Market & Trends
The world of real estate investing moves quickly. Catch the must-know news, market information, and trends for the industry here.
Back To: All Topics
Market & Trends
The world of real estate investing moves quickly. Catch the must-know news, market information, and trends for the industry here.
Back To: All Topics
I Have to Pay for That? Mandatory Residential Inspections
Different municipalities have different rules for code compliance. Some areas generally require inspections for properties occupied by tenants using rent-subsidy vouchers. Other areas generally require inspections if a code violation is reported or suspected. Other areas practice systematic inspections of all multiple-unit residential housing. These new municipality inspections can pose ...
Renters are Feeling Rich in This Market
Renters are feeling good about their finances, but they are not necessarily feeling like they would like to become homeowners. According to a new consumer study released this month by Freddie Mac, renters are increasingly likely to feel confident about their finances and their current living situation these days. In ...
Immigration: The Key to Housing Sustainability
According to the Urban Land Institute (ULI), the housing industry could suffer on a nationwide level if current rates of immigration into the United States are “not sustained.” ULI’s Terwilliger Center for Housing recently released a new report, “Home in America: Immigrants and Housing Demand,” addressing the topic. Stockton Williams, ...
Pam Goodwin, Joins Women to Watch Think Realty Dallas Expo 2017 Panel
Woman: Pam Goodwin Company: Goodwin Commercial Place in the Industry: Eleven years ago, Pam Goodwin made the leap out of “corporate America,” where she had been a very successful commercial interior designer and, subsequently, commercial developer for Brinker International. The group that owns, among other restaurant behemoths, Chili’s. She maintained ...
One-on-One with Pam Goodwin: A Think Realty “Woman to Watch in 2017” Owner of Goodwin Commercial
Pam Goodwin will serve as a panelist on Think Realty’s 2017 “Women to Watch in Real Estate” panel at the Think Realty Dallas Expo on April 29, 2017, in Dallas, Texas. Pam Goodwin is the founder and owner of Goodwin Commercial, a boutique commercial real estate and consulting firm specializing ...
Think Realty Partner, Sonia Booker, Celebrates National Women’s Month and a Feature in O, Magazine
Sonia Booker, an Atlanta, Georgia, real estate investor, held a “historic celebration” at the Sewell Appliance and Showroom in Sandy Springs, Georgia, on March 18, 2017, to celebrate national Women’s Month. Booker, who was recently featured in O, Magazine as one of the publication’s “Leading Women in Business,” honored a ...
You can learn more about Gaylene Lonergan and her law practice and reserve your spot at the “Dallas Market Insights” panel at the Think Realty Expo on April 29, 2017 by clicking here. No one has ever disputed that Texas is one of the most unique states in the Union, ...
Cathy Crowe Exposes Dallas’ Market “Heat” at Think Realty Dallas Expo
Cathy Crowe has spent nearly three decades in real estate, managing her own wholesales and rehabbing deals since 1990. All the while creating and selling mortgage notes, owning and managing rental properties, selling more than 100 multifamily properties and other packaged single-family deals. Crowe, who is a licensed Realtor, manages ...
You can learn more about Julie Ziglar Norman and reserve your spot at the “Women to Watch in Real Estate in 2017” panel at the Think Realty Expo on April 29, 2017 by clicking here. If real estate is all about relationships, then Think Realty’s “Women to Watch in Real ...
Announcing Our Emcee for Think Realty Conference & Expo – Dallas
Lyndzie Birch will be joining us in Dallas to connect with the best and brightest entrepreneurs in the industry! Birch, a Texas native, has quickly emerged as one of the most respected and trusted real estate agents in the metroplex thanks in part to her instinctive ability to make an ...
Single-Family Homes 2016 Levied Property Taxes hit $277 Billion
A report issued by ATTOM Data Solutions indicates how 2016 property taxes for 84 million U.S. single-family homes, totaled more than $277 billion. Averaging $3,296 per property taxed levied home with an effective tax rate of 1.15 percent. Top 10 Highest Property Tax Rate by State The top five highest ...
China Hits Milestone: 1,000+ LEED Certified Projects
China has achieved a major milestone in “green” building, surpassing 1,000 LEED certified building projects, according to the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). “The exponential growth of LEED in the global marketplace and in China drastically helps mitigate climate change and positively affects the health and well-being of millions of ...
