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Interest rates are higher than anyone expected a year ago and they’re continuing to rise. As a result, many purchasers of multifamily properties with high leverage bridge debt will not be able to get the extensions on their loans they anticipated and will be forced to refinance at rates the properties can’t support without injecting more capital. At this point, they’ll have to reach out to their investors to request more capital or sell at a loss. Either way, the outlook is not good. Brian Burke...

The West Coast is home to several multifamily markets but it’s becoming more onerous to be a landlord in these markets as a result of increasing regulatory restrictions. That’s why Max Sharkansky, Managing Partner of Trion Properties, is diversifying from the West Coast into the Southeast where there continues to be big migration from other parts of the country as a result of job growth, low taxes, and flexible work-from-home employment options. Even though the U.S. economy is in a state of flux...

Taking a piece of land, envisioning a purpose for it, and bringing that vision to fruition is a large but exhilarating undertaking that also entails real risks. Even before you get the land entitled, you have to invest money in the zoning approval process, environmental studies, engineering feasibility, and other aspects that entail risk. Cowboy Joe Marquez has been involved in all stages of development from the initial evaluation of property to the final certificate of occupancy and everything ...

The biggest inhibitor to growing wealth is taxes. That’s why the best investing opportunity to-date is in Opportunity Zones where you can defer capital gains taxes plus avoid depreciation recapture, not to mention making great investments in transitioning neighborhoods with huge upside. Jimmy Atkinson, Founder of Opportunity Zone Database, created a database of over 300 Opportunity funds where investors can compare and choose different investment options when they’re coming out of a tax-deferred...

As interest rates have risen, prices have come down, sometimes significantly. Although sellers were initially reluctant to lower prices, they’re getting more realistic over time and concessions in the millions \ are being made on larger projects. Ryan Webster, Managing Partner of Equity Yield group, a multifamily operator with properties concentrated in the Florida Gold Coast, has been patiently making offers at prices that make sense for an investment that sellers are now responding to. The Gol...

90% of Alternative Investments are directly or indirectly placed in Real Estate. They can be great cash-flowing investments with high long-term appreciation. What they don’t provide is liquidity. You can’t get your money out whenever you want like a publicly traded stock. That’s why most financial advisors don’t recommend more than 20% of their client’s portfolios to be invested in alternative investments. Most advisors also don’t have as much knowledge of alternative investments as they do abou...

In the world of Real Estate finance, property owners can end up in arrears on their existing payments. In these cases their debt may be sold off to other lenders. In other cases, borrowers may not be able to obtain conventional financing for various reasons. In either of these cases, borrowers may wind up utilizing specialty lenders who help them solve their problems. Carson Rasmussen, Principal at Fairview Partners, lends money to borrowers who don’t have access to traditional banks. He buys no...

Even with the market changing with respect to debt challenges and interest rate increases, there’s still opportunities in the Value-Add apartment space long-term prosperity. As prices come down 10-15% and possibly even more over the next several months, there will be great opportunities to buy right and generate big value. The demand for rental housing persists, so the prognosis for multifamily buildings in the sunbelt and other growing markets remains viable. Chris Roberts, CEO – Founder of Ste...

Higher quality assets appreciate more in the long run, especially in supply constrained markets where it’s hard to build and there’s no more developable land. It’s simple, scarcity produces value. Even in recessions, quality construction assets hold their value better lesser assets in worse locations. Lior Rozhansky, Founder of Flora Capital, has pivoted from working class neighborhoods in Boston to multi-family in Class A neighborhoods as a pathway to “indestructible wealth.” It’s easier to man...

There’s no secret we have a housing shortage in this county and the problem will persist as it stays prohibitive to build new housing units for a number of reasons. This is one of the factors that’s contributed to the trend towards converting older motels into garden style apartments. Ross Hubbard, Co-founder of Sage Investment Group, has been acquiring older motels from the 80’s and 90’s and converting them into studio apartments with hotel-like amenity packages for people who sometimes have di...

The biggest aggregate asset class in the world is the U.S. single family housing market. That’s why the health of this asset class has such a large impact on the broader U.S. economy. Over time, single family homes in most markets have been one of the most predictable, conservative investments you can make. In most ten-year periods of time, home values have almost always gone up in value. Rich Fettke, Co-founder at Real Wealth.com and Author of The Wise Investor, has helped thousands of investor...

As interest rates have risen dramatically, asset prices have declined. The question on everyone’s’ mind is how much more they’ll fall and what’s the best investment strategy to be positioned for capital preservation and growth. One strategy that’s gaining more traction is investing in debt. Debt typically pays a predictable preferred return and is a conservative way to keep pace with inflation and preserve capital to set aside for future equity investments as the market further corrects. Will Po...

