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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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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 ...
Rising Tides: How Concerned Should Investors Be?
According to Climate Central, Florida has more than 3.5 million people at risk of coastal flooding due to rising sea levels. This number is expected to rise to 4.6 million by 2050. While South Florida is the poster child for coastal flooding due to global warming, it’s not the only ...
Chinese Investors Hit the Accelerator as Trump Presidency Progresses
When Donald Trump was elected 45th president of the United States, a number of real estate investors drew a huge sigh of trepidation along with the many other protestors of one of the country’s most divisive and controversial elections. While most U.S. real estate investors believed all personal preferences aside, ...
Think Realty Magazine March/April 2017
+ WHAT'S INSIDE The Big Picture | Rising Tides • Start With a Plan • Diversification Tips • Power of Social Media • Legislative Watch Cover Feature | Triumph Times Two Special Report| 10 Women to Watch The Big Picture| Should You Go Solo? Up Close & Personal| One on ...
Pending Home Sales Down in January ’17
Insufficient supply levels led to a lull in contract activity in the Midwest and West, which dragged down pending home sales in January 2017 to their lowest level in a year, according to the National Association of Realtors®. The Pending Home Sales Index,* a forward-looking indicator based on contract signings, ...
Cities with Most Underwater Mortgages Still Offer the Best Bargains
Another one million previously underwater homes are now above the water line. ATTOM Data Solutions released its 2016 Year End Home Equity and Underwater Report that shows just 5.4 million properties are still seriously underwater. Let’s take a look at what this all means for investors. While 5.4 million properties ...
Encouraging News for SFR Investors
Good news for investors of single-family rentals: Market stability appears to be gaining steam, as RentRange’s Q4 2016 data shows a lessening percentage change between quarters while rent rates continue to increase. “As we begin 2017, it continues to look bright for single-family rental investors,” said Wally Charnoff, chief executive ...
Policy Uncertainty Clouds Growth Expectations
Conservative growth expectations for 2017 persist as the markets continue to weigh the unfolding policies of the new administration, according to the Fannie Mae Economic & Strategic Research (ESR) Group's February 2017 Economic and Housing Outlook, released on Feb. 16, 2017. The full-year economic growth forecast remains unchanged from last ...
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 ...
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
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 ...
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
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
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
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 ...
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
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
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
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 ...
