Legislation aimed at deterring “property speculation and flipping in vulnerable neighborhoods” in New York City begs the question: Just how prevalent and harmful is home flipping in the five boroughs that would be impacted by the policy change? An Auction.com analysis of public record data from ATTOM Data Solutions shows home flipping in the five [...]
Sure, interest rates are low, but there are still troubling economic indicators you should be paying attention to. We all saw the housing market pick up strength this year, thanks to lower interest rates. Most prognosticators believe housing will maintain its strength through the winter and well into 2020. Mortgage rates are lower than last [...]
Kansas City, Missouri - January 16, 2020 – The American Association of Private Lenders (AAPL) and Wall Street housing research firm, Zelman & Associates, are partnering to launch the private lending industry’s first and only benchmark data survey. The quarterly survey – which opens for responses in April – will gather key data on [...]
Demographic trends should generally support strong single-family rental demand into the future and provide opportunities. The single-family rental (SFR) market appears poised for continued growth, even amid concerns about a weakening economy and the potential for a market correction as early as 2020, or possibly even in 2021. As of September 2019, the Federal Reserve [...]
What the mixed economic signals mean for commercial real estate Despite a couple of developments to the contrary, certain economic indicators suggest the U.S. may be at the later stage of an economic cycle. How is that possible when there’s been a double-digit return in the U.S. stock market in first quarter 2019 and with [...]
Long-term rentals offer investors an attractive opportunity. House flippers have had a long and profitable run during the current real estate cycle. But as home prices moderate, real estate investors and private lenders are increasingly turning their attention to long-term rentals, where opportunities appear to be as strong as ever. Rent prices for single-family rental [...]
Surprise! After talk of a downturn, a housing and mortgage rally emerges. After much recent talk about a slowdown in the housing and mortgage markets, the residential real estate industry appears to have done an about-face. Much of the change has been attributed to the Federal Reserve’s announcement in mid-March that it won’t raise short-term [...]
Here’s how to prepare for the next downturn. Although nobody can predict the exact timing, we will likely experience another market correction, and housing likely will be impacted. As the housing market begins to cool, high single-digit price gains probably won’t be in the cards for most communities in 2019. Still, much of the country [...]
Even in a downturn, opportunities exist for private lenders. The nation’s longest economic expansion in history is still underway, but eventually all good things must come to an end. When exactly the expansion will turn into a contraction is still anyone’s guess, but the housing and private lending markets are sure to be impacted when [...]
After the city lost big during the economic downturn, experts are now betting on sustainable growth. Las Vegas and southern Nevada, after suffering some of the worst of the Great Recession, are experiencing undeniable economic growth. It’s a welcome change from a few years ago, when the city’s unemployment hit 15 percent, home values plummeted, [...]
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