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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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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Why is the Southwest Florida Real Estate Market So Hot?
The real estate market nationwide is seeing unprecedented surges. One of the hottest markets in the US is Southwest Florida. As of November 2021, Southwest Florida is showing 0.3 months of inventory in Collier, Lee and Charlotte counties, which is down 80% of where we should be for a balanced ...
Think Realty Magazine January/February 2022
+ WHAT'S INSIDE Investor Stories | Local Real Estate Investors Improve Communities One House at a Time • A Woman to Watch: Eboni Killian Fundamentals | The Power of Partnerships • Instagram-Worthy Staging and Photography • What Does Leadership for a Property Manager Look Like? • Contractual Unity in a ...
I have lived in every major city in Texas. It’s all great! But there’s just something about Houston that draws me in. After living in Austin and other cities, we finally moved back to the Houston area in December 2011, and in the short amount of time that we were ...
Driving through the mountain, over the Ohio river with houses all around and the skyline of Cincinnati ahead, the view can be quite breathtaking. I remember driving through the city as a kid with my parents and being mesmerized by its beauty. My mom was born in Cincinnati and grew ...
A Demographic Shift Prime for Investment
With inflation on the rise and uncertainty growing, investors look to the horizon, watching for patterns and identifying changes that point to opportunity. The desire to diversify amid growing market concerns is nothing new. For years, investors have looked for the best methods to increase return on investment while ensuring ...
How Investors and Renters Should Assess a Neighborhood in New York
You’re living the dream now. A respectable figure in the bank, an arguably good number of choices to find a sense of solace in a place like New York—but wait. Since you have come so far, you would want to make the most of your money and space now, wouldn’t ...
Why Market Price is the Right Price in Dubai
The performance of Dubai’s property market in 2021 has been nothing short of phenomenal, with transaction levels of Dh88.12 billion ($23.99bn) in the first 8 months - surpassing the entire volume of 2020’s transactions by 22.6% according to data from real estate portal Property Finder. It is an incredible rebound ...
Think Realty Magazine December 2021
+ WHAT'S INSIDE Investor Stories | Titan Talk Featuring Garrett Sutton • Presidents' Circle Featuring Marco Santarelli Fundamentals | The Social Impact of Real Estate • Tax Benefits with Short-Term Rentals • 5 Factors for Real REI Success • Commercial Review • How to Buy or Sell a Property Management ...
December 2021 Commercial Review
+ WHAT'S INSIDE Commercial Review | Diversify Your Portfolio with Self-Storage • Multifamily Investors Venture Beyond Gateway Markets • Hotel Outlook Remains Bifurcated in 2022 • Industrial Real Estate Report: How E-Commerce & Global Shipping Defined 2021 • Commercial Real Estate Post-COVID ...
Industrial Real Estate Report: How E-Commerce & Global Shipping Defined 2021
Economic downturns, like the one caused by the pandemic, have ripple effects that are felt at every level of the economy—and the real estate market was no exception to this rule. The effects of work-from-home mandates and reduced consumer spending were felt in commercial real estate, though some asset classes ...
Political Advocacy in the REI Industry
Every year in every state capital and every day in Washington, D.C. and your local town, politicians get together to pass laws. The simple truth is that most Americans blissfully go about their day with no knowledge that elected officials meeting behind closed doors are in the process of “goring ...
Bursting the Real Estate Bubble Concerns
While it might feel like we’re in a similar housing market bubble circa 2006, it’s not the same. In order for there to be a bubble in the first place, there has to be a catalyst that causes the housing market to crash. Historically, there are a variety of factors ...
3 Ways to Invest in the UK Property Market
The UK property market is on track to record its strongest year since 2007, with nearly £500bn (~$680bn) in home sales and annual house price inflation currently averaging 13% across the country. Many analysts are forecasting continued momentum in the UK market, despite potential headwinds such as increased living costs ...
New Study Reveals Growing Disparity Between Income and Home Prices Nationwide
It’s not just you — buying a home has objectively gotten a lot more difficult the past several years. That’s one of the primary findings of a new study by Real Estate Witch, which uses an analysis of publicly available U.S. Census data to paint a disturbing picture of the ...
Think Realty Magazine November 2021
+ WHAT'S INSIDE Investor Stories | Community Impact • Presidents' Circle Featuring Aaron Chapman Fundamentals | The Subdivision Market • A Mastermind Mindset • Invest for Cause and Community • Grow Your Property Management Business • Investor Review • Wholesaling Integrity • Property Development Is About People Investor Review | ...
Hot Spots for Home Construction
The ongoing supply and labor shortages induced by the pandemic have paralyzed most industries in America, but not construction. Over the last two years, residential construction has surged across the U.S., according to an in-depth report using US Census Bureau data by Omnis Panels. The report analyzed new building permit ...
Empty Downtown Offices: America’s Next Hot Apartment Trend?
During the pandemic, U.S. workers turned their homes into offices. Now, office buildings turned into homes could be a major real estate trend. Remote work emptied office buildings across the country. Commercial vacancy rates are higher than they've been in years. Developers are ready to convert vacant office buildings into homes ...
Think Realty Honors the Life of Gene Guarino
Think Realty honors the life of an industry icon, Gene Guarino, who passed away last week. Gene was instrumental in creating investment opportunities in senior assisted living and truly made an impact on the real estate investing industry. Founder of IMPACT Housing Group, he also created RAL Academy, an educational ...
Investing in Real Estate for Senior Citizens
Senior citizens (people over the age of 65) currently make up 16% of the population in America according to the US Census Bureau. That’s a revealing statistic in terms of your potential real estate investment success. Why? Because if you consider there are over 70 million seniors making decisions about ...
Cities Where Apartment Living Best Supports the Work-from-Home Reality
Remote work has been an option for some workers in the past few years, but the pandemic has pushed the movement into the mainstream. As a result, the home took center stage for those workers that could carry out their job duties remotely. This meant that for renters — who, ...
As the Pandemic Persists, Renter Preferences Continue to Shift
The global COVID-19 pandemic accelerated multifamily trends that were already in place prior to the virus’s arrival – work from home (WFH), migration away from expensive gateway markets, and increasing investor interest in apartment properties. Now, more than 18 months into the pandemic, it’s obvious that those trends have accelerated ...
Commercial Real Estate Investors Follow Migration Trends
Housing shortfall back in the spotlight. Employment growth, reopening economies, and the revival of population mobility in the first half of 2021 led more people to search for residences after being locked in place during much of last year. This amplified the ongoing housing shortage in the U.S., a storyline ...
Lessons in Diversification from COVID-19
Investors regularly reassess their portfolios and rebalance in order to achieve diversification. And many view this process as a way to tweak their portfolios, making small changes. But the last year has shown us how quickly macro-sized changes can occur. These events should encourage us to broaden our concept of ...
October 2021 Commercial Review
+ WHAT'S INSIDE Commercial Review | The Passive Investing Lifestyle • Managing the Lifecycle of a Storage Facility • As the Pandemic Persists,Renter Preferences Continue to Shift • Cities Where Apartment Living Best Supports the Work-from-Home Reality ...
Think Realty Magazine October 2021
+ WHAT'S INSIDE News | Think Realty Honors Winners Investor Stories | Presidents' Circle Featuring Abhi Golhar Fundamentals | An Alternative Approach to Diversification • Ten Best Practices for Relationship Management • Commercial Review • 6 Reasons to Choose Multifamily Rentals •How to Diversify Your Marketing Strategy Commercial Review | ...
