Market & Trends
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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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Think Realty Resident Expert: Sonia Booker, The Wealth Builder
Think Realty is highlighting our dynamic lineup of Think Realty Resident Experts: real estate pros who’ve experienced the ups and downs of the REI industry. Whether you're buying your first property or expanding your established portfolio, you can rely on our Think Realty Resident Experts to give you the insight ...
Think Realty Honors 2017 Finalists
The finalists being announced are peer nominated investors who excel within their real estate industry niche. The winners will be recognized at the Think Realty National Conference and Expo - Atlanta. This year's Think Realty Honors finalist list is comprised of real estate professionals in ten categories: Master Investor of ...
Think Realty Co-hosts Global Real Estate Summit in Shanghai
An elite team of Think Realty investors, experts, and executives will travel to China next week for the Global Destination Investment Summit, an event co-hosted by Think Realty. Shanghai is home to one of Affinity Worldwide’s (Think Realty’s parent company) international offices. That office houses Affinity Investments, an investment firm ...
Hurricanes: How to Weather the Storm
As the victims of Hurricane Harvey pick up the pieces, we at Think Realty hope you, our readers, your family, friends and pets are safe. As evident by several impactful hurricanes over the past two decades, TR wants to share some tips and advice from our sister company Affinity Loss ...
Commercial Power Broker Joins Resident Expert Team
Title and Affiliations: Founder of Goodwin Commercial, member of the International Council of Shopping Centers, member of the North Texas Commercial Association of Realtors and Real Estate Professionals, Founder of “Deals in Heels,” approved Texas Real Estate Commission instructor, Think Realty 2017 “Woman to Watch in Real Estate,” and Real ...
Renovation Rock Stars: Kitchen Edition
Ever watched one of those “reality” real estate shows and thought to yourself, “I could do so much better, for so much less! And why are they hanging that hideous wallpaper in a rental property anyway?” If so, you’re not alone. In fact, at every Think Realty event, we meet ...
Market Update: Atlanta, Georgia
Last October, Think Realty Magazine featured Atlanta, Georgia, in a market analysis. At that time, we observed that the southern city represented an opportunity not just to traditional real estate investors interested in building real estate portfolios but also to private lenders. Individuals and companies facilitating short-term, hard-money loans were ...
Commercial Investors vs. Zombie Malls
In the mid-1990s, malls were being constructed at a rate of 140 new shopping centers per year. In 2001, however, disturbing trends began to emerge. A PricewaterhouseCoopers study found that underperforming and vacant malls were becoming increasingly common. In 2007, for the first time in 50 years, there was not ...
Regional Spotlight on Memphis, Tennessee
Two years ago, Memphis, Tennessee, was one of the hottest real estate investing markets in the country. Media outlets like CNN Money gleefully described the “hordes of real estate investors…snapping up foreclosures and other cheap housing, rehabbing the homes, and renting them out for handsome profits.” Then, in a way ...
Trendspotting vs. Falling for the Hype
As a contractor who works exclusively with real estate investors, I often hear some “dangerous language” from my clients. I’m not talking about obscenities! I’m talking about investors who are so eager to spot the “next big thing” that they convince themselves that certain areas are about to take off ...
Where We’re Thinking in 2017: TREIA Conference & Expo Powered by Think Realty
TREIA Conference & Expo, Powered by Think Realty | Raleigh, NC | August 27-28 Investors throughout North Carolina’s Triangle Region Join Forces this August The Triangle Real Estate Investors Association (TREIA) is hosting an exciting two-day event powered by Think Realty for new and experienced investors. “We’ve brought together some ...
Profitable Investing with Foreclosure Receivership Properties
Real estate investors are always looking for good deals, but one word often makes them turn and run from a great price on a property. That word is “receivership.” Receivers are court-appointed individuals (officers of the court) who have a fiduciary responsibility not only to the original owners of the ...
The Attractions of Commercial Real Estate
Direct participation in commercial real estate (CRE), private investments via pass-through vehicles, as opposed to publicly-traded REITs, has long been a key asset class for most larger portfolios. Online marketplaces such as RealtyShares have now made CRE available to accredited investors generally. These investments provide meaningful diversification to any portfolio. ...
3 Lease & Regulation Tips to Discuss with Your Legal Team
Often times new real estate investors purchase buy and hold properties without truly understanding the importance of having a good lease and regulation handbook. While attending many networking meetings I hear people say they downloaded a lease they found online or at a local big box store. Most of these ...
Pre-Mover Index Names Top Market for Likely Relocation
ATTOM Data Solutions, Pre-Mover Housing Index, released on August 24, 2017 for Q2 2017 shows the markets with the highest pre-mover indices. Predicting strong sales activity in the following cities for third quarter: Colorado Springs, Colorado; Chicago, Illinois; Washington, D.C.; Reno, Nevada; and Lexington, Kentucky. Using data collected from purchase ...
Commercial Real Estate Investing FAQs
What is Commercial Real Estate? The term “commercial real estate” sounds like one big category, but commercial real estate is actually a way to describe several different types of property that are used solely for business purposes. One easy way to determine if you are dealing with commercial real estate ...
Avoiding Buyer’s Remorse in Real Estate
Buyer’s remorse is something we want to avoid, especially when it comes to real estate because it comes at a high price. We consider, evaluate, and scrutinize all the options to make a decision, but quite often, homebuyers wish they had done things differently. Trulia just came out with a ...
3 Reasons to Fix and Flip Outside Your Local Market
There is such a boom of television broadcasts and investment managers pitching about all the great profits we can make doing fix and flips these days. Nearly all of what you see and hear is about doing it “in your hometown.” While flipping in your hometown sounds wonderful and, furthermore, ...
Amount of Equity Rich Properties Increase Q2 2017
ATTOM Data Solutions released its Q2 2017 U.S. Home Equity & Underwater Report on August 17, 2017 showing that at the end of the second quarter of 2017 there were more than 14 million (14,038,372) U.S. properties that were equity rich; where combined loan amounts secured by the property was ...
2 Crucial Mistakes Investors Make When They Scale Up
Almost every full-time investor remembers the moment that they realized that real estate investing was actually going to change their lives. Sure, you hear other people talk about it. You see other people succeeding and living beyond their wildest dreams, but the moment that crystalizes the potential in real estate ...
3 Ways to Start Investing Immediately
We’ve all heard the old adage, “You have to spend money to make money.” Nowhere is that less true than in real estate. While you do have to spend something to get started in real estate investing, it does not necessarily have to be tons and tons of cash. Nowhere ...
How to Choose the Best Market for Your Real Estate Investment
Successful real estate investing relies on several factors, but as the old adage goes, “location, location, location” is top of the list. But “location” is a broad term, and evaluating the right place to invest your dollars in real estate means identifying the right market in both the macro and micro senses ...
Why Chinese Investors Pulled Global Property Investments
When the Chinese government made a list of “negative” foreign investments that were attracting Chinese investment capital in 2016, the global real estate investing community held its breath. Would Chinese investors accelerate their buying in order to move their funds out of the country, or accede to their government’s wishes ...
Top Cities for Chinese Investment Capital in 2017
Chinese real estate investors have been the top foreign buyers of U.S. residential real estate for the past three years, and although the Chinese government is tightening its hold on its citizens’ investment capital the U.S. housing market is set to attract those investors’ capital for another year at least ...
3 Keys to Understanding the Chinese Real Estate Investment Discussion
Attend any real estate investing group these days and you will hear at least one attendee holding forth about the joys of working with international investors flush with capital and eager to pay retail or higher in the U.S. market. All thanks to the country’s strong respect for private property ...
