The investor trade is crowded: Median price for homes purchased with cash...
Investor demand for housing is largely responsible for the feeding frenzy in real estate over the last couple of years. Yet this unrelenting demand is unsustainable and it looks like cracks are...
View ArticleLandlord nation: Since 2007 the US has added over 2,000,000 renter households...
After scouring the newly released Census data many things stood out but one of them continues to reflect a growing disconnect in housing. The US is adding many more renter households. This of course...
View ArticleGains to the Real Estate Lords: Since 2009 Landlord income up a stunning 85...
The recovery in real estate has largely gone to big institutional players. Recent data from the US Commerce Department shows that rental income grew the fastest compared to other asset classes since...
View ArticleChinese heavily focused on US real estate. How big of an impact are Chinese...
There is a heavy demand from abroad for US real estate. China as you know is now solidly the second largest economy in the world and with it is wielding heavy economic power. Wealthy families are...
View ArticleAll cash buyers slowly pulling back in California real estate: What happens...
The cash buying and investor segment of the market has been the major catalyst for the current run in real estate. Record low inventory coupled by low rates brought on one of the best year-over-year...
View ArticleThe plague of all-cash buyers: Massive market distortions being created by...
A plague on both of your houses. Unless of course, you are buying a few extra homes as investments and then the market is conveniently setup for you. The Fed has created a housing market dominated by...
View ArticleWhere did all the single family homes go? Half of foreclosed homes still...
The real estate market has slim pickings for traditional buyers. Funny thing that we have to use the “traditional” preface since the market is overrun with a hoard of investors. I am seeing this with...
View ArticleThe bubble that is California: A flood of rentals in lower priced markets,...
California can be viewed as a microcosm of what is occurring across the United States. Few markets are propped up by a smaller affluent population while most, are pushed outward or to rentals as...
View ArticleCash investors altering psychology of real estate market: Can the regular...
Investor buying has pushed the real estate market into uncharted territory. Starting in 2008 after the crash in home values, investors at first stepped in slowly and now they represent a dramatic...
View ArticleInvestor exhaustion with investment properties hits: Blackstone’s acquisition...
Existing home sales had another weak month and the blame continues to be on the notorious polar vortex. On the other hand, California is in a record drought and we are in an endless summer yet sales...
View ArticleWhat happened to the traditional home buyer? California has the highest...
Existing home sales continue to operate in an anemic range. The latest existing home sales figures show that sales volume is back to where it was in July of 2012. A large part of this is due to...
View ArticleWhat will be the impact of cash investors slowing purchases in California?...
The market in California is starting to splinter off into two distinct segments. First, in lower priced areas the pullback of investors has caused inventory to steadily rise. In places like the Inland...
View ArticleThe battle between traditional buyers and cash buyers: Cash buyers still make...
People adapt very quickly to new circumstances. Today, many are coming to terms that the housing market is dominated by investors. Existing home sales are running at a pathetic pace now that investors...
View ArticleCash buyers reach record level of all home purchases at over 42 percent: 80...
So you still want to make the argument that cash buying is a small portion of the market? The latest sales data shows that cash buyers made up a record 42.7 percent of all sales in the first quarter...
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,...
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 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 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 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 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...
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