As mortgage rates rise, homebuilder sentiment slips, and home sales weaken, analysts expected housing permits and starts to fall MoM in March but, thanks in part to downward revisions for Feb’s data, Housing Starts surprised with a +0.3% MoM rise (vs -1.6% MoM exp) and Permits up 0.4% MoM (vs -2.4% MoM exp)…
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Rental prices for single-family homes have skyrocketed to record levels across the U.S., increasing to an average of 7.8 percent in 2021. Apartment rents are up too.
Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk posted in a Twitter thread on Monday advising followers to own “physical things” when inflation is high. In the tweet, Musk said “As a general principle, for those looking for advice from this thread, it is generally better to own physical things like a home or stock in companies you think make good products, than dollars when inflation is high.
Apartments. They’re everywhere … and in the world of real estate they are hot, hot, hot! This niche provides economies of scale, lots of cash flow, great tax breaks, and many different options for financing. But if you’re coming from single family homes, making the leap into a bigger building can be intimidating at first
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The Realty Doctors – Gillen & Associates – Jean Gillen Investment property specialists who KNOW the Central Florida market … and want to share their expertise with you! For nearly 30 years, Jean Gillen has been helping investors cash in on Central Florida! She knows this market like the back of her hand. The Real
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Pension Problems Piling Up … Anyone paying attention knows the world is facing a global pension crisis. And if you don’t think it will affect you … think again. Consider this report recently issued by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago … How Should the State of Illinois Pay for Its Unfunded Pension Liability? The
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Warren Buffet. Also known as the Oracle of Omaha, this investing heavyweight spends a lot of his time doing one particular thing. It’s not scoping out new investments. Not chatting with folks in the investment industry. Not attending board meetings … although we bet he does spend a bit of time doing all of those
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Finding a property can sometimes be the HARDEST part of getting a deal. With an influx of real estate investors flooding the market, there’s less inventory available and ALSO lower returns. Think about it … When more people are interested, you have to pay more to acquire a property. That means your returns go down.
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We’ve talked many times about the baby boomers. While many are homeowners and will remain so in retirement, there’s a chunk who will either remain or become renters. In a 70 million person demographic, a “chunk” can be a sizable market! And when you’re building any kind of a business, rental real estate or otherwise,
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