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Investing in real estate can have big rewards, but also big risks. When calculating the next place to look for an investment property or aiding a client in the hunt, it’s important to consider local economic conditions like business growth, new building permits and gross domestic product (GDP) growth. SmartAsset recently released its second annual list of the top counties for real estate investment based on the investment in the local community, measuring growth conditions for four specific components, all of which ...

Investing in real estate can have big rewards, but also big risks. When calculating the next place to look for an investment property or aiding a client in the hunt, it’s important to consider local economic conditions like business growth, new building permits and gross domestic product (GDP) growth. SmartAsset recently released its second annual list of the top counties for real estate investment based on the investment in the local community, measuring growth conditions for four specific components, all of which ...

Less Than Half Return Even 16 Years After Foreclosure

Next year marks seven years since the foreclosure crisis peaked in 2010, during which enough time would have passed for the black mark of foreclosure to be erased from millions of consumer credit reports. In total, 1.9 million homeowners who faced owner-occupied foreclosures between the start of the housing crisis in 2007 through 2010 will have met the seven-year period after which the Fair Credit Reporting Act requires derogatory information to be ...

New Single-Family Rental Index from CoreLogic Shows Slower Single-Family Rent Growth

Given the growing role that rental properties are playing in real estate, CoreLogic has developed a new Single-Family Rental Index (SFRI) to measure the changing rent dynamics of single-family rental properties. The index, which uses a methodology similar to our own CoreLogic Home Price Index (HPI), as well as the CoreLogic Case-Shiller Index, measures changes in rents by comparing repeat leases on the same single-family properties. The index allows us ...

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In this week’s video, Peter Lorimer of PLG Estates talks about the most efficient ways to find new clients in the real estate world.

Render of the apartments designed by Sueba USA. The Imperial Sugar Refinery in Sugar Land, Texas, closed in 2003, leaving only the skeleton of a manufacturing plant that helped build the entire city of Sugar Land. However, a breathe of life was given to the area when Johnson Development moved on with plans to continue developing mixed-use retail at the location. Based on the preliminary renders, much of the existing landmarks will be re-used in some way or another. Owner and ...

Despite the all-cash disclosure rules active between March and September 2016 in Miami, the National Association of Realtors says Florida remained one of the biggest international buyer destinations over the last year. Out of the $102.6 billion in U.S. purchases from foreign buyers between April 2015 and March 2016, Florida held 22 percent of transactions, according to the NAR Research Department. California came in second with 15 percent of purchases, and Texas sat at third with 10 percent. Arizona and New York tied for fifth, with ...