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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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5G Technology Slated for Four Cities in 2018
Imagine using your phone to do just about anything with just about no delays ever. That dream could become a reality for certain cellular customers by the end of 2018. AT&T recently announced three cities would have access to its 5G service by the end of 2018 and promised that ...
Fed’s Asset Purchases During 2008 Questioned
Skeptical economists have authored and presented a paper criticizing the Federal Reserve’s asset purchases during the 2008 financial crisis. They argue that in the future, instead of making large scale asset purchases (LSAP), which were a key part of quantitative easing (QE) in the wake of the housing and financial ...
Telemarketing Scam Targeted Investors
The U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Illinois recently indicted two California residents on charges related to a national telemarketing scam targeting real estate investors. The charges included conspiracy to commit wire fraud and mail fraud, and result from the two individuals’ participation in a scheme that involved selling ...
Nashville Housing Market offers Room to Grow
Nashville, Tennessee, is, quite simply, sitting in the catbird seat when it comes to real estate. The “Music City,” so named in 1950 by radio broadcaster David Cobb thanks to its longstanding position as the home of country music, is hitting all the right notes these days. Positioned in the ...
Think Realty Magazine March 2018
+ WHAT'S INSIDE Think Realty | News & Events •Member Benefits Coaches Corner | Panel in Print • Letting Go Without Losing Control Design Point | Renovation Rock Star: Multifamily Edition • 3 Listing & Renovation Mistakes Costing You Money and Time on the Market Cover Feature | Building Big ...
Single-Family Rental Rates Up Year-Over-Year
According to the CoreLogic Single-Family Rent Index (SFRI), 2017’s rents were higher than those of 2016. This continues a seven-year trend of rising rents that started in 2010, although analysts noted that the price growth rate has decelerated gradually since it peaked at 4.3 percent in February 2016. The index ...
Foreclosure Rates Lower in Highest-Risk ZIP Codes
ATTOM Data Solutions, released its 2017 Environmental Hazards Housing Risk Index, which shows median home prices in U.S. ZIP codes in the highest 20 percent for environmental hazard risk appreciated at a faster pace than the overall U.S housing market over the past year, past five years and past 10 ...
7 Ways to Determine Your Property’s Value
Real estate values estimation has several uses ranging from sale listings of real estate and analysis of investments to property taxes and insurances. However, it’s particularly necessary when it comes to real estate sales and passive investing. After all, the property value is not just based on the initial payment made or ...
Hall of Fame Coach Mack Brown inspires at Think Realty Conference in Dallas
We had a blast at our Dallas Conference & Expo with former University of Texas head football coach and our event kickoff speaker, Mack Brown. Watch along as Brown offers insights into how to be successful in life and in business—starting with practical tips you can implement today. Thank you, ...
Green Pig Marketing Stunt Backfires on Brokerage
A real estate brokerage expanding into the Seattle, Washington, market got a lot of attention recently with a marketing campaign that may have misfired. The company installed about 1,500 small, green pig cutouts around the city to announce its new presence. The idea was to demonstrate how the company would ...
Dallas Area Investors Reveal Market Insights
Dallas, Texas – Seven local investors spent an hour digging into the local Dallas-Fort Worth real estate market this past Saturday, February 24, 2018, at the Think Realty National Conference & Expo. The Local Market Panel, hosted by Cathy Crowe of All Star Home Group, consisted of local experts from ...
5 Economic Indicators Every Real Estate Investor Must Know
Dallas, Texas – When Carrie Cook, president of Ignite Funding, thinks about the roughly $460 million her real estate investment company is managing right before she goes to sleep at night, she sleeps just fine. While some investors might find numbers like that to be a bit intimidating even when ...
Why a Studio Apartment Could be Better than a McMansion for Your Real Estate Business
Dallas, Texas – “If you have a big, beautiful ‘McMansion’ that you’re trying to rent out right now, I’m betting you’re finding that market isn’t too hot. In fact, I’m betting a one-bedroom apartment or a studio might be much hotter, and I’ll tell you why.” That’s how Gene Guarino, ...
Real Estate Cryptocurrency to Launch Soon
A real estate firm in Los Angeles, California, has come up with a new way to fund real estate investments that literally cashes in on the investment trends associated with cryptocurrency. The company, Aperture Real Estate Ventures, will launch a real estate-backed cryptocurrency at the end of February. The currency ...
Top 5 Cities for First-Time Home Buyers
Certain things make a real estate market relatively more attractive to first-time homebuyers than another. For example, first-time buyers benefit from low down payments, which tend to be found in areas with affordable median home prices, multiple financing options, and good employment opportunities upon which to base their new household ...
Mortgage Rates Hit Four-Year High
According to Freddie Mac, national average mortgage rates rose to 4.38 percent last week on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage. That rate, while still historically low, is the highest posted since April 2014. 15-year fixed-rate mortgage interest rates averaged 3.84 percent (up slightly from the previous week), and five-year hybrid adjustable-rate ...
“Buying Time” in Creative Ways
Ask a real estate investor why they left their “9-to-5,” and they’ll usually say something about having more time. Investors are, in many cases, parents and grandparents seeking more time with family. Just as often, they are passionate entrepreneurs and community servants seeking more time in which to enact their ...
Deal Funding with Credit Card Stacking
If you are a real estate investor and have been looking for capital to fund your real estate deals, there is a good chance you have heard of credit card stacking. Credit card stacking is the practice that credit brokers use to help individuals acquire credit by applying for multiple ...
What is Time to a Real Estate Investor?
Time itself is an investment. Often, you put in time for a very specific purpose or to achieve a certain goal. That goal could be to obtain more time. For real estate investors, the initial investment of your time may mean you later have additional days to spend with family ...
Take Heed, Housing Affordability Issue to Worsen
You might expect the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) to be happy to hear about inventory shortages since that means there is a need for more new construction. But the NAHB’s chief economist has a warning to accompany the association’s latest report on home prices, mortgage interest rates, and ...
Real Estate Agent Jailed Over Profitable Short Sale
When an Arizona real estate agent helped his parents purchase a distressed property from a motivated seller in 2012, he probably wasn’t thinking about bank fraud. In all likelihood, his main focus was on getting his parents a good deal on the property, which they bought for $580,000 in a ...
Markets that Will “Double Up” in 2018
Although home prices have been rising briskly in many markets across the country, the prospects for investors in these markets can be quite different from market to market. This is especially true for investors in rental properties who need a longer-term perspective than those rehabbing and reselling. Jobs are the ...
Predictive Analyst Names Two Picks for HQ2
Last year, New York University (NYU) marketing professor Scott Galloway predicted that Amazon would purchase Whole Foods. In June 2017, the internet behemoth did so. Now, Galloway has another big, Amazon-related prediction: “It all comes down to two locations [for HQ2]: It’s either going to be the metro area of ...
The Stock Market: What You Need to Know
Last week, Wall Street went a little crazy. After more than a year of steady growth, the time was certainly ripe for a correction in the market, and that is what the market gave investors last week. February started off with some turbulence, with the Dow closing on February 2, ...
Mack Brown To Kick Off Think Realty Conference In Dallas
Mack Brown, former head coach of the Texas Longhorns, will kick off the Think Realty Conference & Expo in Dallas happening February 24th and 25th, at the Westin Galleria Dallas Hotel! Attendees will learn time-saving tips, how to get their real estate businesses started, solidifying and scaling strategy and how ...