Home Inventory Hits Record Low Since 2012
Trulia’s quarterly Inventory and Price Watch report—evaluating the supply of starter, trade-up and premium homes on the market nationally and in the 100 largest U.S. metros—found that markets with the biggest gains in home values since 2012 are facing the tight supply of for-sale homes. Buyers Face Tightest Inventory Levels ...
Best 2017 Single-Family Rental Markets for Investing
Solid returns on single-family rentals are expected to continue in many parts of the Southeast, Rust Belt and Midwest for investors purchasing in 2017, according to results of ATTOM Data Solutions’ Q1 2017 Single Family Rental Market report. The report, released March 23, 2017, analyzed single-family rental returns in 375 ...
Homeownership Hits 50-Year Record Low
Over the past 10 years, homeownership rates in the U.S. collapsed, wiping out more than three decades of progress toward the American Dream for millions of households. Overall, the national homeownership rate dropped from a peak of 69 percent in 2004 to an average of 63.4 percent in 2016. If ...
Home Price Insight Report for January 2017
CoreLogic’s Home Price Insight Report for January 2017 showed a 0.7 percent for the national single-family combined tier which included distressed sales over the prior month. The report recorded a year-over-year gain of 6.9 percent nationally for the single-family combined tier to include distressed sales. The U.S. has experienced 60 ...
Commercial Property Outlook for 2017
Online marketplaces like RealtyShares can allow investors to take advantage of investment opportunities across the spectrum of commercial property types. One of the primary market sectors is that of office buildings, which can range from large multi-tenant structures in city business districts to single-tenant buildings that might be built to ...
Home Flips Increase to 10-Year High
Flips of single-family homes and condos in 2016 were up 3.1 percent from 2015, to the highest level since 2006, according to ATTOM Data Solutions’ 2016 Year-End U.S. Home Flipping Report released March 9, 2017. The 193,009 single-family homes and condos flips in 2016 accounted for 5.7 percent of all ...
Snap IPO Millionaires to Snap Up Property in Silicon Beach
The little private app that erases your chats and snaps just became public. And for many newly made millionaires, it’s been a very friendly little ghost. Snapchat, the app that teenagers opted to use once they discovered that Mom and even Grandma could comment on their Facebook pages, has made ...
Your Next BIG Investment Could Actually Be Very Tiny
INVESTOR VOICES - Sponsored Content Unlike stocks and bonds, real estate has proven to generate stable (and in many cases, significant) returns, which makes it an attractive investment and lucrative asset. This article weighs the pros and cons of each type of investment. For account holders of self-directed IRAs, real ...
Invitation Homes IPO Good for Buy-and-Hold Investors
The nation’s largest landlord is now trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Invitation Homes made its stock market debut on Jan. 31, 2017, as the largest IPO this year and a positive sign for the single-family rental market. The company claims it has almost 50,000 single-family rentals in 13 ...
Residential Refinance Originations Increase Q4 of 2016
More than 1.7 million (1,748,177) loans were originated on U.S. residential property in the fourth quarter of 2016. This is down 15 percent from previous quarters but up 2 percent from a year ago, as reported by ATTOM Data Solutions, parent company of RealtyTrac, in its Q4 2016 U.S. Residential ...
Single-Family Rental Research Performance Summary Released February 2017
Single-borrower, single-family rental securitizations rated by Morningstar Credit Ratings, LLC are performing within expectations. The Single-Family Rental Research Performance Summary, released February 28, 2017, shows the average vacancy rate improved to 4.9 percent from 5.1 percent in December 2016. Delinquencies held steady at 0.9 percent. Morningstar expects the vacancy rate ...
Small Investors Can Now Provide Turnkey Properties Nationwide
Large real estate investment firms have been riding a large wave of opportunity and profit margins by providing turnkey rental investment properties to out-of-town investors. We recognized that small investors failed to pursue this opportunity because they didn’t have all of the necessary components. This inefficiency led us to create ...
The Landlording World Is Flat. Or Is it?
Stubborn misconceptions about landlords and property managers have led to some disastrous legislation. It’s time to make your voice heard. Despite Aristotle’s evidence (circa 330 B.C.) that the Earth is round, its shape nevertheless was hotly debated for centuries thereafter. Even today, “flat Earth societies” still exist, based on a belief ...
