Image from Pixabay By Adiel Gorel Many investors are asking, now that interest rates have gone up by 2% relatively quickly, and home prices are up significantly from a couple of years ago, whether buying single-family rental investments is still something to consider. The main point, at the Continue Reading
Compelling Reasons Why You Should Invest in Real Estate
Image from Pixabay By Lloyd Segal, President, Los Angeles County Real Estate Investors Association If you’re considering investing in real estate, looked it up on the internet, read about it in books, attended some workshops, and perhaps ask a friend or two, you already know that you should no Continue Reading
What Makes a Good Real Estate Note?
Image from Pixabay By W. J. Mencarow The value of a note ultimately depends upon the economic conditions that support the value of the property. An owner-occupied single family house in a good neighborhood located in an area with a long-term stable economy is the best collateral possible. Continue Reading
Tokyo’s Urban to Suburban Migration
Image from Pixabay By Priti Donnelly For years, Japan has tried to prevent its population from being overly concentrated in Tokyo, a city sprawling with nightlife, work life, and a tourist hotspot. Economic and social shifts of the pandemic developed into the start of a natural progression of Continue Reading
Have You Considered Adding Brownfield Development to Your Real Estate Portfolio?
Image from Pixabay By Patricia Gage, Principal,RE Solutions It’s understood that having a real estate component within your investment strategy is a tried-and-true way to diversify your risk and increase your investment returns. And while most people and companies find real estate Continue Reading
The Capitalization Approach to Income Property Valuation
Image from Pixabay By Dan HarkeyReal Estate & Finance Consultant Definition of capitalization of earnings: The concept of the capitalization approach is a method of estimating the fair value of an asset such as income-producing real estate by calculating the net present value (NPV) of Continue Reading
Caveat Investor (Part 1)
Image from Pexels By Bruce Kellogg Why Caveat Investor? There have been many changes in real estate since the boom began in 2010 after the Great Recession. To name a few: 1) Real estate licensees have increased about 40%. 2) Syndicators are gobbling up apartments, self-storage, mobile home Continue Reading
Is Austin The Wrong Place to Invest In 2021?
Image from Pixabay By Adiel Gorel I get many calls from people interested in buying in various cities and want my opinion. One of the popular markets right now is the Austin metro area (people get excited about the overall thriving of the local high-tech scene, Elon Musk publicly decamping Continue Reading
Enhanced Diligence for Syndication Investing
Image by Pexels By Bruce Kellogg What About Enhanced Diligence? In the beginning, commercial real estate brokers invented the term “due diligence”. Lacking a specific definition, it basically means, “Check it out”, when making a real estate purchase. Nowadays, the term has received wider Continue Reading
California’s Gold Rush for Valuable Land
Image from Pixabay By Rick Tobin California’s nickname is the “Golden State” for many reasons as it relates to the gold discovered at Sutter’s Mill by James Marshall near the city of Coloma in 1848, skyrocketing real estate prices, a Top 5 global economy ranking, and consistent warm sunshine. Continue Reading
A Third of Realtors® Assisted Their Clients With Buying or Selling a Property That Had “Green” Features in the Past Year
Photo from Pixabay Key Highlights Sixty-five percent of Realtors® said promoting energy efficiency in listings was valuable.More than a third of respondents – 36% – reported that their multiple listing service had green data fields.Over half of Realtors® said their clients were interested in Continue Reading
Rx for Growth and Security
Photograph from Pexels Article By Bruce Kellogg The Next Level? How many times have you heard a “guru”, or “trainer”, offer to help you take your real estate business “to the next level”? Most of the time they are referring to investing skills, but there is a whole other area which they do not Continue Reading
Solar is Disrupting Real Estate – Learn How Investors/Brokers Can Benefit Now
Investors, it's time to take our Powur back. How will we take our Powur back? Powur delivers home-energy solutions that save residents, investors, builders money and lower their carbon footprint. Homeowners have had a variety of reasons why they've switched from traditional to solar energy. Continue Reading
How the Opening Back up of the Economy should affect Private Lending
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay By Edward Brown When the COVID-19 pandemic first hit the United States in March 2020, it was anybody’s guess as to how the private lending market would be affected. At first glance, one would presume that loan demand would have been negatively affected due to Continue Reading
