From Dorm-Room Real Estate to Premier Magazine for Real Estate Investors by Carole VanSickle Ellis When Suzanne Andresen matriculated at the University of South Carolina to earn dual degrees in real estate and marketing, she did not let any grass grow under her feet. By the time she had become a senior and hall advisor in the dormitory, Andresen’s career in real estate was already in the works. “It was
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Gaining the Respect of the Motor City Sami Abdallah bought his first fix and flip house in Detroit while still a senior in high school. With the brief exception of “dabbling” in the business side of the music industry, Detroit real estate has always been his passion. And he has never looked back! Today, 35-year-old Abdallah is the president of Temple Homes in Detroit, Michigan. He estimates that he and
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Automate Your Processes to Increase Efficiency and Scale Marketing Efforts By Kori Covrigaru Demand for single-family rental homes is showing no sign of easing up. Nationally, rents rose 9.3% in August, year over year, up from a 2.2% year-over-year increase in August 2020, according to CoreLogic. As a result, investors continue to flood the market and are rushing to buy and build more rental properties, signaling a busy year ahead.
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Most of the Biggest Changes Remain Impossible to Predict By Sean Begley Single-family rental continues its streak as one of the nation’s hottest asset classes. Demand for single-family rental homes continues unabated and capital flows into the market are showing no signs of easing. At CAPE Analytics, our team works with a number of real estate investors to provide remote property intelligence, and we have a distinct view into how
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Connect the Dots to Better Marketing Performance By Charlie Calise Zillow announced in early November of this year that they were getting out of the business of buying and selling homes, with the chief executive acknowledging that the division was proving to be unsuccessful and it would be impossible to scale. The division, Zillow Offers, was an iBuyer company, one that uses algorithms to make mass, “instant offer” home buying
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The “Valley of the Sun” Is Not Too Hot to Handle Just Yet By Carole VanSickle Ellis When former Confederate soldier Jack Swilling moved west after the American Civil War in order to prospect for gold and, hopefully, start a new life, he certainly was not expecting that his excavation efforts would include making his fortune digging out the canals of an ancient, indigenous civilization that had abandoned the Arizona
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