Fannie Mae's has released its March 2016 Monthly Summary, containing information about the mortgage provider’s monthly and year-to-date activities for its gross mortgage portfolio, mortgage-backed...
Housing Market
Housing Market
The Insider’s Guide to Rent Estate
| 9 pages | 2,592 words | half hour read | Excerpt The crash of 2008. The rise of Millennials as the nation’s largest demographic. Uber, Airbnb and the emergence of the “sharing economy.” The...
The Good News: Real Estate Is Booming. The Bad News: Real Estate Is Booming.
There’s little argument that the real estate market right now is hot. That’s good news for real estate investors, but it’s also bad—or let’s instead call it “challenging”—news. While the level of...
Chicago: Lessons from the most beat-up housing market in the country
For years, our thesis has been that the national downturn and recovery (in blue below) will play out similarly to the mid-1980s downturn in Houston (in orange below) and the early-1990s downturn in...
Rental Market Trends
MSAs in South Region Rank at Top of RentRange List of Markets with Largest SFR Rent Increases from Q4 2014 to Q4 2015 Markets in the South region in Florida, Louisiana, Arkansas and Tennessee...
A Flip of the Numbers
Home Flipping Up in 2015 After Four-Year Slide, RealtyTrac Year-End Report Shows RealtyTrac’s Year-End and Q4 2015 U.S. Home Flipping Report shows that 179,778 U.S. single-family homes and condos...
To Sell or Not to Sell
Carefully Consider Your Situation Before Rushing into a Sale of Your Investment Property You’ve held a property for years, and now, for one reason or another, you’re thinking it might be time to...
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...
Student Housing Boom: Increasing Higher-Ed Enrollment Points to Opportunity in Rentals
Student enrollment in U.S. universities and colleges has been on an upward trend for the past decade, and it is expected to continue throughout 2016 and beyond. As President Obama noted in his State...
On Second Thought
Which One Makes the Most Financial Sense for Your Second Home: Vacation or Long-Term Rental? Second homes are increasing in popularity, with more and more Americans looking to buy vacation property....
