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Real estate investors often focus on market timing and interest rates. However, Kerie Choiniere, a real estate agent with Venture Real Estate and an active investor in distressed properties, says the most expensive mistakes usually result from inadequate property inspection and assessment before purchase. Choiniere’s own recent experience highlights the risk. She bought a property in ...
Long Island landlords face a significant financial risk: eviction timelines in New York can extend from 12 to 18 months. During that period, property owners may receive no rental income while continuing to pay mortgage obligations, legal fees, and repair costs. Jeffrey Memisha, a licensed sales associate at Realty Advisors Inc., says New York’s tenant-favorable ...
Investor visa qualifications are now a major factor in property purchases in Panama. This trend has created a buyer segment that operates outside traditional real estate norms, says Jeffrey Barton, Managing Director of Punta Pacifica Realty. Panama’s real estate market is seeing more buyers motivated by securing legal residency than by rental income or long-term ...
The restoration of 100% bonus depreciation through 2029 has triggered a surge of out-of-state investors buying Florida short-term rentals without visiting them. This trend is changing buyer profiles and motivations in Gulf Coast markets. The Invisible Buyer Wave Florida’s short-term rental market is attracting investors who buy properties without visiting them. These buyers are motivated ...
For the past five years, Westchester and Yonkers have become the next step for New York City residents who can no longer afford Manhattan or the outer boroughs. Data supports this story: prices in Yonkers have climbed 6 to 11 percent year over year, with some neighborhoods appreciating even faster. However, beneath these headline numbers ...
Just a few years ago, Spartanburg, South Carolina, was often dismissed by real estate professionals as too undeveloped and too distant from Greenville’s activity to attract serious growth. Today, that perception has changed. Land prices are rising in the area, national and local builders are buying up property, and the city has emerged as the ...
Within a 100-mile stretch of Florida’s Gulf Coast, rules for short-term rentals vary so widely that identical properties can operate legally in one county and be banned in the next, leaving investment outcomes dependent on local regulations rather than property quality. The Regulatory Patchwork Florida’s short-term rental market is divided by local regulations that can ...
Anyone considering buying or selling property in Texas is entering a market that looks very different from how it did just a few years ago. Downtown office towers in Houston are sitting vacant and being considered for apartment conversions, large-scale data center projects are driving up demand for land near power infrastructure in Houston and ...
After a difficult 2023, the commercial real estate lending market has rebounded. Lenders are actively competing for deals again, and transaction volume has surged. However, according to Brandon Chicotsky, Managing Principal at God Bless Retirement, this recovery has come with a lasting change in how assets are evaluated and financed. Chicotsky describes the shift simply: ...
After years of momentum-driven buying, investor behavior in Connecticut’s residential real estate market has changed dramatically. Buyers who once purchased properties sight unseen are now walking away from deals that fail to meet financial criteria, according to Lynn LaForme, a realtor at Showcase Realty who specializes in multifamily properties in the Waterbury area. During the ...
As hundreds of new single-family homes are built each month in the Wilmington area, many landlords are purchasing properties based on personal preference rather than actual rental market data, according to Catherine Huffman, co-owner of Keyrenter Wilmington. This disconnect is leading to a growing number of underperforming rentals, with more vacancies and lower rents than ...
As most of the residential real estate market cools from pandemic-era highs, one segment is moving at a surprising pace: small investment properties. According to Jillian Kemmerer, owner and associate broker at Luxe Homes Real Estate LLC in Scranton, Pennsylvania, duplexes and triplexes are attracting buyers far faster than traditional single-family homes. “If anything is ...
Rising utility costs are eroding rental property returns in ways many investors overlook, according to Jillian Kemmerer, who manages more than 400 rental properties at Luxe Homes Real Estate LLC. “Utility costs are skyrocketing,” Kemmerer says. “And if the landlords have to absorb those costs, there’s really no way to mitigate that.” This pressure is ...
The Dallas-Fort Worth rental market, long seen as attractive to investors, is showing signs of a cash-flow crisis. Despite steady buyer interest and continued investment in rental acquisitions, many investors report that their properties are not generating the income they expected. Justin Nimergood, a real estate advisor with Nimergood Real Estate in partnership with Epique ...
Private lenders with in-house construction management teams are taking market share from regional banks by processing construction draws up to 10 times faster, according to David Hada, CFO of Ascent Developer Solutions. As regional banks pull back lending and face operational bottlenecks, private lenders like Ascent are using real-time project oversight and embedded expertise to ...
