Market & Trends
The world of real estate investing moves quickly. Catch the must-know news, market information, and trends for the industry here.
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Market & Trends
The world of real estate investing moves quickly. Catch the must-know news, market information, and trends for the industry here.
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Investing Opportunities in Overlooked Markets
Solid returns await investors if they consider looking outside their comfort zone. Rising mortgage rates and slowing home price appreciation have compressed returns for real estate investors, but solid returns are still available in often-overlooked markets across the country for investors willing to step outside of their comfort zone. “The ...
Think Realty Magazine November/December 2023
+WHAT'S INSIDE Legislation | Sometimes Legislation Is “Signaling” Cover Story | A Restart, Not a Startup - Featuring Bill Tessar of CV3 Financial Services Design | Top It Off! Market & Trends | Investing Opportunities in Overlooked Markets • East Meets West • Top 5 Recession-Proof Markets in 2023 Funding | Real Estate Investment for ...
4 Industry Trends You Cannot Afford to Ignore
Real estate is changing … again. The post-pandemic world is a volatile one, and the real estate industry is just as susceptible to volatility as any other sector. Real estate has long been a “hedge asset,” one that is somewhat insulated from economic pressures and declines. As a result, investors ...
Price and population peaks in various markets coincided. Home prices go with the flow. The flow of population, that is. We could also call this Twin Peaks because the height of the recent home price boom seems to be a twin of the height of population growth. The boom sprang ...
Local Real Estate Investors Move from Caution to Confidence
Local investors stay disciplined even as institutional investors continue to retreat. Local real estate investors who started out the year cautiously bullish have become more confidently bullish as the housing market continues to prove its resilience in the face of elevated mortgage rates and slowing home price appreciation, according to ...
Midwest Multifamily Market Trends
Although there is increased interest in Midwest multifamily investing, the pace of interest rate hikes has slowed activity. Still, optimism remains for 2024. “Investors, who are seeing rent growth fall, are consequently shifting their money into Midwestern markets where they are still finding slow but steady growth.” —Aarthi Swaminathan, MarketWatch ...
A Look Back at 2023—and a Peak at 2024
Does investor sentiment align with market conditions? There’s no doubt the past year has been challenging for residential real estate investors. How daunting has the challenge been? What’s going on in today’s market? As we move into the second half of 2023, let’s take a look back at the first ...
Navigating Rigid Borrowing Conditions and Rising Construction Costs
Real estate investing is continually evolving, and investors must adapt to the changing conditions to achieve success. In the aftermath of the pandemic, two significant trends with a profound impact on real estate investing have emerged: stringent borrowing conditions and the increasing cost of construction. These factors are reshaping the ...
Think Realty Magazine September/October 2023
+WHAT'S INSIDE Investment Strategy | Understanding Shared-Appreciation Mortgages •12 Ways to Adapt Your Rental Property During a Recession •Rethinking Your Cannabis Real Estate Strategies • Toilet Paper and Real Property • Navigating Rigid Borrowing Conditions and Rising Construction Costs Cover Story | Titan of Multifamily: Madina Shaik, CEO of Makaan Investment Group ...
Think Realty Podcast #284 – Play the Game the Way the Game Was Built
To say the capital markets are crazy would be an understatement, so Eddie sat down with longtime friend and Think Realty member, Aaron Chapman from Security National Mortgage Company, to discuss his thoughts on the current market. They chat about if the market is going to be turbulent in the ...
92% surveyed expect foreclosure volume to increase as roll rates from delinquency rise 85% surveyed expect home prices to decrease, eroding equity for distressed homeowners Respondents estimate seriously delinquent loans have less than 20% equity on average Nearly half of seriously delinquent FHA loans have enough partial claim capacity to ...
Is Stability Finally in Sight for the Long-Term Rental Market in 2023?
There may be no time like the present to take action. As a real estate investor, you’re probably wondering what the single-family rental landscape will look like for the rest of 2023. The short answer is that buy-and-hold real estate investors should, after years of extreme volatility, have a relatively ...
