The Housing Stalemate and Why Prices Will Continue Going Down: A California...
The housing market is facing conflicting headwinds like a dog being asked to “come here” from both owners at opposite sides of the room and reading through the countless market indicators can drive you...
View ArticleUnited States of Renters (USR): Single Family Rental Home Growth Rate up 45...
This past weekend I was looking at communities across the United States that are now being built to house renters. So why is that even worth mentioning? Rentals are always part of the housing mix...
View ArticleMom and pop landlord nation: Small time investors pick up the slack left by...
The bread and butter of any healthy housing market is having a good amount of first time home buyers. That is what drives new home building and also allows for the homeownership rate to go up. Most...
View ArticleAll cash buyers dominate Florida and Midwest: The significant number of all...
There has been little discussion in 2016 regarding the volume of all cash buyers. We have grown accustomed to anomalies in the housing market. Rapid dips and jumps in prices are now assumed to be a...
View ArticleNearly half of the homes purchased in major cities in Florida are all cash...
When it comes to all cash buying people usually think of select housing markets in expensive cities. While this is true in places like San Francisco or San Marino, there are currently some lower...
View ArticleCommercial real estate boom: Commercial real estate values up nearly 100...
There seems to be a heavy rush into everything real estate. This is to be expected in a low interest rate environment where the market is encouraging dramatic credit borrowing. According to the Case...
View ArticleCrowd funding the real estate bubble: Looking to participate in a San...
Investors have been the rocket fuel of the housing market. Starting in 2014 however big money started exiting the market in a methodical fashion. Now, the large investment money is coming from...
View ArticleThe attack of the smallest homes in Los Angeles: Trying to ride the mania...
Whenever you read dry economic articles on housing that attempt to justify high home prices there is always the fascinating lack of pictures. As they say, a picture is worth a 1,000 words and in the...
View ArticleAre foreign buyers driving up the price of real estate? A new record in...
Foreign buyers are a big part of the US real estate game. I’m surprised that some people downplay this because on aggregate, foreign purchases of US real estate do make up a small portion of total...
View ArticleSouthern California takes the trophy for most overvalued real estate in the...
You might think that the Bay Area is home to the most inflated real estate in the US but being “over priced” is also relative to local area incomes. The army of tech professionals in the Bay Area...
View ArticleWhy Millennials are stuck living at home with parents: The impact on first...
The Federal Reserve conducted a study on Millennials and tried to ascertain why so many of them are living at home. Is it too much student debt? Lower incomes? Or is it that home prices are simply...
View ArticleLet the serfs pay their rent: Rental income held steady from 2000 to 2007 but...
Being a landlord is no easy task. In the long run owning a rental property can be a nice addition to your investment portfolio but there is nothing sexy about it. Many small time landlords only start...
View ArticleThe steady decline of all cash buyers: Investors pulling back but all cash...
Never in the history of U.S. home sales have we had institutional investors so involved in the single family home market. In many areas once the bubble popped, we had big and small investors...
View ArticleBig money investors pull out of California dramatically: Large purchases from...
Follow the big money has been an adage on Wall Street for many decades. If that philosophy holds true for real estate as well, big money investors are signaling something regarding California real...
View ArticleSo you think you can flip? Proliferation of house flipping and rehab shows...
It is amazing to see the resurgence of housing flipping and rehab centered shows on cable TV. The shows glamorize the lifestyle of flipping forgetting how many people got burned in the previous...
View ArticleThe real estate gamble in Las Vegas: Year-over-year inventory up 51 percent...
If you really want to see the impact of cash buyers pulling out of a market look no further than Las Vegas. Las Vegas was the poster child of real estate mania and many California home owners...
View ArticleAre we running out of rental housing? Forget about pent up demand for buying...
One often hidden story in the housing market is the boring rental market. Sure, we talk about investors and regular home buyers but there is rarely any deep analysis regarding renters in the...
View ArticleUnited States of Cash Sales: A feudal changing of the guard. 58 percent of...
The old adage that cash is king seems to be the new mantra for real estate in a post housing crash world. Investors continue to dominate the housing market out maneuvering house horny buyers that...
View ArticleApartment nation: Multi-unit housing starts up 416 percent from 2010 low....
There is a simple bet to take if you believe housing is going to lead this nation into a next wave of prosperity. Take a bet on home builders. The argument is that the U.S. population continues to...
View ArticleThe rising inequality in the global feudal housing market: Big money...
The traditional home buyer is tapped out. You have a massive number of young adults living at home with very little financial means for purchasing a home. It is understandable that after a recession,...
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