Sourcing the Right Agent Within the Single-Family Market With the spring homebuying season underway, REI INK asked Steve Johnston, CEO of IDEAL AGENT, how to sell single-family homes as quickly as possible at the maximum price. IDEAL AGENT’s goal is to help sellers earn top dollar on their...
A Winning Strategy for Main Street and Wall Street By Stuart Denyer It is no secret that the single-family housing market faces a severely constricted supply of inventory. Reports suggest that the country has experienced an “underbuilding gap” of 5.5 to 6.8 million units since 2001 with only a...
“Famously Hot” for Decades, City Remains a “Southern Hot Spot” By Carole Vansickle Ellis Columbia, South Carolina, has considered itself “Famously Hot” since 2008, when the state capital officially swapped its former slogan, “Where Friendliness Flows,” for the simpler description referencing,...
Will Other Factors Impact the Industry in 2022? By Tim Reilly This time last year, I compared the Single-Family Rental (SFR) market to the great Gold Rush of 1849. Supply constriction, low interest rates, rising home and rental prices and strong returns created a highly attractive environment for...
Picket Homes is Transforming Residential Real Estate By Carole Vansickle Ellis Picket Homes was founded in 2019 in response to what the company’s founders saw as a looming sea change in the single-family residential real estate sector. “We had built out a roadmap for how we thought the industry...
Transitioning From a Default Property to a Paying Asset By Nickalene Badalamenti-Kalas The government-mandated forbearance period on default properties expires this coming June. These properties will increasingly require eviction and asset stabilization services to ready them for new tenants. What...
Single Family Homes vs Multi-Family Homes By Scott Sklare As an investor, real estate broker, advisor, and owner of a property management and rehab company, I am often asked, what I prefer: Single Family Homes (SFH) or Multi-Family Homes (MFH). My honest answer is “it depends!” I happen to prefer...
Title Clearing is An Often-Overlooked Area for Risk Mitigation By Dax Junker Risk and reward have always been intrinsically bound together across investment types – including real estate. The more risk an investor is willing to take on an investment, in general, the higher the potential rate of...
There’s a Lot to be Learned from Homebuyer Behaviors By Miriam Moore The dramatic real estate landscape of the past two years has given lenders, servicers and investors the opportunity to see just how directly market conditions can shape homebuyer behaviors and influence their perspectives. And...
