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Earn More Money By Renting Your Property by the Room

By Richard | Mar 5, 2024

In this article When it comes to maximizing profit on your investment property, you’ve likely considered quite a few rental strategies. If long-term doesn’t pencil out, you could always consider revenue from medium-term or short-term tenants if your market supports it. But there is another successful, profitable rental strategy you should add to your arsenal: renting your property “by the room.” […]

$24M mansion in Delray Beach, palm trees NOT included

By Richard | Mar 4, 2024

Tour a $24 million mansion in Delray Beach, FL with 2.5 lakefront acres. The residence sits in Palm Beach County, but you won’t find a single palm tree on the property. The ubiquitous trees were nixed for greenery that would make the home feel less like a Florida mansion and more like a mega-villa in […]

Making $160K/Year From ONE “Rare” Property

By Richard | Mar 4, 2024

Every investor wants a rental property that brings in six figures, but not every investor is willing to scour old listings, bring in a partner, or exhaust all of their creative financing options. If you want the perfect deal, don’t let money get in the way! Today, we’re chatting with former Division II football coach […]

How China’s property bubble burst

By Richard | Mar 4, 2024

China’s top real estate developers, Evergrande and Country Garden, have defaulted on their debts. But the issues in China’s property market have much deeper roots. Desperate property developers in China have resorted to gifts like new cars, free parking spaces, phones and other consumer goods to attract homebuyers and boost flagging sales. These incentives are […]

I Grew up Going To Real Estate Auctions With My Dad—These Are the Lessons I Learned

By Richard | Mar 3, 2024

In this article I moved around a lot when I was younger. And I’m not talking from state to state or city to city—I moved a few doors down from wherever I was living. I never knew why, and frankly, I never asked my parents. All I knew was that I was with my family, […]

How to negotiate real estate agent commissions

By Richard | Mar 3, 2024

Fuse | Corbis | Getty Images When you buy or sell a home, your real estate agent’s commissions can trim thousands of dollars off the sale price — but many consumers don’t realize you can negotiate those terms. Nearly a third, 31%, of homebuyers and sellers negotiated commissions with their agents, according to a new […]

Is There New Risk of a Crash This Year? Here’s What Pundits Are Warning About

By Richard | Mar 3, 2024

In this article Yes, many pundits are still warning about a recession in 2024.  Here’s one example. Richard Duncan did a Macro Watch fourth-quarter update. He pointed out that between 1952 and 2009, all nine times total credit (adjusted for inflation) grew by less than 2%, and the economy went into a recession.  Credit growth […]

Morgan Stanley’s Laurel Durkay talks top opportunities in REITs

By Richard | Mar 2, 2024

ShareShare Article via FacebookShare Article via TwitterShare Article via LinkedInShare Article via Email Laurel Durkay, Morgan Stanley head of global listed real assets, joins ‘The Exchange’ to discuss the effects rates are causing on the real estate industry, REITs that cover alternative sectors and more. 03:59 Thu, Feb 29 20242:31 PM EST Source link

There Is an Interest Rate That Will Unfreeze the Market—But Will We Ever Get There?

By Richard | Mar 2, 2024

In this article Last week, Realtor.com published another version of its ‘‘magic number’’ forecast. The number in question is the mortgage rate number low enough to ‘‘unfreeze’’ the real estate market.  We know that the market has been in something of a gridlock for over a year now: Home prices are very high and keep rising. Mortgage […]