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Top 10 U.S. Metros for the Highest Vacancy Rates
For investors, understanding the overall health of a market is imperative to success. One metric — an area’s vacancy rates — can help not only in determining financing needs but also how much you can hope to sell the property for. And thanks to a recent report from LendingTree, investors ...
2019 Women to Watch: Christina Suter
In this article we pick up our Women to Watch series, featuring seven standout female real estate investors to watch in 2019. Read the full intro here. How did you get started investing in real estate? I started in real estate when I was 17 years old. My mom gave me ...
2019 Women to Watch: Monick Halm
Throughout our years in this industry, we've met and worked with impressive women who are shaping the industry, and we feel it's our duty as a trusted voice in this sector to highlight them. In this year's Women to Watch series, we are showcasing seven standout female real estate investors ...
What to Do When a Resident Passes Away
Rental homes bear witness to the entire scope of human life. From birth to death and everything in between, it is important for a property owner to be prepared for all of life’s eventualities. When a tenant passes away in a rental home, there are a number of steps that ...
Three Tips to Scale Your Multifamily Passive Investing Business
We get it — you’re busy. Perhaps it’s a full-time job, new kiddo or you simply want to enjoy your retirement. Whatever the case may be, you can still passively invest in apartment syndications and achieve returns that are greater than those of stocks, bonds, REITs, and other investment vehicles ...
iBuyer Growth Grounded in Speed, Simplicity and Certainty of a Cash Purchase
Cash is king in a home sale — and cash buyers are often able to buy below market value — because cash represents speed, simplicity and certainty for the home seller. More to the point, sellers attach some monetary value to speed, simplicity and certainty in a home sales transaction ...
One Marine, One Navy Pilot and One Vision to Buy America
When U.S. Marine veteran Andy Williams met Navy pilot Stuart Grazier, it didn’t take long to realize they were two men with the same vision. Andy, founder of Recon Realty, had blazed a path through real estate ever since purchasing his first property while deployed to Iraq. He had breached ...
Survey: Home Sellers Question Value of Realtors, but Still Use Them
As new technology disrupts the world of real estate, home sellers are growing increasingly skeptical of the value realtors bring to the dealmaking table. But while that skepticism seems rich among sellers’ sentiments — in particular with Millennials — most will still turn to a realtor to sell their home, ...
Building Empowerment: HGTV Star Jasmine Roth Inspires Confidence
If you ask Jasmine Roth when she first ventured into real estate, the blossoming star of HGTV’s “Hidden Potential” has to laugh. “I would say in utero,” Roth responded with a chuckle. “My parents moved from New Jersey to Virginia when I was just a thought. They bought a piece of ...
Report: Fifth of Home Sellers Dropped Prices in February
Continuing a recent overture of good news for prospective buyers and investors, about one in five homes for sale dropped in prices last month. February saw 21.1 percent of homes for sale nationwide drop in price, which was the largest rate drop in the last decade, according to a report ...
3 Lead Generation Pitfalls that Will Cost you Time and Money
Editor’s Note: This content is sponsored by Realeflow and produced in collaboration with Think Realty. Click here for more information on Realeflow and its special promotion for Think Realty readers. For time-strapped investors, lead generation can appear to be a juggling act fraught with challenges. From sourcing prospects and persistent ...
Spring into Early Success this Season with these Six Maintenance Steps
For many of us, "springing forward” into Daylight Savings Time is when we leave winter behind. This year, it arrives March 10. Whether you invest in areas that experience dramatic or moderate temperature shifts, the following tips will help you stay on top of routine maintenance and avoid major expenditures ...
Flipping Flop? Fix-and-Flip Deals Decline in Rates, Returns
Returns and sales for single-family and condo flipping are struggling, according to a new report from ATTOM Data Solutions. 207,957 single-family homes and condos were flipped in 2018, down about 4 percent from 216,537 flips in 2017, according to ATTOM’s U.S. Home Flipping Report. Flips comprised about on 5.6 percent ...
