Carole VanSickle Ellis
In today’s fast-paced world where friends, family and colleagues are no more than a Snapchat away, where you can deposit a check via smartphone instead of visiting the bank, it is not surprising that more and more investors are looking to the internet for investment opportunities. Increasingly, individuals are seeking ...
Open any browser window to any news outlet of just about any persuasion and the headlines will scream at you: The Bust is Coming! The Next Housing Crisis! Read the coverage associated with these headlines and you’ll learn that the “new” housing crisis is composed of two separate but entwined ...
Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) is not just the primary international airport serving the state of Texas and the largest hub for American Airlines, which also has its headquarters nearby. DFW is also a perfect example of the flexibility and creativity that makes the entire Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex an interesting ...
Dallas-Fort Worth: The Heat is (Still) On
When a city starts making regular appearances on multiple “overheated housing market” lists, real estate investors start to get a little antsy about their holdings in the area. Those who were considering putting money into those markets grasp their checkbooks a little more tightly. In the case of the Dallas-Fort Worth ...
2016 Top 10 Investing Hot Spots
The national housing market continues to heat up, with U.S. home sales hitting a nine-year high in May and home prices soaring 4.7 percent year-over-year in the same month. Add to that $636.7 billion in much-needed new construction (again, on a national level) up 5 percent in May over April, ...
When Andy Williams returned from four years in the U.S. Marine Corps, he faced a tough transition. “I was in an anti-terrorism team,” he recalls. When he returned to civilian life, he managed and expanded the real estate portfolio he had begun to build from overseas while he was in ...
Brief History of the Twin Cities
Although Minneapolis and St. Paul are very nearly the perfect pair today, the Twin Cities were not always so happy to share their success with each other. Back in the 1890s, local law enforcement would actually arrest and jail census takers from the other city in order to prevent them ...
Twin Cities Real Estate Investing in 2016
The Twin Cities are ideally situated to generate wealth for investors hoping to access mid-range buyers who value family, safety and stability. A True ‘Crystal-Ball Market’ In 2014, Trulia researchers, headed by the website’s chief economist, Jed Kolko, pulled all the available housing data from the past 24 years on ...
The 2016 Twin Cities Housing Market At A Glance
The Twin Cities housing market has become a buyer's market in 2016 thanks to an improving economy, a lower jobless rate and rising equity. A lack of inventory is slowly pushing up sales prices. But the recovery is uneven, with some areas seeing fast appreciation, while others are languishing, according ...
Potential of a San Diego Housing Market Bubble in 2016
San Diego is receiving a great deal of scrutiny these days from experts and economists doing their best to identify the tipping point of a housing bubble as far in advance as possible. The result, unfortunately for investors, is a stew of conflicting opinions that could actually expedite a bust ...
2016 State of the Oklahoma City Housing Market
The 2016 Oklahoma City housing market has continued with relatively steady growth and may actually represent an opportunity for a careful, savvy real estate investor willing to do his or her research and only buy when the time and the property are right. The Oil Factor and Economic Insulation First, any ...
