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BPOs Help Evaluate Shifting Investment Markets

A Trusted Valuation Strategy By Kade Clark The investment-purpose single-family residential purchase market in the U.S. has seen significant growth in recent years, with several key metropolitan areas emerging as top destinations for investors. In these markets, the ability to fairly estimate the value of investment properties efficiently can be the difference between profit and loss. Evaluating properties at scale locally, regionally, or nationally may be particularly difficult. With different

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Essential Benefits of Managed Services for Your Property

Why Investors are Using Managed Service Providers in 2024 By Fay Smith Modern property management cannot do without managed services. Investors compare managed service providers (MSPs) to dynamos, citing their ability to clear the way for resources, render assets “bulletproof,” and exponentially increase property values. MSPs are typically defined in real estate as third-party providers of services related to property and asset management. For example, MSPs may offer services like

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Lower Variances to Improve Efficiencies

Making or Breaking Your Fix and Flip Deals By Joshua Jensen Over my 15+ years as a real estate investor, there is one single piece of advice that always proves true more than any other: “You make your money when you buy the home.” What this boils down to is the better you negotiate and the tighter you control costs, the better the final profit is. Continuing with my one

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State of the Single-Family Rental Market

The National Rental Report By HouseCanary HouseCanary, Inc., a national brokerage known for its innovation and accuracy of real estate information, released its latest National Rental Report, showing that Single-Family Rental (SFR) inventory and days-on-market continue to see gradual growth, which increased at 16.7% and 15.4%, respectively. The increases in both metrics were driven by trends seen in the southern states. Consequently, and consistent with preceding reports, the stable growth seen

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New Actions to Lower Housing Costs

Cutting Red Tape to Build More Housing By David Howard Recently the Biden Administration proposed a number of actions and policy reforms designed to spur new housing development. The administration’s clear intent is to reduce and recast existing regulatory barriers that restrict or disincentivize the production of new housing, especially affordable housing. The actions announced are listed below with narrative explanations reprinted from a White House fact sheet. Making funding available

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U.S. Foreclosure Activity Sees a Monthly Increase in July 2024

Foreclosure Starts Increase 18%; Completed Foreclosures Increase 14% By ATTOM Team ATTOM, a leading curator of land, property, and real estate data, released its July 2024 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, which shows there were a total of 31,929 U.S. properties with foreclosure filings — default notices, scheduled auctions or bank repossessions — up 15% from a month ago and up slightly by .2% from a year ago. “July’s foreclosure activity

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