There is an affordability crisis in cities across our nation and around the world. In the United States alone, 40 percent of renters are cost-constrained, meaning they spend more than 30 percent of...
Housing Market
Housing Market
How Fewer First-Time Home Buyers Threaten the Real Estate Market
You can’t have home sales without buyers, and the most important buyers of all are first timers. While it might seem that a sale is a sale, that’s not the case. The chain of transactions that powers...
National Trends and Regional Investing
To profit at real estate investing, one needs to be alert to both national and local real estate trends. There are macro trends that impact every U.S. housing market: growth/recession and capital...
Market Spotlight: Florida
Not all that long ago, a combination of risky loans and overzealous speculation by real estate investors and developers hit Florida harder than many other parts of the nation, turning it into one of...
How to Find & Invest in the Best Real Estate Markets
00:44:19 | As real estate investors increasingly face markets glutted with the competition or stagnating in natural market slow-downs, the answer is to get out of your comfort zone and look at...
An Economic Outlook
The current economic expansion is set to complete its tenth year this fall, surpassing the 120-month expansion of the 1990s for the longest in U.S. history, dating back to the mid-1800s. However,...
Spring into Real Estate Growth
If daffodils are blooming in the yards of local listings these days, then you may be considering making a horrible real estate investing mistake. Thanks to the toxic combination of media headlines...
Report: Latest Year-End 2018 Home Flipping Data Released
ATTOM Data Solutions recently released its Q4 and 2018 Year-End Home Flipping report that showed that 207,957 single-family homes and condos were flipped in 2018, down 4 percent from 216,537 flipped...
Report: Federal Reserve Says No Interest Rate Increases This Year
The Federal Reserve announced after its March meeting that it will leave short-term interest rates unchanged for 2019 and will not raise rates for the remainder of the year. This marks the end of...
Making the Right Moves in Every Phase of the Real Estate Market Cycle
Since the real estate crash in 2007, we have seen dramatic recovery in most markets. Many experts are saying that real estate is a bubble that will soon pop; they seem to be shouting, “Buyer...
