Want to know the strategies top investors are using to dominate the market right now? Eddie sat down with Mark Burch of Temple View Capital to uncover the secrets behind today’s biggest opportunities. Eddie and Mark chat about how leveraging your properties can lead to exponential growth, why private lenders are collaborating (and how you [...]
What’s really happening in today’s real estate market? Is it all doom and gloom, or are there hidden opportunities waiting for you to grab? Eddie sat down with Bill Tessar, President, and CEO of CV3 Financial, to uncover the truth behind the headlines and giving you the tools to navigate this market like a pro. [...]
Or, is there still room for higher values? During most of 2020, as coronavirus cases heightened, some real estate investors were nervous, believing that after a seven-year run-up in residential real estate values, we were headed for lower prices and possibly even a bubble. Uncertainty is not good for real estate investors. COVID-19 presented lockdowns, [...]
Despite the pandemic, the U.S. housing market continues to outpace last year’s performances in new home sales, existing home sales, and housing starts. Resilient. It’s the word that keeps coming up in industry conversations with contractors, lenders, and even portfolio managers at Wall Street titans. In the face of an economy-crushing pandemic, the U.S. housing [...]
Non-bank and private lenders are beginning to dominate the mortgage landscape. The aftermath of the 2008 housing crisis shined a light on how bank lenders tried to walk a fine line funding and selling mortgages. Rather than taking the traditional route of funding loans with bank deposits, many banks used lines of credits or so-called [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Revitalization …. it’s happening in cities across the country from Atlanta to Detroit to Memphis. As reflected in census data, a diverse mix of residents are moving into urban areas, bringing new life to once neglected neighborhoods. And companies are moving back as well, in part to better appeal to young professionals. In Chicago, McDonalds [...]
Svenja Gudell is chief economist at Zillow.com. She has served in that position at Zillow since August 2015 after serving on the company’s economic research team for more than four years. Gudell holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Rochester’s Simon Graduate School of Business and previously worked with the Federal Reserve Bank [...]
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