Year: 2020

Playing Bigger, Buying Better

Playing Bigger, Buying Better

Entera.ai Cracks the Code to Control and Scale in Real Estate When you hear words like “machine learning” and “artificial intelligence,” you might think more about algorithms and search bots than you do about real estate. Prepare to rethink that after you learn what the leadership team at Entera...

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Q&A With Strategy Investment Group

Q&A With Strategy Investment Group

Mike Jordan takes a practical approach to profitable investing, focusing on strategy and diversification.  When Mike Jordan, founder and president of Detroit-based Strategy Investment Group thinks about his greatest successes, the first thing that springs to mind has nothing to do with real...

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Risk Mitigation Isn’t Just For “Risk Managers”

Risk Mitigation Isn’t Just For “Risk Managers”

Risk mitigation starts with originations, continues through relationship management and lending, and merely “plays out” if a loan starts going sideways. By then it can be too late … It’s often been said, “The time between economic recessions in the United States is like a baseball game, one inning...

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Avoiding the Money Pit

Avoiding the Money Pit

Assessing and maintaining investment properties in growing portfolios In the classic 1980s movie “The Money Pit,” Walter (Tom Hanks) and Anna (Shelley Long) are house-sitting a New York City apartment owned by Anna’s ex-husband. When he suddenly evicts them, they decide to purchase a home and...

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Zoning Isn’t Your Problem

Zoning Isn’t Your Problem

Looking at the potential issues a project may face and taking the steps to minimize them early will help keep you on budget and on schedule. When developers, investors or builders look at a new project, everyone knows to consider the zoning and the entitlements necessary for the project to happen....

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The Economic Bubble is Hiding in Plain Sight

The Economic Bubble is Hiding in Plain Sight

Investors, beware and be aware—constriction is coming. We are so far into the longest economic expansion in the history of the U.S. that just about everyone—no matter how bullish on their particular market—is stuck in a waiting pattern. Currently, our economy, our country and, arguably, our...

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Title Insurance Giant First American to Buy Docutech

First American Financial Coporation announced in mid-February that it has reached an agreement to purchase Docutech—a provider of document, eClose and fulfillment technology for the mortgage industry—for $350 million. Docutech’s management team, including President and CEO Amy Brandt, will...

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Blue Ocean Acquires Waterfront Multifamily Community

Maryland-based real estate firm Blue Ocean has expanded its footprint into Howard County, Maryland, with its acquisition of The River Front Apartments in Savage, Maryland. The 144-unit, water-front and gated, residential community is located in Howard County, a few milesfrom downtown Columbia. The...

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