The Influence of millennials and Generation Z buyers is reshaping the property market. In recent years, the property market witnessed a new tide of influence as the baton passed from baby boomers and Generation Xers to younger generations: millennials (born 1981-1996) and Gen Zers (born 1997-2012). Their values, priorities, and ...
Dig deeper than the published reports about job growth before you decide to invest in a market. Of the many jobs that were lost during the pandemic, some quickly returned when lockdowns ended, some turned out to be gone for good, and some are still finding their way back. That ...
Real estate investors appear to be focused more on rental properties than on fix-and-flip opportunities according to the Spring 2023 Investor Sentiment Survey from RCN Capital, conducted by market intelligence firm CJ Patrick Company. More than half of the survey respondents (53%) indicated that they plan to hold investment properties ...
Where to Expect Increasing Foreclosure Volume for the Rest of 2023
Nearly nine in 10 (86%) mortgage servicing industry professionals surveyed at the Auction.com Disposition Summit in June said they expect their organization’s completed foreclosure auction volume to increase in 2023 compared to 2022. Most (62%) expect volumes to increase slightly while 24% expect volumes to increase substantially. Foreclosure Volume Drivers ...
Think Realty Magazine July/August 2023
+WHAT'S INSIDE Legislation | How Legislation Impacts the Real Estate Investment Industry Market and Trends | Where to Expect Increasing Foreclosure Volume for the Rest of 2023 • Deceiving Appearances Operations | Navigating New Norms • Creating Your Business Flywheel •Six Strategies for Leveraging Your Industry Influence • How Social Media Thought Leadership ...
Only 41% of Homes in England Meet Recommend Energy Rating
New 2023 research from Open Property Group found that just 41% of homes in England meet the recommended Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) rating of ‘C’ or above. This is only a 1% increase from the previous year. In 2022, only 40% of homes in England met the standard, despite the ...
Think Realty Podcast #275 – Market Update with Chris Ragland & Eddie Wilson
The market is up and down, banks are failing, and interest rates are rising… where do we go from here? Eddie sat down with Chris Ragland to discuss updates within the market, his take on the banking industry, and where the Fed is going and if there is a correlation ...
Why Investors are Cautiously Bullish to Begin 2023
After pulling back on investment property purchases in the second half of 2022, Paul Lizell has become “cautiously bullish” in early 2023. “We’ve really shifted, and right now we’re very, very bullish, but cautiously bullish, too, because I don’t know what events are going to come in that could throw ...
Since the peak of the housing boom back in June and July 2022, average home prices are down 5%. In the Mountain States and Pacific coast, they are down more than 7%. In Florida, on the other hand, they’ve dropped just 2%. The deflation of the home price boom will ...
Think Realty Podcast #274 – Live Your Someday Now
Our Resident Expert (and favorite travel guide), Greg Slaughter, has continually run into investment situations that most would run from, but has been successful and is now teaching others how to do the same while living their best life. Eddie sat down with Greg to chat about what mindset you ...
Think Realty Podcast #273 – Real Estate Investing is a Roller Coaster
Our Think Realty Titan of Build to Rent has had a crazy year to say the least, but is continuing to thrive in Cape Coral, Florida. Eddie sat down with Robert Knight, President/CEO of White Stone Developments LLC, to discuss how he has handled the roller coaster of going through ...
The rate of monthly rental price increases for both single family rental properties and multifamily rental units trailed the consumer price index (CPI) and wage growth in the first quarter of 2023, according to data compiled by Beekin and analyzed by CJ Patrick Company. While the CPI rose 5.8% from ...
Think Realty Podcast #271 – “Courage is Being Scared to Death, But Saddling up Anyway” – John Wayne.
The market is shaky, investors are a bit freaked out, and interest rates are rising… so what should you do? Eddie sat down with Jason Engelman, CEO, Founder & Managing Partner at Freaky Fast Investments, to discuss his feelings on the market, where Jason is finding opportunities, and what he ...
