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Every fortune 500 company plus thousands of others place employees in corporate housing. From a landlord perspective, the rents that are paid for these properties vastly exceed long-term rentals and have less wear and tear. A...

Both residential and commercial occupancy rates and rents are contracting in many places and the government remains committed to taming inflation. Additionally, taxes, insurance, and other expenses are increasing. For operato...

With so much disruption in the capital markets, lending today has gotten increasingly complex and difficult to navigate. In order to be successful in the current environment, sponsors need to be more resourceful and creative ...

The key to success in any Real Estate venture is conservative underwriting. In a super competitive environment, it’s easy to convince yourself to believe unrealistic assumptions in order to bid high enough to win a deal. This...

There’s a need for 7 million more affordable apartment units in the country, but the cost of new construction is so high that it’s hard to build new apartments and rent them out at affordable rents. That’s why municipalities ...

There’s a need for 7 million more affordable apartment units in the country, but the cost of new construction is so high that it’s hard to build new apartments and rent them out at affordable rents. That’s why municipalities ...

Even though interest rates have risen dramatically over the past year, most apartment owners have not adjusted their expectations downwards when it comes to lowering the prices of their assets. This delta in the bid-ask of pr...

With most existing multifamily properties still priced too high to generate decent cash flow, many operators are turning to ground up development to generate more attractive returns. When these projects go according to plan, ...

By ruthlessly managing expenses, you can make C Class properties profitable, but there are ongoing challenges and risks. Even after you’ve stabilized the properties, there are continual maintenance issues and expenses you can...

Prices on older buildings can look attractive but you get what you pay for. The biggest challenge with older properties is being able to project expenses. Properties from the 1960’s 70’s, and early 80’s tend to have a lot of ...

The state of Florida is continuing to see exponential growth, especially Central Florida. The markets of Tampa, Orlando, and Sarasota are adding jobs and population at an unprecedented pace. As a result, Real Estate rents and...

Even in deep recessions, Class B apartments are stable assets and generally withstand downward economic pressure. Class C apartments, on the other hand, pose significant risk because of unanticipated costs to repair and maint...

Unlike residential mortgages, commercial loans are vastly more complicated with thousands of different lenders with different lending guidelines and product types. As a result, the process can be overwhelming with a lot of po...

With the cost of construction and borrowing costs rising, it’s become prohibitive to build new neighborhood strip centers with very few new centers built in the last fifteen years. As a result, occupancy levels at existing pr...

40% of multifamily properties bought in Q 3 and Q 4 2020 and 2021 with variable rate debt will likely not get refinanced by their current lenders. In these scenarios, operators will be forced to attempt to raise more money vi...

As inflation has taken a big bite out of renter’s pocketbooks, delinquencies on C Class apartments have increased, and prices on these assets have come down. In the next couple years, a lot of inexperienced operators who boug...

In most tertiary markets in the Midwest, there’s been very little new building of multifamily housing in many years. Therefore, buildings in many of these markets have very high occupancy levels. These markets also tend to ha...

When making investments in Real Estate, the most important consideration is who you’re investing with. Proformas are always enticing, but the differentiator is the operator. More than the ability to judge the merits of a spec...

Unlike most other asset classes, Mobile Home Parks and Self-Storage facilities have maintained almost all of their value despite interest rates having skyrocketed over the past year. Rents in both asset classes have stabilize...

The most successful Real Estate investors determine when to invest in order to generate the highest returns. In a market where asset prices have skyrocketed, there are greater gains to be made in ground up development and lan...

Investing in single family dwellings and three to four-unit apartments can generate cash flow and appreciation, but they tend to be time consuming to manage. If you want to better leverage your time and your capital, it can ...

No matter what the economic trends, there’s always an opportunity to make money. You just need to see where the market’s heading. It’s not always in synch with the media and where everyone else is investing. Bob Fraser, Found...

Contrary to all the success stories, Real Estate is a hard business that requires resilience in order to be successful. It’s not a matter of if things will go wrong, it’s a matter of what will go wrong and when, and how you d...