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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Existing Home Sales Pick Up as Annual Value Growth Slows
While the annual pace of U.S. home value growth dipped in August, existing home sales experienced solid growth, according to data from the National Association of Realtors. Existing home sales in July increased 1.3 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.49 million in August — which is its ...
Think Realty Housing News Report October/November 2019
+ WHAT'S INSIDE Think Realty | News & Events • Making Your Tasks Easier • Rooted in Service •Focusing on Millennials for Real Estate Investors Investor Stories | Presidents' Circle Featuring Kevin Kim •Veterans Buy America Fundamentals | Evaluating the Numbers • Building Your Brand • Managing the Business Risks ...
Think Realty Housing News Report September 2019
+ WHAT'S INSIDE Housing News Report | The New Path Toward Tomorrow's Real Estate Profits •My Take: What is Property Data API? • Market Spotlight: The Southeast • Data in Action: The Home Affordability Struggle • Big Data Sandbox: The Home Affordability Maze: The Search to Buy a Home ...
Think Realty Magazine September/October 2019
+ WHAT'S INSIDE Think Realty | News & Events • Think Realty Benefits: Home Depot Pro Investor Stories | Passion for Green • Presidents' Circle Featuring Aaron Norris •Veterans Buy America Fundamentals | A Good Start • Portfolio Diversification • Women as Resources • A Legal View •Saving the Planet ...
ATTOM Report: Over 1.5 Million Vacant U.S. Homes
Attom Data Solutions recently released its Vacant Property and Zombie Foreclosure Report. The results showed there are 1,530,563 U.S. single-family homes and condos vacant in third quarter of 2019, which represents 1.6 percent of all homes. Attom Data collects and analyzes publicly recorded real estate information like foreclosure status, equity, and owner-occupancy status matched ...
ATTOM Data Solutions just released its Q1 2019 Home Flipping report and found that 7.2 percent of all home sales during the first quarter, reached a new high flipping rate, the highest since Q1 2010. The 7.2 percent flipping rate is up from 5.9 percent in the previous quarter and ...
Think Realty Housing News Report August/September 2019
+ WHAT'S INSIDE Think Realty | News & Events • Floor Trends: Vinyl Plank • How Fewer First-Time Home Buyers Threaten the Market Investor Stories | Presidents' Circle Featuring Marco Santarelli •Service Before Self Fundamentals | High-Quality Investing Methods • A Different Way to Diversify • A Legal View • ...
What will happen when the biggest retail disruptor enters real estate? According to CNBC, the largest residential real estate brokerage company in the nation, Realogy, is leveraging the influence of the largest online retailer in the world, Amazon. The two companies formed a partnership strategically designed to “boost sales for ...
According to Fannie Mae’s Economic & Strategic Research (ESR) Group, domestic growth is expected to be stronger in 2019 than previously predicted thanks to consumer spending, a strong labor market, and a recent rebound in equity valuation. This is helping to offset growing weakness in business investment and government expenditures ...
After falling off in late 2018, the U.S. home flipping rate rebounded to a nine-year high in the first quarter of 2019, according to a recent report from ATTOM Data Solutions. ATTOM’s Chief Product Officer Todd Teta concluded that the jump in home flipping was likely due to real estate ...
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 the housing sector begins with first-time buyers. Unfortunately, first-timers are a vanishing species ...
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 costs are national drivers. Local trends include the availability of housing stock and labor/construction costs. It is critical ...
iBuyers: Investor Friend or Foe?
What happens when Main Street real estate investors are pitted against Wall Street behemoths backed by billions? It’s easy to imagine gun-slinging cowboys at opposite ends of a ghost town waiting to draw. Whether a duel is destined remains to be seen, but it’s important to understand the landscape. What ...
As someone who successfully climbed the mountain to financial independence, I have witnessed “uncomfortable truths” that stop many people. Real estate investing can be a rewarding way out of the “rat race,” but we must recognize, discuss, and overcome these uncomfortable truths if we hope to help more investors achieve ...
Increased Foreclosures in the West?
According to a new client survey conducted by Auction.com, Western markets are most at risk for increased foreclosure inventory in the second half of 2019. Most respondents (80%) expect only slight changes in foreclosure and bank-owned (REO) inflow in the next six months. On July 9, 2019, Auction.com, the nation’s largest ...
When the foreclosure crisis hit the nation in 2007, the greatest impact was reported around the periphery of the nation — home prices plunged as jobs were lost and foreclosure levels went through the roof. And investors walked away. However, markets in the middle experienced much less volatility back then ...
Rental Owners Saved from Footing Tenants’ Utility Bills
On April 25, 2019, Governor Eric Holcomb signed HB 1347 into law, giving much-deserved relief to rental property owners in Indiana. Rep.Woody Burton (R-Whiteland) authored the bill and championed its cause, being a Realtor® and rental property owner himself. The bill received some push back during its committee meetings in ...
Think Realty Magazine July/August 2019
+ WHAT'S INSIDE Think Realty | News & Events • Think Realty Benefits: ApplyConnect • Top of Mind Investor Stories | Rebuilding Rural America •Fab and Fearless •Healthy Passive Income Fundamentals | Developing a Niche • Generational Tenants • 9 Steps to a Deed-in-Lieu-of Foreclosure• A Legal View •Doing Well ...
Think Realty Housing News Report July 2019
+ WHAT'S INSIDE Housing News Report | Will Opportunity Zones Boost America's Distressed Neighborhoods? •My Take: Designed for the Conveniences of Today: Even Real Estate Transactions Can Be Done From Home • Market Spotlight: Investors Still Finding Success in the Middle • Big Data Sandbox: Where are the ZIP's that ...
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 the poster children for the housing crisis that followed. During its darkest hour, the number of ...
State of Nation’s Housing Report Released
The State of the Nation’s Housing 2019 report, published by The Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University, was released June 25. The housing report asks what real estate investors — and anyone invested in U.S. housing — want to know: Can the market provide a broader and more ...
Top 10 Metros with the Lowest Property Tax Rate
In a recent analysis by ATTOM Data Solutions on 2018 property taxes, there were a total $304.6 billion property taxes levied on single-family homes in 2018. The report also showed that the average property tax amount on single-family homes in 2018 was $3,498 – an effective tax rate of 1.16 ...
Smart Technology in Apartments
Smart home technology, once reserved for single-family homes, has invaded the multifamily, co-living and apartment space. The trend in property technology isn’t moving out of the industry anytime soon. But while benefits like unlocking the door from your smartphone are attractive to tenants, smart technology may mean even more for ...
Continuing a Trend, Annual Foreclosures Rates Drop in Every State Except One
For 11 consecutive months, the annual rate of foreclosures has dropped, according to a recent report from ATTOM Data Solutions. In May 2019, the real estate analytics provider found that foreclosure filings were reported on a total of 56,152 U.S. properties, which is a 1 percent increase from April, but ...
When people think of vacation rentals, usually the serenity of the beach or mountains comes to mind, not the hustle and bustle of a city. There is a growing debate in the vacation rental/short-term rental industry if urban properties really are vacation rentals. Short term is considered anything less than ...
