Technology Can Help Those Who are Still Looking to Find Opportunities By Tim Reilly The real estate market has changed dramatically over the last year. With home price appreciation softening market-to-market and inflation running wild, something had to give. Successive increases in mortgage interest rates beginning in the second half 2022 put the brakes on the previous year’s unprecedented homebuying activity as the housing market shifted into a new ‘price
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 a growing population of professional investors searching for the same hidden treasure. The “Goldilocks” market conditions triggered in part by the COVID-19
Use Smart Technology to Strike Gold by Tim Reilly A confluence of forces has turned the market for single-family rental (SFR) properties into something resembling a gold rush. As buyers, speculators and institutional investors lean into the market in search for real estate value, the odds of finding an overlooked nugget in the gold mine are decreasing. Timing is the key, and smart buyers who are prepared to act quickly
What opportunities lie ahead? For the real estate market, the pandemic has revealed underlying weaknesses in some otherwise dependable investments and surprising strength in others. The single-family rental (SFR) market, in particular, has proven to be exceptionally resilient. Cautious Optimism in April As the COVID-19 crisis dawned, industry participants were cautiously optimistic during their first quarter earnings calls. Rent collections in March were better than many had expected, with April