Help, advice and practical how-to-guides for real estate investors
The standard advice for first-time rental investors sounds sensible: start small, buy one property, get your footing, then grow. But some experienced investors and the agents who work with them argue that single-property ownership is actually the riskiest way to enter the rental market, not the safest. Shirley Weems, a Realtor with Waterman Real Estate, ...
Small investors eyeing the northern Indianapolis suburbs in 2026 are often looking for the wrong opportunity. The search for a quick flip, buy distressed, renovate, sell at a profit, runs into a market where prices are already strong and undervalued properties are scarce. What the data and experienced observers on the ground suggest is that ...
In the market for self-employed borrowers, the best rate isn’t always what wins the loan. Often, it’s whichever lender gets there first. When a broker is working with a freelancer, a small business owner, or a real estate investor seeking a mortgage, that borrower’s loan application often goes out to several lenders at once. In ...
The short-term rental boom that swept southwest Florida during the pandemic years is unwinding, and the exit is not clean. According to Michael Byrd, a realtor with Realty One Group MVP, a convergence of municipal restrictions, rising platform fees, and oversupply has left a significant cohort of Airbnb investors unable to service their debt, and ...
The investment case for beachfront condos on Marco Island looks compelling on the surface: a resort island where the seasonal population swells from 17,000 to over 60,000 people, a chronic shortage of hotel inventory, and strong demand from visitors seeking Gulf views and beach access. But a significant portion of the condo inventory on the ...
Landlords across New Jersey who have been collecting steady rent increases for years are about to face a new kind of competition, and it is not coming from other landlords. It is coming from state law. A wave of new apartment construction is hitting markets like Princeton and Mercer County, driven not by developer enthusiasm ...
Most people thinking about Orlando real estate are focused on the suburbs, the master-planned communities, the new construction corridors, the areas that boomed when remote workers flooded in from the Northeast. Downtown Orlando has largely been left out of that conversation. The urban core has struggled, and investors have been reluctant to commit capital to ...
Rent prices and vacancy rates are not supposed to move in the same direction at the same time. When a market softens, rents typically fall. When demand is strong, vacancies shrink. But for much of 2024, property managers in Upstate South Carolina were watching both numbers climb together, a contradiction that left landlords confused and ...
Most people who own a rental property in a market where prices have tripled face the same question: Is it time to sell? In Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey, where the average sale price has climbed from roughly $140,000 before the pandemic to around $450,000 today, that question is coming up constantly. What experienced local ...
Investors looking at upstate New York’s Catskill area as an alternative to the expensive downstate market are arriving with one set of assumptions and finding a different set of facts. The pitch makes sense on paper, lower prices, lower taxes, proximity to New York City. But agents working the market say the gap between what ...
Owning a rental property in Miami sounds like a dream: warm weather, strong demand, and a city that keeps growing. For many investors, it has delivered. But property managers working in the market right now see something that doesn’t always make it into the sales pitch: the math has gotten tighter, and the surprises hit ...
AI is reshaping deal sourcing, property management, and investment decisions in commercial real estate. In real estate and private investing, it’s already reshaping how deals get found, how properties get managed, and how investors decide where to put their money. Chris Salerno, Founder and CEO of QC Capital Group, oversees roughly $300 million in commercial ...
When people think about investing in Florida real estate, they usually picture beachfront condos or luxury vacation rentals. But one veteran agent in Southwest Florida says the real opportunity right now looks far less glamorous and far more reliable. Rick Stannard, a Realtor with Realty Hub in Southwest Florida, has been buying and selling real ...
Brooklyn has had quite a run. Neighborhoods that were considered overlooked a decade ago, Bed-Stuy, Crown Heights, Bushwick, have seen townhouse prices jump from $1 million to $2 million to $3 million to $5 million. Sunset Park quietly became one of the borough’s better values. And during COVID, buyers flooded in looking for space, backyards, ...
Most investors who buy rental property with a partner focus on the obvious questions: who owns what percentage, who manages the property, and who gets the income. What few consider is what happens when a partner’s financial or legal troubles attach directly to the shared asset, potentially costing both owners the property itself. Randy Hughes, ...
