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Strong Equity Stakes Alone May Not Be Enough to Stave Off Foreclosure Starts

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But Will Reduce Inflow of Distressed Properties Into Housing Market — Though Black Knight research shows just 7% of homeowners in forbearance have less than 10% equity after including 18 months of deferred payments, the potential for foreclosure activity persists regardless — While homeowners with limited equity were much more likely to be referred to foreclosure during the early stages of the Great Recession, foreclosure start rates on 120+ day

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REAL ESTATE INVESTORS HAVE SOURED ON THE CURRENT MARKET

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Individual residential real estate investors are concerned over the impact that rising home prices and the lack of housing inventory are having on their real estate investments. Perceived risk of losing market share to iBuyers and other institutional investors is also on the rise. RealtyTrac® recently completed its second RealtyTrac Investor Sentiment Survey surveying over 300 individual real estate investors across the country to find out how they viewed the market, what

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To Afford Rent, Teachers and Nurses Are Living in Smaller, Older Homes

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Manageable rent burdens mask affordability challenges for many workers who can afford only a small pool of available rentals – Rent burdens for many workers in fully in-person jobs, including teachers and nurses, have remained largely unchanged over the past five years, even as rent prices have grown significantly. – However, only a small share of rental homes in many large markets are priced low enough to allow teachers and

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Aaron Katz and Jeremy Gavin

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Straight From College to Real Estate Aaron Katz and Jeremy Gavin were college roommates at the University of Massachusetts – Amherst when they first decided to get involved in real estate investing. After graduating in 2001, they began searching for their first investment property. With no money and no experience, they found a multi-family property, got a loan for the down payment and convinced the seller to fund the repairs.

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Home Flipping Increases While Profit Margins Continue to Drop

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Typical Profit Margins Slump to 10-year Low ATTOM, curator of the nation’s premier property database, released its second-quarter 2021 U.S. Home Flipping Report showing that 79,733 single-family homes and condominiums in the United States were flipped in the second quarter. Those transactions represented 4.9 percent of all home sales in the second quarter of 2021, or one in 20 transactions – the first increase in more than a year. The

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A Guide to Property Insights

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Streamlining Your Operations to Make Your Portfolio More Profitable By Kori Covrigaru Does managing your real estate investment portfolio leave you feeling stressed? Single-family rental (SFR) investors have a host of logistical and operational tasks that can put pressure on their schedules and limit profitability. Vendor management issues, material ordering mistakes, long-distance SFR management headaches — problems always seem to arise when investors least expect them. Property Insights provides full-service

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