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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2017 Market Predictions

Kathy Fettke Stresses Investors’ Need to Understand Market Cycles “I’m going to depress all of you, and offend about half of you,” Kathy Fettke, co-founder of California’s Real Wealth Network (RWN), said as she kicked off her 2017 Market Predictions session at the Think Realty San Diego Group Event Feb ...
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Five Steps to Flipping Properties for $100,000 a Year

REVTRAC’s Ryan McFarland Explains the Science of Successful Investing When it comes to flipping properties, Ryan McFarland of the Real Estate Veterans Training Academy (REVTRAC), has the process down to a science. REVTRAC was founded by Chris Bedgood, star of A&E’s “Flipping San Diego” and provides training to real estate ...
Using Knowledge to Overcome Fear

Using Knowledge to Overcome Fear

SDIC Co-Founder Imran Clark Says Education is Key What drives people to real estate from every walk of life? Imran Clark, co-founder of the San Diego Investment Club (SDIC) has a very simple answer: “At the end of the day, most of us really like hanging out with our families ...
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The Truth About Diversifying Your Investment Portfolio

Ignite’s Bill Bray Makes the Case for Variation Sometimes, words that get thrown around in investing don’t mean what you think they mean, and a great example of this is the word “diversifying.” Bill Bray, an investment agent at Ignite Funding, delved into this particular misconception in detail at the ...
When Buying Ugly Yields Pretty Results

When Buying Ugly Yields Pretty Results

Equistream’s Kent Davis Shares His Expertise at Think Realty San Diego Event Kent Davis, co-founder of Equistream and longtime pastor and missionary, starts everything out with a bang, including his general session at the Feb. 18, 2017, Think Realty San Diego Group Event. Within five minutes of his introduction, Davis covered ...
Budget-Busting Property Insurance Myths

Budget-Busting Property Insurance Myths

Don’t Let These Property Insurance Myths Kill Your Real Estate Investments, Advises Shawn Woedl What you don’t know can hurt you, especially if what you don’t know has to do with your passive real estate investment. Shawn Woedl, senior vice president of REIGuard, a provider of property insurance specifically for ...
The 10 Most Important Days in Your Real Estate Career

The 10 Most Important Days in Your Real Estate Career

Insights from Bruce Norris Kick Off Think Realty’s San Diego Group Event Of all the important days in your buying career, there are 10 that stand out in particular. If you’re Bruce Norris of The Norris group, a California-based private lender heavily focused on real estate investment strategies, then you ...
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Red Flag Warning for Commercial Property Owners

This may be the year that billions of dollars in commercial mortgages go belly-up. These loans were financed in 2007 and are maturing this year. That means some commercial property owners will be faced with huge balloon payments and for some, a major headache to pay them off. The Federal ...
Down Payment Myths Scare Younger Buyers

Down Payment Myths Scare Younger Buyers

According to the National Association of Realtors (NAR), more than one-in-five potential home buyer is opting out of exploring the option of buying a home. At least not without doing the proper research. Simply because they believe the down payment will be prohibitively expensive. The NAR’s 2017 Aspiring Home Buyers ...
Luxury-Home Owners, Redesigning Traditional Living-Space

Luxury-Home Owners, Redesigning Traditional Living-Space

If you work in the luxury-home sales business, you may want to start being just a little bit more flexible. Don’t worry, the issue is not that you need to start doing more yoga. Actually, it’s more of a matter of living-space preferences. According to a recent report from the ...
Millennials Prefer Staying Put

Millennials Prefer Staying Put

The Millennials are at it again. They are “bucking tradition” with their living options and, once again, shaking up housing predictions. In many ways, this generation is far less predictable than the ones prior. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the latest Millennial preference to interfere with the housing market ...
Denver Neighborhood Serves as “Future City”

Denver Neighborhood Serves as “Future City”

A high-tech neighborhood in Denver, Colorado, will serve as a test site for various technologies to show “what the future could hold,” according to the city’s “Smart City Project,” an endeavor partnered with Panasonic. The neighborhood, known as Peña Station Next (PSN), will have everything from smart LED street lights ...
Detroit Lights Up, Sparking Investor Attention

Detroit Lights Up, Sparking Investor Attention

Detroit has flipped the switch on a plan to light up the streets at night and is now attracting the attention of investors who see bargain basement prices and a whole lot of potential. The once-bankrupt city just completed a four-year project to replace "all" the city's streetlights. 88,000 mostly ...
Foreclosures Down from December 2015

