Real Estate Investment

Recent zoning changes in Jamaica, Queens, NY have created a clear investment path for developers and institutional buyers. Some investors are now paying full market price for properties they plan to demolish and replace with five- to seven-story residential buildings. Shanie Baran, CEO and licensed real estate broker at Sovereign Realty of NY, says the ...

Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds, long major investors in London, England commercial real estate, may soon redirect capital as geopolitical and economic pressures rise at home. According to Azeemeh Zaheer, Director of Structured Finance and Capital Advisory at Colliers, decisions by funds from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, and the UAE will influence capital availability in ...

Anyone considering buying, selling, or investing in Fargo-Moorhead is entering a market that is moving quickly and in new directions. After a period of relative stability, the region’s commercial real estate landscape is seeing notable shifts in industrial leasing, office vacancy, and multifamily sales. Here are the three most significant changes shaping opportunities in the ...

Class B and C office buildings, typically older properties with fewer amenities and lower rents than premium Class A offices, are facing a widening gap between owner expectations and current financial conditions. Rising interest rates have increased the cost of capital, making acquisitions, upgrades, and repositioning strategies harder to justify. As a result, many of ...

Real estate investment performance is often determined long before construction starts or a property opens. While many developers focus on acquisitions, financing, or construction execution, the real difference between success and failure is whether a deal is properly validated before capital is committed. Early-stage assumptions about demand, cost, and performance frequently go unchecked—and those gaps ...

St. Paul’s downtown recovery strategy highlights a core reality of urban real estate. In distressed city centers, properties are never neutral. They either help drive revitalization or deepen decline, leaving little room for gradual stabilization. Traditional thinking about downtown turnarounds assumes that slow, incremental improvements and patient investment will eventually steady struggling urban cores. However, ...

Two years ago, you bought a rental property using a short-term loan, planning to refinance before it matured. At the time, this was a common strategy — property values were climbing, and banks were eager to lend. But now, with the loan coming due, the property is worth less than you expected, and your bank ...

Location and price dominate real estate discussions, but a less visible factor often decides which apartment projects move forward and which ones stall out: the amount of real, verifiable cash equity a developer puts into the deal before any loans are made. Numbers like cap rates, rent projections, and market comps matter, but they don’t ...

San Clemente, California, once a mostly local market, is now drawing a steady flow of investors and second-home buyers from Los Angeles, inland Orange County, and out of state. Recent deals include a Tustin doctor purchasing a four-unit property for part-time use while renting out the remaining units, and a Pasadena couple buying a small ...

Out-of-state investors are driving up prices for rental properties in Des Moines, Iowa, by accepting lower returns than local buyers have traditionally required. According to Scott Wendl, broker/owner of RE/MAX Precision in Des Moines, this shift is making it harder for local investors to justify purchasing duplexes, triplexes, and fourplexes at current prices. Wendl says ...

Sheila Smith Oliver, Founder and Principal Broker at Dwellverse Group, reports that Abilene, Texas, is attracting a surge of investor interest that now rivals activity in Austin and Dallas. The catalyst is not lifestyle amenities or tourism, but infrastructure. Major data center developments and long-term construction projects are fueling demand for furnished rentals among workers ...

Distressed properties requiring substantial renovation are now among the most reliable sources of meaningful returns for real estate investors in competitive suburban markets, according to Fiona Dogan, Global Real Estate Advisor at Julia B. Fee Sotheby’s International Realty in Westchester County, New York. Standard homes in these areas command premium prices, leaving little room for ...

Daven Henry, a licensed real estate specialist at LPT Realty, says Tampa’s most profitable investment opportunities are no longer in the city’s established neighborhoods. Henry points to overlooked areas near major development projects that are still under construction. His core argument: once a neighborhood’s appeal becomes obvious, the biggest gains are already gone. “You gotta ...

Private lenders are reporting a growing mismatch between how real estate investors finance acquisitions and how long they actually hold properties. Many borrowers structure deals expecting rising values to resolve leverage problems before the debt matures. This approach carries significant risk. H. Jack Miller, president and CEO of Gelt Financial, says the problem goes beyond ...

Skyrocketing insurance premiums in Florida are wiping out cash flow on rental properties that would otherwise be sound investments. John Bastidas, President and Founder of DSCR Investor Loanz, says the insurance crisis has changed the investment landscape in one of the country’s busiest real estate markets. For many investors, the numbers no longer work. They ...