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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.
Understanding the Pros and Cons of Investing in Real Estate
Investing in real estate involves the purchasing of properties to increase your assets and possibly profit from this action. Since it is considered to be less risky compared to other investments, real estate acquisition can be a great addition to your investment portfolio. It is also known to be a ...
4 Smart Ways To Become A Successful Real Estate Investor
Real estate brings tremendous profit if the investment game is played tactfully. Real estate is not a happy-go-lucky kind of investment venture, you need to plan and play your game with close observations and strategize your every move. A single investment may make or break your entire investment game. If ...
How Investors and Renters Should Assess a Neighborhood in New York
You’re living the dream now. A respectable figure in the bank, an arguably good number of choices to find a sense of solace in a place like New York—but wait. Since you have come so far, you would want to make the most of your money and space now, wouldn’t ...
Why Market Price is the Right Price in Dubai
The performance of Dubai’s property market in 2021 has been nothing short of phenomenal, with transaction levels of Dh88.12 billion ($23.99bn) in the first 8 months - surpassing the entire volume of 2020’s transactions by 22.6% according to data from real estate portal Property Finder. It is an incredible rebound ...
6 Tax Breaks for First-time Investors
Real estate can be a lucrative long-term investment for your portfolio. It can also provide you with tax breaks and deductions along the way. But real estate tax law can be tricky, particularly for first-time investors. It’s important to do your research and understand all of the codes and breaks ...
10 Things You Can Outsource for Your Property as an Investor
Managing an investment property is a huge commitment. It takes a lot of time, money, and dedication to be successful. Luckily, you don’t need to do everything on your own. For example, owning a long-term rental or an Airbnb takes a lot of upkeep, but property managers, online platforms, and ...
3 Steps to Flip Houses for Quick Profits
One of the most significant changes in the housing market over the last decade has been house flipping. In this real estate transaction, a home is quickly bought and sold to make a profit. When flipping, an investor buys a property to sell as soon as possible, generally within 12 ...
5 Ways Rental Management Software Can Save You Time and Money
Managing your property entails repetitive administrative tasks that are time consuming and monotonous. Thankfully, there are numerous software available that enable you to streamline these rental tracking and property management tasks. Key time-saving features to look out for include income and expense tracking, with bank feed connection capabilities document storage, ...
Industrial Real Estate Report: How E-Commerce & Global Shipping Defined 2021
Economic downturns, like the one caused by the pandemic, have ripple effects that are felt at every level of the economy—and the real estate market was no exception to this rule. The effects of work-from-home mandates and reduced consumer spending were felt in commercial real estate, though some asset classes ...
With current U.S. real estate prices surging out-of-control, let’s look at five reasons why global real estate investing in Panama can be a great way to diversify your portfolio. Many U.S. properties are being sold for 10-22 percent over the asking price. On top of this surge, many buyers are ...
Diversify Your Portfolio with Self-Storage
Did you notice how the government didn’t place rent restrictions, moratoriums, etc. on self-storage during the pandemic? That’s because they not focused on someone’s stuff that has been collecting dust for years sitting in a metal box. While single and multi-family landlords have been feeling the heat, self-storage is gaining ...
Political Advocacy in the REI Industry
Every year in every state capital and every day in Washington, D.C. and your local town, politicians get together to pass laws. The simple truth is that most Americans blissfully go about their day with no knowledge that elected officials meeting behind closed doors are in the process of “goring ...
5 Factors for Real REI Success
Many real estate investors tend to get caught in the trap of believing that since we have been investing in real estate for years that we have that many years of experience. “How many years of experience do you have?” “I’ve got 18 years of experience in real estate investing,” ...
The Abstract Side of Real Estate
What does it even mean to invest in real estate? Historically, you buy a building. You develop. You occupy. You rent. You manage. Real estate has always been, literally, something real and tangible, something you can touch. But over time, as with every other investment type, real estate has become ...
Bursting the Real Estate Bubble Concerns
While it might feel like we’re in a similar housing market bubble circa 2006, it’s not the same. In order for there to be a bubble in the first place, there has to be a catalyst that causes the housing market to crash. Historically, there are a variety of factors ...
The New Think Realty Government Relations Committee
Earlier this year, Think Realty started its own Government Relations Committee (GRC) to help spur REI-friendly legislation in state legislatures and Congress. The Why Behind the Movement Tackling issues like these often starts with semantics. In Think Realty’s Realty Matters article series last year, contributor Brian Wojcik spoke about the ...
With travel picking up again, short-term rental hosts are fully engaged to capitalize on the excitement. But in the rush to attain some semblance of new normalcy, it’s important that owners take a moment to understand new efforts to enforce marketplace legislation around lodging, lest they trip into the myriad ...
Add Value to Your Home With These Upgrades
Timing for an upgrade to your home, or even home improvements, might never be perfect, but now is as good a time as any to begin the projects you want to complete. While you might have no interest right now in selling, that doesn’t mean you need to put that ...
The Indispensable Guide to Selling Your Home
Ready to sell your home? If you’re feeling the pull to put your home up for sale, it helps to know the best strategic moves to be successful. Curious about how to get the best results when it comes to selling your home? Here are key considerations to guide your ...
3 Ways to Invest in the UK Property Market
The UK property market is on track to record its strongest year since 2007, with nearly £500bn (~$680bn) in home sales and annual house price inflation currently averaging 13% across the country. Many analysts are forecasting continued momentum in the UK market, despite potential headwinds such as increased living costs ...
New Study Reveals Growing Disparity Between Income and Home Prices Nationwide
It’s not just you — buying a home has objectively gotten a lot more difficult the past several years. That’s one of the primary findings of a new study by Real Estate Witch, which uses an analysis of publicly available U.S. Census data to paint a disturbing picture of the ...
Top 3 Property Management Solutions Perfect for DIY Landlords
Being a self-employed landlord can be challenging. Although many newbie landlords are still collecting paper applications and receiving payments by check, it is much simpler to use helpful digital tools to manage rentals more effectively and save more time to expand businesses, grow portfolios, and spend quality time with their ...
Looking to Sell? Here Are Your Best Options
Not long ago, homeowners wishing to sell their houses only had one option. They called a real estate agent. The agent showed their home, had open houses, and eventually sold their house. It was the accepted (and only) method of selling, so homeowners went with it. Today’s real estate market ...
Like many real estate investors, the 2008 market crash caused Jorge Abreu to re-evaluate his career and his future. His next steps, however, were likely not the same as the path forward for others: He moved halfway across the country with his fiancée and a lifelong friend, renting a home ...
Property Development Is About People
It is easy to get lost in the finer points of property development when there are so many moving pieces that developers are responsible for managing. Between acquiring professional teams, project deadlines, budget revisions, risk management, and compliance with local ordinances, a developer must always be on call. The most ...
