Elevated housing costs, a slower-than-usual housing market and a cooling rental market are squeezing potential returns for U.S. investors U.S. investor home purchases fell 6% year over year in the first quarter to their lowest level since 2020, when the start of the pandemic ground homebuying to a...
In this episode of Uncontested Investing, we continue our conversation on one of the most underrated drivers of long-term real estate success: strong networking and relationship skills. In Part 1, we talked about trust, reciprocity, off-market opportunities, and why the best investors are usually...
Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE), one of the world's leading providers of financial market technology and data powering global capital markets, released the April 2026 ICE First Look at mortgage delinquency, foreclosure and prepayment trends. “Mortgage performance remained broadly...
Rental concessions — move-in incentives and other freebies — hit a record high for this time of year 39.8% of rentals on Zillow offered concessions this spring — up 5 percentage points from a year ago, according to a new Zillow analysis. Incentives are most common in Denver (68.3%), Charlotte...
Home purchase lending falls 19 percent quarter-over-quarter to 581,261 loans; Total residential mortgage originations decline 13 percent to 1.57 million ATTOM, the leading provider of property data, AI-powered intelligence, and real estate analytics solutions, released its U.S. Residential...
In this episode of Uncontested Investing, we kick off a new theme on one of the most underrated advantages in real estate investing: strong networking and relationship skills. After our recent conversation with Scott Brown from Steadily, it became even clearer that real estate is still a...
Contract Signings Are Up 4.5% As the Spring Housing Market Becomes More Active Than Any Point Since Rates Surged In 2022 Realtor.com® released its Spring 2026 Housing Market Progress Report, which finds that new listings and contract signings have each reached their highest levels since 2022, with...
In this episode of Uncontested Investing, we continue our conversation with Scott Brown from Steadily and go deeper into the relationship side of real estate investing, specifically how strong partnerships, smart networking, and better insurance strategy can help investors protect and grow their...
Redfin reports more than half of home sellers are cutting prices in San Antonio, Austin, Dallas and Phoenix, which remain strong buyer’s markets More than one-third (35.4%) of U.S. home sellers cut their asking price in April, according to a new report from Redfin, the real estate brokerage...
