased with financing in the third quarter was $20,000, up from $18,161 in the previous quarter and up from $14,400 in Q3 2016 to a ...
5 REI Biases that can Destroy Wealth
What if investors’ brains are wired to make the wrong decisions in real estate? A new research paper released by Fidelity International indicates we could be the victims of our own neural connections – at least when it comes to certain built-in biases about how risk, rewards, and geography affect ...
Rental Vacancy: Reduce Your Financial Risk
Real estate investment can be a profitable venture. Regardless of how experienced you are in the industry, investing in a rental property can lead to rewarding gains. As with any investment, there is a risk you take when investing in rental properties; like an unexpected vacancy. The definition of vacancy ...
Think Realty Introduces On-Air Show for Wall Street Radio
Think Realty will debut its new Think Realty Radio show January 1, 2018, on Wall Street Radio! The national show will be hosted by real estate investor, educator, radio personality, Think Realty Resident Expert and regular Forbes contributor, Abhi Golhar. Think Realty Radio will air Monday through Friday. Each hour-long ...
Flipping Returns Drop to Two-Year Low in Q3 2017
ATTOM Data Solutions released its Q3 2017 U.S. Home Flipping Report, which shows that single family homes and condos flipped in the third quarter yielded an average gross flipping profit of $66,448 per flip, representing an average 47.7 percent return on investment for flippers — down from 48.7 percent in ...
Federal Tax Reform: 3 States that Could be Hit Hard
Late last week, the U.S. Senate passed a sweeping federal tax reform bill that has been highly controversial and was approved wholly along party lines, with all but one republican senator voting for the bill and all democrat senators voting against it. Among other things, the bill will affect state ...
Year-End Best Practices for Your Real Estate Investment Business
Listen in as our Resident Experts Ben Rao, Linda Liberatore, and Abhi Golhar discuss their year-end practices. Are you doing everything you can to wrap the year up right? These Experts let us in on what they are doing right now, and what they know they have overlooked, for their ...
Top 20 Markets for Defensive Investing
With the national economy slowing down (yes, it is), and the Fed promising to raise interest rates, investors may want to take a step back from their current investing strategy and consider their options. Use this information when researching markets. High-Side Markets On the one hand, there are markets where ...
Top 10 RE Markets for Business & Healthcare
Despite political wrangling, healthcare will be a growing portion of the U.S. economy as Americans get sicker and older and as science spits out new drugs and treatment options. A growing local healthcare industry not only provides jobs directly, but also through the many associated business services it needs in ...
Bitcoin Enters the Real Estate Sector
Most real estate investors probably think about bitcoin mainly in terms of whether they are going to invest in the currency before it hits its next record high or wait until the volatile cryptocurrency tanks (at least temporarily) before getting in. However, an increasing number of landlords, sellers, and other ...
Creative Down Payment Options REIs Need to Know About
According to multiple surveys by the National Association of Realtors (NAR), many would-be homebuyers are opting not to explore their options in the housing market because they believe that they cannot afford the down payment associated with buying a home. While this view is largely inaccurate, the prevailing notion that ...
3 Things About Investing in Detroit to Know in 2018
The Motor City may offer single family rental (SFR) investors the best of all possible worlds in 2018. If you know how to gain the upper hand in the housing market that is. According to Corey Hanker, managing partner at Fortus Partners, these days, “It’s investor advantage in Detroit!” Hanker, ...
Single-Family Rentals Look Bright for 2018
According to a panel of six premier experts in the investment industry, 2018 is going to be a good year for single-family rentals (SFR). Although, as always, the local market is everything. During the opening session of IMN’s 6th Annual SFR Investment Forum (West) on December 3, 2017, in Scottsdale, ...
Build Your Real Estate Business on a Firm Foundation
In the real estate business, you have to have a firm foundation – literally. If your property has a cracked foundation, you will likely take serious losses as you deal with shifting floors, instability, falling property values, and banks are less interested in lending you money. Just as a bad ...
Investment Property Depreciation Explained
Rental investment properties tend to come with benefits when tax time rolls around. When it comes to purchasing real estate properties for investment purposes, it is important for investors to understand the tax benefits and laws which will affect your particular situation. What is Depreciation? A key tax deduction available ...
4 Bonus Aspects of a Positive Market
Although every real estate market is unique and holds its own particular set of opportunities, there are four positive market characteristics that make any market in which they occur a little bit brighter. Can you have a good real estate market without all four of these characteristics? Absolutely! But if ...
Facebook Rental Listings: Real Estate Game Changer?
Home listing sites like Zillow and Redfin may be shaking in their cloud-based data boots. They will be facing what could be a towering social media competitor. Facebook is going full-speed ahead with rental listings in its marketplace section. And plans on a significant expansion into the for-sale market. If ...
Colorado Tops ATTOM’s Q3 Pre-Mover Housing Index
ATTOM Data released its Q3 2017 Pre-Mover Housing Index, which shows that the markets with the highest pre-mover indices during the third quarter — predictive of strong sales activity in the fourth quarter — were Colorado Springs, Colorado; Manchester-Nashua, New Hampshire; Chicago, Illinois; Washington, D.C.; and Nashville, Tennessee. Using data ...
Staying True to the Mission: The American Dream
“Just about everyone's American Dream is to own their own single-family house. If they can’t own it, then they want to rent it,” says Bruce McNeilage, co-founder and CEO of Kinloch Partners, Kinloch Homes, LLC, and Harpeth Development, LLC. If you think his corporate titles are lengthy, wait until you see ...
Hurricane-Hit Florida Market Already Rebounding
Despite being hit hard by Hurricane Irma in September, the Naples, Florida, housing market closed out October 2017 on a positive note with sales increasing about one percent over the same time the previous year. Naples’ October 2017 Market The Naples Area Board of Realtors (NABOR) reported, “October could have ...
