In this article The real estate market (as well as about every other part of the economy) has been quite difficult to gauge since COVID-19 arrived in April 2020, to say the absolute least. The stock market collapsed and then had a V-shaped recovery before sliding back and then climbing again. Real estate prices shot
In this article One disadvantage that entrepreneurs and “small-time” real estate investors have is that we cannot do anywhere near the amount of market research that large corporations can. Fortunately, that doesn’t mean we can’t respectfully follow their work in order to get a good idea of where the best places to invest will be.
In this article In a time when investing in real estate is as hard as it’s been in a long time, it’s easy to forget how powerful real estate can be for building wealth. No better example can be given than comparing WeWork’s legendary collapse in 2019 with McDonald’s incredible rise to become a mainstay of
In this article Several extraordinary milestones were hit recently in the real estate market that doesn’t seem to make a lick of sense when put together. For starters, the average 5-year ARM broke 8% for the first time since the mid-1990s. (And the 30-year fixed mortgage is just barely less than that, at 7.946% as of the date
In this article It’s no secret that housing has gotten extremely expensive in the United States, both in terms of buying and renting. This chart should make that clear as day: CPI: Rent of Primary Residence vs. Case-Shiller Index (2000 – 2023) – St. Louis Federal Reserve Indeed, the same trend has taken place throughout the Western world. Housing
In this article The shopping mall has been a staple of American life for what seems like forever. Our lifetimes, however, are not forever, and there was a time when malls were nothing but the figment of architect Victor Gruen’s imagination. And given the long-term trajectory of malls in the United States (and abroad), that
In this article As the old saying goes, necessity is the mother of invention. And old it is. Perhaps the earliest expression of this sentiment came some 2,400 years ago from Aesop’s fable The Crow and the Pitcher. From the invention of the wheel to facilitate travel or the steam engine to facilitate travel even better, there are
In this article It’s not just you: The cost of construction—be it on rehabs or new builds—has gone through the proverbial roof. Early in my career, I was consistently making the same mistake that just about every new real estate investor (and many seasoned ones) makes: budgeting too little for rehab. Then, after I had
In this article After the real estate crash in 2008, pretty much any sort of real property became a pariah amongst investors—institutional investors at least—for a few years. However, one of the first sectors to bounce back was student housing. Just one year after the crash (July 2009), Reuters was already noting how “investors are turning to
© Copyright 2023 | RE-INSIDER.COM, all rights reserved.