Institutional investors may be pulling back, but smaller, local investors see opportunity. There’s been some recent buzz about institutional investors pulling back on property acquisitions, but the small-volume local investors who account for the majority of investment property purchases are bullish about ramping up acquisitions in 2024 after being constrained by a lack of inventory [...]
Higher demand bodes well for the retail market and benefits sellers and distressed homeowners. Demand from local real estate investors turned a corner in early 2023 after bottoming out in late 2022, a good sign for the private lending industry and the retail housing market in the second half of the year. “The market is [...]
Nearly double the 17 percent share in 2023, buyers most bearish in the West Buyers still aggressive on acquisitions but shifting toward hold-for-rent strategy 77 percent of buyers are local community developers, owner-occupants doubled Irvine, Calif. — June 1, 2023 — Auction.com, the nation’s leading distressed real estate marketplace, today released its 2023 Buyer Insights [...]
Local community developers are less vulnerable to downturns because they add value through renovation. Led by tech- and venture capital-fueled upstarts coronated as iBuyers, home-flipping profits plummeted in the second half of 2022 as the housing market slowed to a crawl. But community-focused, low-volume investors bucked the trend by stubbornly sticking with the sustainable strategy [...]
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 [...]
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