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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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Top 10 Trends in a Banner Year for Real Estate Investors
2016 is proving to be another banner year for real estate investors, with a continued short supply of homes to live in and even shorter supply of the most highly sought after single-family rentals, investors indeed have continued to find advantages to investing in real estate. Real estate is, of ...
Realty Trac 2015 Year-End Foreclosure Report
Data provider RealtyTrac’s Year-End 2015 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report shows foreclosure filings—default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions—were reported on 1,083,572 of the nation’s properties in 2015, down 3 percent from 2014 and down 62 percent from the peak of 2,871,891 properties with foreclosure filings in 2010. The nearly 1.1 ...
Our outlook for 2016 varies dramatically by market and price point in Southern California. At a high level, there are three major markets on the upswing, one is holding its own, and two are showing signs of slowing. Markets on the Upswing: Stronger Momentum San Diego Major indicators are trending ...
Repair and remodeling spending grew five percent-plus last year, just as we predicted. On Jan. 4, the Census Bureau announced a significant revision to its residential improvement spending estimates due to a calculation error. Based on our knowledge of the market, we are not surprised by the direction of the ...
Potential of a San Diego Housing Market Bubble in 2016
San Diego is receiving a great deal of scrutiny these days from experts and economists doing their best to identify the tipping point of a housing bubble as far in advance as possible. The result, unfortunately for investors, is a stew of conflicting opinions that could actually expedite a bust ...
Senior Housing as an Emerging Asset
The senior population in the United States is skyrocketing. By 2030, one in five Americans will be age 65 or older, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, up from one in seven today. As the general population ages, housing needs will also shift. People in their 60s, 70s and beyond ...
All-Cash Buyers Nationwide See Discounted Price Per Square Foot in Q1 2016, RealtyTrac Report Shows
RealtyTrac’s Q1 2016 U.S. Cash & Institutional Investor Housing Market Report shows that all-cash buyers of single-family homes and condos nationwide paid 23 percent less per square foot than all homebuyers, but that cash buyers in 9 percent of local housing markets paid a premium price per square foot. ...
Blanket Bans on Renting to Criminals May Violate Fair Housing Act
Landlords beware: there’s a new housing sheriff in town and he wants you to rent your property to tenants who are murderers, rapists, thieves — and other criminals. “The fact that you were arrested shouldn’t keep you from getting a job, and it shouldn’t keep you from renting a home,” ...
Fannie Mae Reports Conventional Single-Family Serious Delinquency Rate Down in March
Fannie Mae's has released its March 2016 Monthly Summary, containing information about the mortgage provider’s monthly and year-to-date activities for its gross mortgage portfolio, mortgage-backed securities and other guarantees, interest rate risk measures, serious delinquency rates and loan modifications. Among the reports highlights: The Conventional Single-Family Serious Delinquency Rate decreased ...
Think Realty Magazine May/June 2016
+WHAT'S INSIDE The Big Picture | The Most Important Lesson • Comings & Goings • The Beauty of Buy & Hold • Finding the Bull's-Eye • More Foreigners Investing in U.S. Cover Feature | Expanding Network Up Close & Personal | Crowdfunding Crusader • The Weekend Investor • Best of Two Worlds • ...
U.S. Home Sellers’ Price Gains in March 2016 Highest Since December 2007
RealtyTrac’s March and Q1 2016 U.S. Home Sales report shows that U.S. home sellers in March on average sold for $30,500 more than their purchase price, a 17 percent average gain in price — the highest average price gain for home sellers in any month since December 2007 at the ...
Chicago: Lessons from the most beat-up housing market in the country
For years, our thesis has been that the national downturn and recovery (in blue below) will play out similarly to the mid-1980s downturn in Houston (in orange below) and the early-1990s downturn in Southern California (in green below) because both the job losses and bank/savings and loan destructions were similar ...
