Global Real Estate Services Combines Personal Services and Technology for Investing Success from Start to Finish By Carole Vansickle Ellis Mike McMullen, founder and CEO of Birmingham-based Global Real Estate Services, started investing in real estate in 2002 at the behest of his accountant. “He asked me why I had so much money in the stock market when I knew nothing about it and suggested I work in what I
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Average Risk-Adjusted Annual Return for BTR Investments Now about 8% By Greg Godderidge Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the build-to-rent (BTR) model was quietly gaining ground across the country, fueled by a shortage of housing supply and increasing demand for single-family rentals (SFR). Still, it was not on the radar for most SFR investors. However, as the pandemic exacerbated the supply and demand imbalance throughout 2020 and 2021, the BTR
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Auction is Ray of Hope for Homebuyers Frustrated by Tight Housing Market By Miriam Moore In a market where bidding wars and soaring home prices have become the status quo, consumers — especially 25- to 40-year-old buyers — are embracing a broader range of homebuying options. Specifically, three out of four millennials and a majority of consumers across generations told ServiceLink through a recent consumer survey that they would consider
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Analyzing the Differences Between BTR and SFR By Michael Cook Build-to-Rent (BTR)’s breakthrough in the Single-Family Rental (SFR) asset class is officially old news. In 2018, Toll Brothers teamed up with BB Living to create one of the first builder/operator partnerships. Other homebuilders quickly followed, developing their own line of BTR products by either creating their own property management division or partnering with established operators to manage a steady flow
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