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Investors looking at affordable properties in Chicago’s south suburbs are running into an obstacle that does not show up in any listing: several villages have rewritten their rental standards in ways that effectively bar new investors from renting out properties within village limits, according to Aaron Gaines, a Realtor with Keller Williams Preferred Realty who ...
A growing acquisition strategy among small real estate investors in Texas involves taking over someone else’s mortgage payment without ever assuming the loan itself. It is called a “subject-to” purchase, and insurance professionals who work with these investors say the financial exposure on both sides – for the original homeowner and the new investor – ...
Banks price foreclosure homes to attract owner-occupants, but most of those homes cannot pass the appraisals that owner-occupants need to get a mortgage. The result, according to Janet Knopp, Principal Broker / Agent at Capital Region Preferred Properties LLC, is a market where REO properties sit in limbo, wanted by two buyer types but workable ...
The instinct for most real estate investors is to follow the crowd, buy where population is growing, where demand is rising, where prices are climbing. On Long Island, that instinct may be exactly wrong. The areas gaining residents have already priced in the demand, while areas losing population may offer entry points that generate better ...
By September 28, 2026, Florida must submit its recommended list of Opportunity Zone census tracts to the U.S. Treasury, according to Frances Kern Mennone, Managing Director of Industry Consultants & Advisors at FBT Gibbons, an AmLaw 200 law firm with offices in Cincinnati and Naples. Once finalized, the map stays fixed for a full decade. ...
The pandemic-era suburban boom that pushed buyers into the far reaches of the Dallas-Fort Worth metro is unwinding. Properties in outer markets are struggling to attract buyers while demand reconcentrates closer to established urban nodes, according to Yaron Yashar, a Realtor at Fathom Realty who works primarily in the north DFW corridor. For investors who ...
Jersey City’s downtown condo market reports a three-month absorption rate, but according to Patrick Southern, Team Leader at SERHANT (Properties by Southern), roughly one-third of that inventory cannot compete with new construction – leaving an effective supply closer to two months for buyers seeking quality units. The Three-Month Number Overstates What’s Available A three-month absorption ...
Markets that experienced extreme pandemic-era appreciation are not snapping back to equilibrium. In Montgomery County, Texas, the reset is structural, slow-moving, and widely misunderstood by investors expecting a quick rebound. The Scale of the Problem When real estate markets began softening in 2023, many observers framed it as a temporary cooling period before the next ...
When investors evaluate an industrial property, they typically see one rent figure attached to one building. The yard – the paved or unpaved land surrounding that building – gets bundled into the deal as though it were incidental. At firms specializing in industrial outdoor storage, analysts argue this is a mispricing. The land itself generates ...
When property taxes rise sharply in a market where rents cannot keep pace, landlords do not simply absorb the cost. They sell. In Montgomery County, Texas, that pattern is accelerating. It is creating a ripple effect: renters are displaced, the market floods with additional inventory, and buyers gain leverage. Maria Borrego, a Realtor with 20 ...
Short-term rentals made small-scale landlording look easy for years. Buy a house, list it on Airbnb, collect nightly rates that dwarf a traditional lease payment. But in Houston, experienced brokers are now steering investor clients away from that model entirely, and toward a strategy called co-sharing that trades flashy nightly rates for something harder to ...
The properties generating the strongest cash flow in South Florida are not the ones most investors notice first. Polished Class A buildings, waterfront luxury units, and newly built complexes attract attention but compress returns. Experienced investors working in Miami-Dade and Broward County are instead buying mobile home parks, working-class rental portfolios, and properties in neighborhoods ...
The fix-and-flip model has long attracted small investors who want a tangible, short-cycle return. But in lower Westchester County, the conditions that once made flipping viable are eroding. Rising labor costs, expensive materials, and drawn-out project timelines are compressing the margins that used to make these deals worthwhile. Frank Palombo, a Realtor with Howard Hanna ...
A home listed at $350,000 in Bakersfield, California, looks like a bargain compared to what the same money buys in Los Angeles or the Bay Area. But out-of-town investors keep making the same mistake: they chase the purchase price and ignore whether the rental income can actually service the debt. Ernesto Osuna, Broker/Owner of D ...
For more than two years, market watchers in the greater Houston area have been bracing for a surge of foreclosures. The logic seemed sound: pandemic-era moratoriums expired, interest rates jumped, and homeowners who stretched too thin would inevitably fall behind. But the wave hasn’t arrived – at least not in the form anyone predicted. What’s ...