Sellers realize average price gain of 17 percent from home purchase price, highest in 8 years
A new report shows that homeowners who sold during the third quarter of 2015 realized an average price gain of $40,658 (17 percent) from the purchase price of their property, the highest average price gain for home sellers since the third quarter of 2007, according to RealtyTrac. The report also ...
Report: Loan Limits Stifling New Home Sales in California and Arizona
By Adam Artunian John Burns Real Estate Consulting A new report from John Burns Real Estate Consulting says the pool of qualified new home buyers appears to be running thin in California and there are problems also in Arizona. The cause is loan limits by government sponsored enterprises as those ...
MSAs in South Region Rank at Top of RentRange List of Markets with Largest SFR Rent Increases from Q4 2014 to Q4 2015 Markets in the South region in Florida, Louisiana, Arkansas and Tennessee account for eight of the top 10 places on RentRange’s list of the 25 MSAs with ...
Landlords Report a Surge in Number of Older Renters Seeking Walkable Areas. We Think There May Be a Trend Afoot. Will Baby Boomer homeownership fall? We believe it will. Earlier this year, seven of us from John Burns Real Estate Consulting attended the National Multifamily Housing Conference, one of the ...
Home Flipping Up in 2015 After Four-Year Slide, RealtyTrac Year-End Report Shows RealtyTrac’s Year-End and Q4 2015 U.S. Home Flipping Report shows that 179,778 U.S. single-family homes and condos were flipped in 2015. That accounts for 5.5 percent of all single-family home and condo sales during the year. The 5.5 ...
Networking for Real Estate Investing Success
The scenario: You're seriously considering investing in real estate this year. You have the money, perhaps in a 401(k) or IRA, or you will after selling an existing property. You’ve done your research and have even attended a few seminars put on by real estate legends. You’ve learned the best ...
Balancing Act: Crowdfunding Garners Enthusiasm But Requires Thoughtfulness
More than three years after the passage of the JOBS Act, the SEC implemented its much-anticipated final rules legalizing Title III crowdfunding. So, what do the rules mean, and how will they apply to real estate investing in the future? The crowdfunding rules aim to allow business entities to raise ...
2016 State of the Oklahoma City Housing Market
The 2016 Oklahoma City housing market has continued with relatively steady growth and may actually represent an opportunity for a careful, savvy real estate investor willing to do his or her research and only buy when the time and the property are right. The Oil Factor and Economic Insulation First, any ...
Student Housing Boom: Increasing Higher-Ed Enrollment Points to Opportunity in Rentals
Student enrollment in U.S. universities and colleges has been on an upward trend for the past decade, and it is expected to continue throughout 2016 and beyond. As President Obama noted in his State of the Union address in January, “By 2020, America will once again have the highest proportion ...
International investors swooped in when the U.S. economy faltered. Now that the dollar is regaining strength, they're still here. America – the land of the free, home of the brave and beacon to international real estate investors? While Francis Scott Key might spin in his grave with that last phrase, ...
Think Realty Awards of Distinction Honor Leaders in Real Estate Investing
Think Realty Magazine, the nation’s oldest continuously publishing news magazine dedicated to individual real estate investing, honors 19 outstanding leaders in the industry niche with the 2016 Think Realty Awards of Distinction. The prestigious awards will be presented in August in San Francisco as part of Think Realty’s Global Conference, an ...
Nationwide Foreclosure Activity Drops to Lowest Level in More Than Nine Years
RealtyTrac’s just-released Q1 and March 2016 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report™ shows first quarter foreclosure activity was below pre-recession levels in 78 out of 216 U.S. metropolitan statistical areas (36 percent) analyzed in the report. Nationwide, the report shows foreclosure filings—default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions—on 289,116 U.S. properties in ...
Homeownership No Longer Has Tax Savings
We believe we have found one of the primary reasons why entry-level home buying has not recovered—and why homeownership has been plunging. For decades, homeowners benefitted from both the financial and psychological benefits of paying less taxes. Homeownership came with income tax savings because mortgage interest plus property taxes easily exceeded ...
