Andrew Waite
As Residential Real Estate Investing Continues Its March Toward Mainstream Acceptance and Maturation, Can 'Investment As A Service' Be Far Behind? Software as a Service, or SaaS, is the term given to software applications that are sold as a Web-based subscription service. The previous generation of application sales required a ...
A Demand Spike Before the Pause?
A DEMAND SPIKE BEFORE THE PAUSE? Rising interest rates, while not yet a drag on housing sales because cash purchases exceed 50% of total Single Family Residential unit sales, have awoken the laggards in the home buying market. This is apparent from a slowing in the expansion homes available for ...
Color of money It is very easy to make generalizations about markets and trends, and for a top-level snapshot analysis this may be quite acceptable. Such is the case with July 22nd housing sales data announcement from the National Association of Realtors. “Total existing-home sales (completed transactions for single-family homes, ...
Dust, Lust, and Rust: Investors Hold the Key to Market Repair
SEASONAL SLOWDOWN OR FUNDAMENTAL SHIFT? Housing sales are up in key markets. This is not in dispute. The numbers are easy to read. But as investors we must constantly remind ourselves the pure number is just a snapshot that ignores history, context and a part of a continuum. The latest ...
What April 2013 Real Estate Trends Mean to Investors
Think Realty Magazine publishes these trend analyses using Altos Research data to help investors identify changes — and indicators of change — in the market and determine how to take advantage of that information. What you see is what you passed! Indianapolis 500 drivers and fighter pilots will tell you that ...
Why Stocks, Bonds and Funds do not Compare to Income Property
I have a distinct bias for real estate as an investment. This preference is based not just on principle but also on practice and the very real returns and values not found in any other asset. Try this: You can invest in real estate assets Secure them by title filed with ...
