As the housing market transitions, here’s what real estate investors can expect—and how they can adjust. Real estate investing can be profitable in any market, but successful investing strategies often vary widely depending on broader market conditions. As the housing market transitions quickly from frenzy to flatline, here’s what real estate investors can expect and [...]
Sixty-eight percent of renovated foreclosure resales during the pandemic went to owner-occupants. Foreclosure properties renovated and resold by real estate investors supplied an estimated 118,000 affordably priced homes to owner-occupants in the last two years, according to an analysis of proprietary data from Auction.com and public record data from ATTOM Data Solutions. The 118,000 renovated [...]
That’s good news for first-time homebuyers. Foreclosures are gradually returning closer to pre‑pandemic levels in 2022. This is good news for many first-time homebuyers priced out of the fever dream that was the pandemic housing market. Why? Because most of those foreclosures will be renovated and resold to owner‑occupants at affordable price points. “We love [...]
Here’s a look at markets with the most overinflated home prices and those with the biggest backlogs of distress. A home price slowdown and possibly even a correction is a growing risk facing U.S. housing markets for the second half of 2022. Rising inflation is forcing the Federal Reserve to implement contractionary monetary policy that [...]
Housing supply gradually began to increase in the second half of 2021, both in the larger retail market and in the narrower distressed property market—as predicted in a July 2021 article in this publication. The inventory of existing homes for sale increased to an 11-month high of 1.3 million in July 2021 and remained near [...]
Most distressed sales are going to smaller-volume buyers and, increasingly, owner-occupants. Large-volume homebuyers ramped up property acquisitions in the first half of 2021, but these are not your father’s institutional buyers. Unlike a decade ago, when Wall Street-backed hedge funds and other institutional investors swooped into the housing market and scooped up hundreds of thousands [...]
Supply influx converging with affordability-weakened demand would dampen price appreciation. An imbalance between low supply and high demand has pushed U.S. home prices up by double-digit percentages for nine consecutive months, capped by a record 19% increase in April. The April existing home sales report from the National Association of Realtors (NAR) shows 1.16 million [...]
Current home flippers infuse the housing market with quality, affordable inventory. Proposed legislation in New York could make it harder for real estate investors to finance real estate renovation projects, which could further limit the supply of affordable housing inventory in the state, according to an analysis of home flipping data from the last two [...]
· Report also shows online auctions reduce REO holding times 52 percent · 71 percent owner-occupancy for resales of third-party foreclosure sales Irvine, Calif. — March 31, 2021 — Auction.com, the nation’s leading distressed real estate marketplace, today released its 2021 Seller Strategy Report, which identifies distressed disposition strategies that yield better outcomes for mortgage [...]
Renovate-and-resell profits have soared during the pandemic, but does that make it a good time to flip? When the COVID-19 pandemic was declared in March, Chicago-based investor Michael Hallman scrambled to mitigate any home flipping losses that might result from the shock to the economy and housing market. “I’ve got about 10 properties right now [...]
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