The Investor Insights

The housing market is flooded with inventory, which reduces demand for any given house. And mortgage approval rates are down, making it tough for buyers to get financing. Sounds like a rotten situation for sellers and buyers. But not necessarily. Despite these difficulties, it’s possible to get creative with financing – seller financing, that is. [...]

We’re a nation of renters. That’s what the market is telling us. According to a report from MSNBC.com, “the number of houses occupied by renters rose faster than the pace of new vacancies created by homeowners moving out” (in the last quarter of 2011). Commerce Department data shows that rentals increased by 749,000 in the [...]

A hot topic in Washington, D.C. this month is what to do with 3 million REOs currently in holding by the Federal Housing and Finance Agency. The popular answer is to make the government agency the largest landlord in America. Does this help or hurt the investor market and, more importantly, the recovery of the [...]

Thanks so much to all of you who participated in this year’s Investor Insights Survey!  I do this once a year to help me plan and create the content that YOU want.  So, it’s important for all of us. Here are the results of the survey.  We had over 1,000 investors take the survey so [...]

Morgan Stanley’s report Housing Market Insights – A Rentership Society was released recently and has a fantastic prediction for real estate investors and those that are operating in the bulk REO arena scouting packages. One of the study’s authors, Oliver Chang, was interviewed recently on CNBC and has some encouraging news for investors. What do [...]