For investors in single family homes, auctions can be a great place to find deals. When homeowners can’t pay their mortgages, lenders will take back the properties and often put them up for sale at auction where investors can pay 25% less than the estimated value of the home, and sometimes even less. Daren Blomquist, VP of Market economics at Auction.com, discusses the macro state of the market and what to expect in 2023. Auction.com currently puts 3,000-5,000 on their site per month and that am...

Real Estate tends to go up over time and most newer investors have never experienced a downturn. There are periods, however, when Real Estate has come down in value and we’re quite possibly heading into a contracting environment currently. Joel Friedland, Principal of BRIT properties, only buys properties with all cash. Most of the challenges he had in 2008-2011 was the result of debt and declining values, and even then, he was not aggressively leveraged. That’s why he currently only does all ca...

The short-term rental space has exploded and turned into a formidable industry. Many successful owners are getting cash-on-cash returns in excess of 20%. At the same time, some markets have gotten over saturated, especially with two-to-three-bedroom dwellings. In the luxury end of the market, by contrast, there’s way less competition and many different uses for the properties like golf buddy outings, high-end bachelorette parties, to multi-generation family reunions and other uses. Lance Pederso...

In the world of multifamily Real Estate, the returns can be lucrative in heavy value-add projects. These opportunities also comprise the highest level of risk. Sometimes, the best opportunities are steady, workforce Class B apartments with high occupancy levels that will be resilient in economic downturns. Camilla Jeffs, Founder and CEO of Steady Steam investments, is a long-time real estate investor and teacher who helps her students find great risk adjusted investments where they can generate ...

When looking for yield, money from the coasts often winds up in other parts of the country. Great markets like Chicago offer better yields, and still offer very strong fundamentals for investors that provide cash flow and appreciation. Danny Spitz, CEO and Managing Partner at Greenstone Partners, helps serve the needs of private and institutional investors with a focus on $2,000,000 to $40,000,000 deals in retail, apartments, office and industrial properties. Danny has focused mostly on Chicago,...

A 3 or a 4 cap in one market is not always equal to a 3 or 4 cap in another market. The risk profile is greater in markets where there’s fewer regulatory challenges and lower barriers to entry in developing new projects. In California, and other West Coast markets, on the other hand, regulations and restrictions are far more onerous, so these markets are perpetually supply challenged, and therefore higher and more consistent rental demand. Eddie Ring, Founder and CEO of New Standard Equities, sp...

If you know how to manage lower income tenants and how to optimize the management of older properties, you can do extremely well. Many of these properties have ma and pa owners with under market rents and bloated expenses. On the supply side, there just aren’t enough of these properties for tenants to live in and there’s been very little new construction in many markets. As a result, occupancy levels can be well over 90%. Richard Simtob, Partner at Simtob Management and Investments, has acquired...

In the last five years, value add multifamily deals have abounded where you can buy a building at under significantly market rent, put $5,000- $10,000/unit into rehab, and sell within 12-24 months at a huge profit. As more and newer competition has entered the market, and as prices dramatically increased, these opportunities have become much harder to find. In addition, renters in these properties are particularly burdened by inflation and other economic factors. Will Matheson, Co-founder with h...

When things go wrong in a smaller apartment deal, it can wipe out all the Net Operating Income and profit in the deal. On bigger deals over 100 units, the property can absorb a lot more unexpected costs or mistakes before it erodes all the profit. Augostino Pintus, founder of Realty Dynamics Equity Partners in Cleveland, realized early on that it was much easier for him to operate bigger buildings. He also chose the Cleveland market because it didn’t have the crazy competition of many markets in...

After owning three Assisted Living homes in Phoenix, entrepreneur Gene Guarino created the Residential Assisted Living Academy in 2013 to train others to prosper like he had from the mega-trend of senior Assisted Living. The Residential Assisted Living Academy has since trained thousands of individuals to either start their own facility or acquire existing facilities in towns across the U.S. Last year, Gene unfortunately passed away, and his daughter Isabelle, who started The Residential Assiste...

With all asset classes priced at historically high levels, you may need to be open to different opportunities to find the right deal. When you expand your criteria, you’ll have more deals presented to you. The more deals that come across your desk, the more good deals you’ll find. Keith Nelson, Managing partner of Dual City investments Greenville, SC, started in multifamily back in 2014, but has pivoted to other asset classes across several markets in order to find great deals. In Keith’s latest...

According to The Family Office Real Estate Institute, a Family Office is a family with $250 Million to deploy in investable assets. There are 7500 in the U.S. and 16,000 in the world. 70% of families lose their money by the second generation and 90% lose it by the third. This is why family offices need expert advice on how to preserve and grow their capital. DJ Van Keuren created the The Family Office Real Estate Institute in order to provide Family Offices with Best in Class education and resou...