New construction is taking up a bigger piece of the pie as low mortgage rates and surging homebuyer demand make homebuilding more attractive during the coronavirus pandemic More than a quarter (25.7%) of single-family homes for sale in America during the first quarter were new-construction homes,...
Month: May 2021
U.S. Foreclosure Activity Continues to Increase Despite Government Moratorium
Number of Homes Flipped by Investors Decreases for First Time Since 2014 ATTOM Data Solutions, licensor of the nation’s most comprehensive foreclosure data and parent company to RealtyTrac (realtytrac.com), released its Q1 2021 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, which shows there were a total...
Single-Family Rentals Have More Runway Ahead
Institutional Investors Reconsider the ‘Get Out’ Portion of Their Initial ‘Get In, Get Out’ Purchase Strategy by Steven Katz These days, it is rare to pick up any real estate publication and not see a single-family rental (SFR) headline near the top of the page. Industry attention and...
Investor Profile
Jeffrey Hotz From Musician to Real Estate Entrepreneur As the son of a real estate agent mother, Jeff Hotz always had a passion for real estate. He also had a passion for music. After graduating high school, Jeff joined the United States Marine Corps with the express goal of being a musician in...
ServiceLink
Scaling Your Residential Real Estate Portfolio Through SFR Properties 2021 could be the ideal year for investing in SFR properties. Here’s where to find the support you need to grow your residential property portfolio. “More U.S. households are renting than in any point in 50 years.” When Pew...
Q&A with Jennifer McGuinness, President of Invigorate Finance
Starting a New Chapter and Looking Ahead REI INK had the opportunity to interview Jennifer McGuinness, the president of Invigorate Finance, a newly formed partnership between Mortgage Venture Partners and Fay Financial. McGuinness brings over twenty-five years of lending and aggregation, banking,...
Savannah, Georgia
The “Hostess City” is Primed for Growth, Perfect for Investors by Carole VanSickle Ellis In March 2020, the outlook seemed uncertain for the Savannah, Georgia, economy. Analysts looked at the city that is host to the largest and fastest-growing container terminal in America, the Port of Savannah,...
Delivering the Best in Information & Inventory
RealtyTrac is Ready to Optimize Established Strengths & New Ones by Carole VanSickle Ellis RealtyTrac, one of the oldest and most established names in the web-based real estate space, is putting “the pedal to the metal,” as parent company ATTOM Data Solutions’ CEO Rob Barber puts it—and, as is...
Prospecting Is Getting Harder in the SFR Gold Rush
Use Smart Technology to Strike Gold by Tim Reilly A confluence of forces has turned the market for single-family rental (SFR) properties into something resembling a gold rush. As buyers, speculators and institutional investors lean into the market in search for real estate value, the odds of...









