REI INK

Regional Spotlight: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

The Steel City’s innovative spirit keeps the market hot under duress. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has not historically been a city of extremes. During the housing boom, the subsequent housing crash and the Great Recession of the early 2000s, property values remained largely flat relative to the dramatic swings in the rest of the country. During the last 30 years, unemployment rates have never ventured into double-digit territory. Instead, they have remained

Read More

A History of Commitment to Growth in Real Estate

Radian combines strategy, innovation to support the American Dream Single-family rental real estate is an institution that arguably dates to feudal times, and the single-family rental has existed in various forms in the U.S. since the founding of Jamestown. Radian may not date to colonial days, but the company does boast more than four decades in the mortgage insurance and SFR services space. The roots of Radian run deep, and

Read More

The Importance of Including HOAs in Your Due Diligence

Your real estate due diligence checklist isn’t complete if it doesn’t include homeowners’ associations. The need for due diligence in real estate transactions should go without saying, but many buyers fast-track through some important areas of the process. Whether you’re a first-time homebuyer or an investment institution, ensuring your due diligence stage is thorough and complete is nonnegotiable. Most, if not all, real estate transactions have similar pathways to closing

Read More

Tapping into Trillions

Using self-directed IRAs for private funding Whether you are a first-time homebuyer, an experienced fix-and-flipper or an expert in rentals, there is always a need for funds. Investors will always need money for deals, and sometimes traditional bank loans aren’t available to everyone. Or others just prefer the flexibility of setting their own terms on a deal. Although there are plenty of options available for private financing, many investors prefer

Read More

Trends in Interior Paint

Just in time for fall—out with the warm and in with the cool! In today’s real estate market, there is a trend that many sellers are overlooking. It is one of the most basic and cost-effective ways to increase the values of their homes—interior paint. What the studies are saying about millennial homebuyers as it pertains to preferences in real estate are true. Millennials are not looking to put sweat

Read More

The Great Migration

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 from densely populated urban centers and toward more spacious dwellings in the suburbs. This trend is so significant that it is driving headlines

Read More