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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Realty Matters: Influencers in Real Estate
Trends are not easy to predict in any industry. To understand industry trends, you must first understand who influences trends and why trends change. Is it simply fashionable? Has a new technology usurped an existing popular system? Maybe a rising ethos toppled an old stereotype? Looking at existing trends to ...
Midwest Market Garners Global Attention
Part of my job as the CEO of an established turnkey company in Kansas City is setting the vision for our business. To do this well, I have to be looking at the big picture, the overarching trends, the high-level view. I take this seriously. I want to earn my ...
Prior to the COVID-19 crisis, household incomes were showing steady growth. From 2016 to 2018, for example, household incomes rose 2.2 percent, from $61,779 to $63,179. It was a positive sign that the economy was making good progress. Consumers still faced a challenge finding affordable housing, however. From June 2016 ...
RentRange®, an industry leader in market data and analytics for the single-family rental (SFR) housing industry, found in its recent data report that the Kansas City, KS-MO Metropolitan Statistical Area (Kansas City MSA) is a mid-to-large sized market which has been steadily growing within its means. The market is one ...
How COVID Has Affected Office Space
In March, when our world changed in a way unlike anyone living as experienced before, The Great Adaptation began. And as Think Realty published months ago, uncertainty creates a need to be fulfilled. You, as real estate investors, entrepreneurs, and business owners can fill that need, and can capitalize from ...
Technology Revolutionizing Real Estate Document Processing
Technology is a key lever, and its penetration in operations can prove to be a decisive factor for an organization’s strategic success. Accurately capturing data, inputting it to appropriate tables, keeping the data integrated in a database, and employing robust security measures; all these aspects can be handled efficiently by ...
Rural and Suburban Property Values Rise
If you are looking for a new place to live these days, the odds are good you have at least considered taking the “country mouse” route and buying a home in a rural area. The odds are also pretty good that a year ago, you would never have spared the ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a massive impact on the U.S. economy, from healthcare costs to the job market. After the initial lockdowns in March, even the housing market, which had been on a pronounced upswing for several years, looked to be trending downward. After a brief plunge, the housing ...
Think Realty Podcast #149 – Hurry Up and Wait
If you could see it, everyone would be doing it. When it comes to REI, anticipation is key. But how do you know when the fallout will come? It’s all about understanding markets. Learn how to dive into real estate market research, how to time the market, and what information ...
The Tampa Bay Property Market in 2020
Most real estate investors are on a weekly lookout to assess the property situation due to COVID-19. Many pay especially close attention to what's happening in red-hot markets. One such example is the Tampa Bay Area located on the west coast of Florida. Tampa and the surrounding region has topped investment ...
Modular Housing and Mainstream Real Estate
Modular homes aren’t new, but the concept is becoming more popular as affordable housing continues to be a substantial issue for North Americans. With supply shortages across the country, the most obvious solution would be to build more homes. However, a hefty combination of economic trends, policy decisions, and demographic ...
The Hottest Real Estate Markets in Southern California
Real estate markets vary greatly depending on the location. In southern California, real estate has skyrocketed in recent years and has shown no sign of slowing down. Let's take a close look at the hottest real estate markets throughout Southern California. Long Beach Long Beach has always been a popular ...
Think Realty Magazine July 2020
+ WHAT'S INSIDE Think Realty | News & Events Investor Stories | Presidents' Circle Featuring Andre Johnson • Redesigned Renovation • Investor Voices Engagement | Realty Matters: Designing Your Business • Easy Answers Fundamentals | 3 Ways to Stay Profitable and Pandemic-Resistant • Designing Your Real Estate Investment Portfolio • ...
Market Spotlight: Cape Coral and Fort Myers, FL
RentRange, an industry leader in market data and analytics for the single-family rental (SFR) housing industry, found in its recent data report that the Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL Metropolitan Statistical Area (Cape Coral-Ft. Myers MSA) is a mid-sized market that has been growing steadily. The market offers more stability versus ...
Our regular ways of comparing real estate markets are pretty much out the window because EVERY market is now beset with heavy job losses, and jobs drive demand for real estate. Instead of jobs as they are now, let's think about jobs a couple of years down the road. Which ...
How a Great Kitchen Makes a Happy Home
With the plethora of recipes available online, many people want to engage in at-home cooking activities. In order to do so, they need to invest in proper kitchen instruments ingredients, and interior design. Even though high-quality kitchen essentials cost more than inferior alternatives, they are ultimately worth the price. While ...
Most Single-Family Renters Current with Payments
Single-family renters continue to be current with their June rent payments, according to a nationwide survey released today by the National Association of Residential Property Managers (NARPM®). The survey was conducted among NARPM’s 6,000 members with 462 responses. Nearly 70 percent of property managers who responded reported that 91 to ...
Rediscovering Buildings: Honeywell and SAP Announce Cloud Partnership
On June 11, SAP hosted a press roundtable to focus on a connected building solution from SAP and Honeywell that enables real estate owners of corporate and commercial buildings to get a 360-degree view of their real estate holdings, including financial and occupant insights. The webinar, moderated by Patrick Moorhead, ...
6 Hot Real Estate Markets in the U.S.
The real estate market in the United States has continued to do well ever since the Great Recession, which saw a significant amount of foreclosures and declines in property values all over the country. Ever since the 2008 lows, markets have continued to rebound and property owners have seen prices ...
Outside the Box: Marketing Different Properties
Real estate professionals in 2020 may benefit from rethinking their listing marketing strategies. Here’s the traditional flow: The agent signs a listing and enters it into the Multiple Listing Service (MLS). On the appropriate date, she saves the listing as active. The agent then initiates--sometimes this is handled by an ...
Given the current status with Covid-19 and Maryland restrictions on how many people are allowed at gatherings, we have made the decision to again postpone the Baltimore conference until October 24-25, 2020. We originally thought that by pushing into July we could avoid having to reschedule again, but unfortunately that ...
How to Keep Calm and Pivot Your Fix and Flip During COVID-19
What a difference a few short months can make. Back in February of this year, mortgage applications reached an 11-year high and it’s safe to say that no one in real estate, or any industry for that matter, foresaw what was about to happen. By April, sales of existing homes ...
How to Virtually Showcase Your Rental Property
Now more than ever, renters are making leasing decisions virtually. According to research conducted in a partnership between Apartments.com and Kingsley Associates, virtual tour mentions in email leads increased over 140% from March to April 2020, making it that much more important that your property is equipped to handle such ...
Outdoor Living: Summer’s Big Value-Add in Real Estate
As summer begins and most states initiate some form of economic reopening, there are many signals indicating that outdoor living is going to be the “big boost” for real estate this summer. With slow spring sales pushing many buyers’ home-seeking activities into the summer months, this probably would have happened ...
Economic Zombies and the COVID-19 Crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken its toll. The deadly infection has spared no nation. Millions have contracted the disease and hundreds of thousands have died. However, in the United States a broad-based reopening of our economy is underway. States feared that remaining shutdown would rock the economy to its very ...
