Using Your Core Values for Record Performance by Peter DiLello Investing in real estate demands constant adjustments to factors outside our control. That has been particularly true this year, as the world confronts a global pandemic. At Invitation Homes, we spent the early days of the COVID-19...
The SFR Industry Resiliency By: Adam Stern, CEO, Strata SFR There are some industries that tend to do better than average or even flourish during times of economic downturn. If we look back to past recessions in the US, those tended to be segments of the economy where demand does not much...
What does the urban center exodus and work-from-home evolution mean for real estate investors? The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted many things about our lives, and these changes run much deeper than wearing masks and social distancing. In the housing market, the pandemic has renewed a trend away...
When times change, people change too. Bob Dylan famously sang, “The times they are a’changin.’” We can certainly say they’re a’changin’ as a result of COVID-19’s business as unusual. Here are just a few. Impact of Working From Home People are becoming accustomed to working from home. This means...
With any luck, demand will heat up the housing market this summer. Spring is a home-buying season. However, the 2020 season had a false start. 2020 started with new and existing home sales at a 12-year high. In late February to early March, mortgage applications were up, and the market looked...
What is your Advantage? For the past 20 years, I have worked with hundreds of entrepreneurs from all career backgrounds while being an executive at HomeVestors, The We Buy Ugly Houses people. Each one had a common desire to build a profitable business buying, rehabbing and selling single-family...
What that means for real estate investors? There might have been some question about whether the coronavirus would lead the U.S. into a recession. The hoarding of toilet paper makes me think it’s certain. Not because we’ll run out of toilet paper—the U.S. and Canada produce volumes of it—but...
Investors, beware and be aware—constriction is coming. We are so far into the longest economic expansion in the history of the U.S. that just about everyone—no matter how bullish on their particular market—is stuck in a waiting pattern. Currently, our economy, our country and, arguably, our...
The new asset class on Wall Street is single-family homes, with a new focus on build-to-rent communities. In 1979, I purchased my first single-family investment property. It was located in Williamsville, New York, and I paid $23,200 for it at a mortgage foreclosure. After investing slightly more...