Millennials Flexing Buying Power, Boosting Homeownership Rates for Two Years
In spite of bleak headlines saying homeownership evades their grasp, Millennials for the last two years have helped drive growing homeownership rates, according to new U.S. Census Bureau data. Thanks in large part to people under 35, the U.S. homeownership rate grew to 64.8 percent in the fourth quarter of ...
Think Realty Magazine March/April 2019
+ WHAT'S INSIDE Think Realty | News & Events • Virtual Assistants Help Time-Strapped Investors Conquer Leads, Social Media •One Marine, One Navy Pilot and One Vision to Buy America • From Instagram to HGTV •Think Realty's Tribute to Linda Liberatore Special Section | Think Realty's 2019 Women to Watch ...
Lowering Barriers, Startup Roofstock Offers Investors Shares of Homes
Proptech startup Roofstock is aiming to create more real estate investors with their platform that allows people to buy shares of homes for as low as $5,000. The Oakland-based tech firm created a marketplace that offers its users a lower barrier to entry to become investors in single-family rental homes ...
Study Reveals the Best Month for Sellers to List their Home
As the realtors prepare for what’s anticipated to be a booming Spring season, sellers are eyeing when exactly to list their homes. And thanks to a recent study from Zillow, sellers have more insight on when to list to maximize their time and returns. Data indicates that not only do ...
Despite Historically-Low Rates, Foreclosures Increasing in Areas
While mortgage delinquency has dropped to historic lows, there are pockets of the U.S. seeing an uptick in foreclosure starts, according to a report from ATTOM Data Solutions. A handful of states are reporting year-over-year increases in foreclosure starts, including Montana (up 48 percent), Minnesota (up 29 percent), Nebraska (up ...
Zillow Report Details the Best Big Cities for Buying, Selling
As the Spring selling season looms, investors will have to look at opposite coasts for the best locales in which to buy and sell homes, according to a recent Zillow report. The East Coast hosts seven of the top 10 metros that have the best conditions for buyers, according to ...
Celebrating the life of Linda Liberatore
Since we announced her as a Think Realty Resident Expert (formerly Coach) on November 1, 2017, Linda Liberatore embodied our educational program, our brand, and became one of our team’s all-time favorite people. We truly considered her part of our Think Realty family and were shocked and saddened to hear ...
10 Years Later: How the 50 Biggest Metros have Recovered Since the Great Recession
In 2008, many homeowners were devastated by a financial crisis spurred on by the collapse of the U.S. real estate market, otherwise known as the Great Recession. Of course, much has changed in the decade since the United States’ subprime mortgage crisis and real estate values have skyrocketed around the ...
Jasmine Roth’s Four Tips to Upgrade Your Investor Chops and Increase Home Value
When you’ve built, redesigned or flipped dozens of homes like HGTV’s “Hidden Potential” host Jasmine Roth, you know what attracts buyers. Here are some of Roth’s tips to improve your investment game and boost returns. 1. Timeless design Don’t waste your time scouring the Internet for the most stylish aesthetics, ...
4 Real Estate Investment Strategies For Newbies
Investing in real estate is nothing new. With the popularity of real estate shows on television, it can give anybody the feeling that they can do that too and be super successful at it. What many people don’t realize is the amount of work that can go into real estate ...
How Will the New Tax Law Affect Real Estate Investors?
While it may not be the most exciting topic, understanding the new tax law could save you significant time and money. Taking effect in 2018, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is the most significant change to U.S. tax law since the Tax Reform Act of 1986. And to the ...
Google Plans Enormous Real Estate Spending in 14 States
Google is planning to shell out serious cash toward real estate in 2019. The tech titan recently announced that it plans to spend about $13 billion to expand its already massive footprint throughout the United States. The capital will largely be allocated toward data centers and offices across the U.S. as ...
