Boots-on-the-Ground Market Insights: Agriculture With an increasing interest investors are looking to offshore options… Russell Gray, co-host of The Real Estate Guys™ Radio Show, meets with Rachel Jensen from ECI Developments to hear all about the wonderful world of offshore agriculture and the ever growing industry of teakwood. Learn what’s happening in regards to: Lumber, …
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Well, hello … 2020! It’s a new year and a new decade … and it’s a TERRIFIC time to talk about the top trends in real estate investing. Many factors are affecting the path real estate is heading down this year … demographics, economics, technology, politics, energy, and interest rates. So sit back and take …
Even if you’re a die-hard cash flow investor … more intent on collecting properties than flipping them … it’s still important to pay attention to market cycles. After all, though you might not plan to “sell high”, it’s sure nice to “buy low”. Besides, “buy and hold” doesn’t mean you’re not harvesting equity when conditions are …
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Buying an income producing property is an investment in the underlying economy. That’s REALLY where the income originates. That’s why we put so much emphasis on market analysis. Investors who focus exclusively on deal analysis (crunching the numbers on the property) but fail to underwrite the market sometimes end up in a mess. The context of a deal is …
Real estate investors tend to like low interest rates. After all, low rates mean lower payments for the same size mortgage … or a bigger mortgage for the same payments. Nice. The current Wizard of Rates is Fed chair Jerome Powell. And he just showed up on 60 Minutes and told everyone … “‘We don’t …
While most Americans are fixated on the brouhaha surrounding the government shutdown, we’re thinking about something even MORE slimy … Oil. Long time followers know we’ve been watching oil for quite a while … and for a variety of reasons over and above the amazing tax breaks. Oil and energy have a substantial impact on the …
One reason we write is because very little mainstream financial commentary addresses the unique needs of real estate investors. Most financial pundits think of real estate merely in terms of home prices, home builder stocks, and maybe real estate investment trusts (REITs). Their preferred investment strategy is buy-low-sell-high … usually based on divining things wholly outside …
We’re taking a break from our relentless preparation for the upcoming Future of Money and Wealth conference to focus on one our favorite subjects … Equity. According to a recent report by CoreLogic, last year’s increase in America’s home equity wealth was the largest in four years. In 2017, the national CoreLogic Home Price Index rose by more than …
It’s been said the only thing certain in life is death and taxes. Of course, properly structured and well-advised real estate investors can usually mitigate most of their taxes. Meanwhile, before people die, they live. Along the way, they get older. And as people age, their needs change … … and because entrepreneurship is about …
One of the age-old adages of real estate investing is to invest in the path of progress. Or as hockey legend Wayne Gretzky says … skate to where the puck is going. It’s just a lot easier when you’re riding a wave of demand … especially if you can find a substantial supply and demand imbalance. …