Foreclosures Down from December 2015

CoreLogic’s National Foreclosure Report for December 2016, released on Feb. 14, 2017, shows there were 21,000 completed foreclosures nationally which is down from 36,000 in December 2015. Seriously delinquent rate is at 2.6 percent which is the lowest level since June 2007. Approximately 335,000 homes in the U.S. were in ...
Quarter of Homes Surveyed Found to be at High Environmental Risk

Quarter of Homes Surveyed Found at High Environmental Risk

Almost a quarter of nearly 70 million single-family homes or condos in a recent ATTOM Data Solutions survey were found to have high environmental hazard risk. ATTOM's "Environmental Hazards Housing Risk Index," released Feb. 16, 2017, showed 17.3 million residences are in ZIP codes with high or very high risk ...
ATTOM Data Solutions U.S. Underwater Property Report

UNDERWATER U.S. PROPERTIES DOWN FROM YEAR AGO

ATTOM Data Solutions’ Year-End 2016 U.S. Home Equity & Underwater Report, shows that as of the end of 2016 there were 5.4 million (5,408,323) U.S. properties seriously underwater — where the combined loan amount secured by the property was at least 25 percent higher than the property’s estimated market value ...
Office Sector Growth Stalls

Office Sector Growth Stalls

The long-term forecast from Ten-X’s U.S. Office Market Outlook, released on February 8, 2017,    reveals the sector's fundamentals appear to be stalling after years of slow recovery, as vacancy rates have plateaued despite a healthy labor market and growing national economy. The Top Five Buy Markets forecast indicates Portland, Oregon; ...
Morningstar Rental Summary

Single-Family Home Vacancy Rates Down

Strong retention rates and fewer lease expirations helped lower the vacancy rates among single-borrower, single-family rental transactions in December 2016, and Morningstar Credit Ratings, LLC expects the vacancy rate to improve further in the coming months. The average vacancy rate among single-borrower, single-family rental transactions declined to 5.1 percent in ...
Sellers Boasting Biggest Profits Since 2007

Sellers Boasting Biggest Profits Since 2007

If you sold your home in 2016, then the odds are you saw a pretty hefty profit when you checked out that cashier’s check at the closing table. According to ATTOM Data Solutions, homeowners who sold their homes last year saw an average home price gain since purchase of $38,206 ...
New York City's Housing Trend, Frankenmansions

New York City’s Housing Trend, Frankenmansions 

New York City’s richest homeowners just can’t get enough square footage but they’re willing to go to some pretty great lengths in order to try. The result of the city’s wealthiest real estate buyers’ hard work and extensive renovations conducted with an eye toward wider, more open spaces in their ...
U.S. Cities Dominate Most-Affordable Global List

U.S. Cities Dominate Most-Affordable Global List

A recent report from the Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey (DIHA) shows once again that everything is relative and that real estate is first and foremost, always a local issue. The DIHA 2017 measured affordability in 406 metro markets in nine countries around the world and despite nationwide concerns about ...
2016 Distressed Sale Share Drops to Nine-Year Low

2016 Distressed Sale Share Drops to Nine-Year Low

ATTOM Data Solutions’ Year-End 2016 Home Sales report shows 16.2 percent of single-family home and condo sales in 2016 were distressed sales — bank-owned sales, short sales or foreclosure auctions sold to third-party buyers — down from 18.8 percent of all sales in 2015 to the lowest level since 2007, ...
Home Sales off to Slow Start in 2017

Home Sales off to Slow Start in 2017

Ten-X Residential Real Estate Nowcast indicates a slight year-over-year increase in January existing home sales. According to the Nowcast, January sales will fall between seasonally adjusted annual rates of 5.32 and 5.67 million, with a targeted number of 5.49 million – the same number of homes sold in December of ...
Shanghai

One-to-One: Eddie Wilson Discusses China, Investing Outlook

Recently, Eddie Wilson, president of Affinity Enterprise Group (AEG), returned from a trip to China to visit AEG’s Chinese division, Affinity Investments Asia (AIA). AIA has a physical office in Shanghai with the sole designated purpose of helping Chinese investors find credible investment opportunities in the United States. The office ...
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Changing Dynamics for Retail Centers

Retail properties are recently experiencing a few different trends – some, seemingly contradictory. The sector is doing well, but there are changing dynamics with retail centers that should be examined as part of any investment decision. Department Stores Have Lost Importance Big American department stores like Macy’s are being outmaneuvered ...