Real Estate Investing News – Wholesale Investment Properties

Top 10 Real Estate Markets In 2016

Kevin Morice — Fri, 04 Dec 2015 15:11:08 +0000

Well, it’s already the end of 2015. Seems like the year just started. But as this year comes to a close it is time to start thinking about your investment strategies for the coming year of 2016.

According to Realtor.com, 2016 is going to be another great year for the real estate market in the Atlanta area. In fact, Atlanta made the top 5! Atlanta has been a hot market and continues to be a hot market. Some of the factors for this is a steady and growing job market, as well as the cost of living lower than some other areas of the country including the prices of homes.

This is great news for investors. Of course this is great news for investors that fix and flip for a retail sale, but also for the buy and hold investors. Not all of the people moving to Atlanta will find a home right away, or even be able to afford a home when they first move here because they need to sell their property somewhere else in the country. This means they will end up renting until they are able or find that perfect home in the area that they want.

Here is a snippet from the article –

Smoke and his team took past trends and seasonal variations of housing and economic data for the 100 largest markets in the country and stuck them into a time machine—oops, we mean a statistical model that predicts future values for home sales and prices. Then they identified the markets whose forecasted growth was equal to or better than the U.S. average. The resulting top 10 list is of the real estate markets that look the most bullish for the coming year. Get ready for a few surprises!

Many of the markets that have consistently made our “hot list” because of high demand from buyers and quick sales didn’t make the cut for 2016, because they are predicted to see slower price appreciation and even declining sales. Notably, they include the greater metro areas of San Francisco, Denver, and Dallas.

In addition, each of the markets on the list is in high demand, with 60% more listing page views than the U.S. overall and inventory that sells 16 days faster than the U.S. average. Surging demand in each market can be attributed to growing household formation, a prosperous job market, and low unemployment rates as well as large populations of key demographics. Older millennials (25 to 34 years old), younger Gen Xers (35 to 44 years old), and retirees (65 to 74 years old) will be driving home sales in 2016.

Read the full article here: http://www.realtor.com/news/trends/top-10-real-estate-markets-to-watch-in-2016

Of course being able to profit from this trend isn’t as easy as just looking at the homes that are listed on the MLS to find fix and flip properties or to turn into rentals. Most of the homes listed are at the high end of retail, which means there is no room for a retail flip. Investors need a place to turn to find properties. We are the solution! If you are looking for a constant stream of great off market properties here in the Atlanta area be sure and check out our site of available investment properties at ThisCheapHouse.com.

Great Time For Investment Rental Properties

Kevin Morice — Tue, 03 Nov 2015 16:49:43 +0000

It is a great time to be a land lord and also to be expanding your rental property portfolio. Rents are on the rise nation wide and there seems to be a shift from home ownership to renters.

Investing in rental properties has always been a fantastic way to create wealth, especially generational wealth for your family. Even when you take into account the crash of ’07-’09, investors that had rental homes really only saw losses on paper. In many cases these properties are back to what they were valued at before the crash, if not higher, depending on what part of the country the property is in.

Because of this, it can be argued that buying investment properties for rentals is safer than buying properties for fix and flip for a retail sale. There are investors that warn of another bubble, and if it happens while you are in the middle of a fix and flip, then you could suffer some great losses. While on the other hand, if you own rentals, you just keep renting the properties out and collect rent. Historically, the housing market always comes back, and when it does, that is when you can liquidate an investment property if you should so desire.

We found this great article and interview of Barry Sternlicht, CEO of Starwood Capital from CNBC and though we would share it. And if you are an investor looking for rentals in and around Atlanta check out our site, ThisCheapHouse.com for investment properties that are deeply discounted.

This is the next big property investment

Rent hikes are dogging tenants, but big money investors say the season of love for residential, multi-family rental properties is only getting started.

“Property is in a sweet spot, slow (economic) growth is good for us,” Barry Sternlicht, chairman and chief executive of Starwood Capital, told CNBC in an exclusive interview. “It doesn’t induce new supply and rents are going up, particularly in the U.S.”

Starwood Capital’s lyrics match its tune, with the company making big bets on multi-family properties — or properties designed to house multiple families in separate units, such as apartment buildings, duplexes and townhomes. In late October, Starwood teamed up with the Milestone Apartments REIT to buy the Landmark Apartment Trust in an all-cash $1.9 billion deal, giving the partners control of 78 apartment developments in eight U.S. states. Starwood will take 63 of the developments and Milestone the remaining 15.

Read the full article here: http://www.cnbc.com/2015/11/02/starwood-capital-ceo-this-is-the-next-big-property-investment.html

Real Estate News And Investing Tips

Kevin Morice — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 15:42:27 +0000

Welcome to our website – and thanks for stopping by!

If you are a real estate investor, seasoned or newbie, hopefully you have been to our site already and have signed up for our “Email Alerts” list to be notified of when we have new available properties in Georgia. If not, go ahead and sign up – it’s free and we have some of the best off-market investment properties available throughout the North GA area!

On to the headline of this post – RE News and Investing Tips…. We are going to start posting recent news for the world of Real Estate investing as well as tips to help you make money – or more money with your RE business, as well as tips on how to possibly make your business run more smoothly.

RE News – The real estate market can be fast paced as far as what markets are trending, and also very different from one part of the country compared to another. As many seasoned investors know, it can even change from one street to the next! We will not only bring you news about what is happening in the North GA market, but news for other markets around the county, maybe even news from around the world. Thanks to today’s technology and along with the internet, today’s savvy real estate investor is no longer bound to investing only in their “back yard”, and are able to make their portfolio more diverse by investing in other areas of the country.

RE Tips – There is not one real estate investor in the world that knows everything there is to know about RE investing. The best real estate investors are always learning better ways to find more deals and capitalize on the deals that they currently have. We will be posting about our investing strategies as well as things that have made our business more successful and tips on how to make more money on each real estate transaction. We will also post articles from other investors that we find interesting and that can be helpful in your endeavor as an investor.

So make sure and bookmark our site, or subscribe to this RSS Feed – http://www.ThisCheapHouse.com/Feed/News with your favorite rss reader so that you can stay up to date on the latest trends in the wonderful world of real estate investing!