Corporate Housing is Essential to Welcome New Businesses and Residents By Angela Healy The spring housing market tends to be the real estate industry’s peak season, and this year looks to be no different. In an already booming market, the ongoing increase in consumer behavior patterns such as relocation, remote work, and inventory availability add even more impact. Key consumer trends driving the real estate market will continue to do
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Improve Your Bottom Line by Offloading Risk by Adam Meshekow Every real estate investor can recall with great clarity and detail a time when a defaulting tenant caused thousands of dollars in damage to an apartment or home rental. While infrequent occurrences, when they do happen, they can ruin an otherwise strong annual financial performance. In a year of unprecedented rent default and massive unemployment, missed rents and bad debt
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Act Quickly, Honestly, and Decisively by Adam Stern The residential housing market is HOT. Inventory is down in all major markets acrossthe country, prices have risen precipitously for consecutive years since the late 2010’s, and the influx of capital into the rental housing space has been steady and ever increasing. Low inventory, cheap money, and the driver? People are renting homes at a faster pace than ever before. The confluence
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…And Why So Many Housing Economists Got It Wrong by Brian Fluhr One year ago, at the onset of the Coronavirus pandemic, housing economists were making dire predictions for the market. The demise of housing did not play out the way many anticipated for several reasons but foremost because strong economic housing fundamentals were already in place pre-pandemic. These fundamentals included the durable credit of borrowers, balanced debt-to-income ratios, and
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The Pandemic Gave the Real Estate Industry a Crystal Ball to Identify Emerging Trends by Erica LaCentra Despite the global pandemic, the real estate investing space, in particular single-family rental, is booming. The SFR market was one of the best performing areas of real estate in 2020 as it mirrored the strong performance seen with single-family purchases. The thing with SFR is that it is a very attractive asset class
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The RealtyTrac Investor Sentiment Survey™ by Rick Sharga Individual investors today face unprecedented challenges in the real estate market. Limited supply, soaring prices, and unprecedented competition from both institutional investors and traditional homebuyers. How do investors feel about market conditions today? Is the investment market better or worse than it was a year ago, and will it be better or worse six months from now? What are the biggest barriers
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