Category Archives: Residential Real Estate

Real Estate Private Lenders

Private lenders are a critical component of the real estate investing ecosystem. Without private lenders, fix and flip and rental property investors would have a hard time growing their businesses. What is a Private Lender? A private lender is a non bank lender who provides business purpose loans to real estate investors. Private lenders, alsoContinue reading “Real Estate Private Lenders”

Survey finds 40% of real estate investors sourced their last deal off-market

A recent survey of 50 real estate investors published by OfferMarket found that off-market transactions are more common that one might expect. 20 respondents, 40%, confirmed their most recent deal was sourced off-market than on the MLS. The real estate marketplace provided the following reasoning for the higher than expected percentage of off-market transactions: realContinue reading “Survey finds 40% of real estate investors sourced their last deal off-market”

Equity Residential Taking A Beating ($EQR)

Equity Residential (ticker: EQR) reports challenging Q3 operating conditions with declines in urban rental portfolio lease rates and occupancy. Shares drop 7%, now down 46% YTD. Distribution yield currently 5.2%. Perhaps most interestingly, here is their breakdown of occupancy rates: Asset Class October 22, 2020 June 30, 2020 Suburban 95.8% 96.4% Urban 94.4% 94.7% UrbanContinue reading “Equity Residential Taking A Beating ($EQR)”

Dion McNeeley: Achieving Financial Independence Through Real Estate

You can do this.  Flip your thinking. Saving money on coffee every day doesn’t add up as fast as eliminating your largest expense. Housing costs.  I was 40. A single dad with three kids. Inherited tons of debt (89k) in the divorce I didn’t even know existed.  I was tired of losing income to thingsContinue reading “Dion McNeeley: Achieving Financial Independence Through Real Estate”

Are Residential REITs Undervalued?

Real estate investment trusts focused on high density prime metro area apartment ownership and management are historically a stable asset class offering attractive dividends. These REITs have benefited from stable rent growth and low interest rates. 5yr Beta: 0.5 to 0.85 Dividend yields: 2.5% – 4.5% From February 2020 pre-COVID highs: Equity Residential (ticker: EQR)Continue reading “Are Residential REITs Undervalued?”

House Hacking

What is house hacking? House hacking is the act of buying a home or multi-unit property that you live in and rent out the remaining rooms or apartment units. House hacking is probably the smartest way to get into real estate ownership and investing. Here’s why: Dramatic reduction in monthly expenses. The rental revenue youContinue reading “House Hacking”

Blackstone Sweetens Deal To Sell 8,400 Spanish Properties for $1.2B USD

Blackstone is trying to sell its 8,400 unit portfolio of Spanish residential and commercial properties for $1.2B USD. The deal is complicated by the fact that Spain is in a deeper recession than the 2008 financial crisis. Markets and investors don’t like uncertainty, so to deliver confidence to any would-be suitors, the global private equityContinue reading “Blackstone Sweetens Deal To Sell 8,400 Spanish Properties for $1.2B USD”

Companies Like Opendoor

With Opendoor announcing last month that it will be going public via reverse merger with Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp II (NYSE: IPOB), a special purpose acquisition company organized by Chamath Palihapitiya, let’s take a look at a new category of technology enabled real estate services and see how they compare. The real estate marketContinue reading “Companies Like Opendoor”