Seller Financing: What Investors Must Know Now

The Dodd Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act took full effect in January 2014 – a wide-ranging piece of legislation that affects how sales of residential real estate are managed. In an age when more property sales than ever before are conducted...

Rent Costs Outpace Home Prices

It’s still a renter‘s market, but it’s more expensive than ever to become a renter. As a new article from NuWire reports, in many markets around the country, rent costs are rising faster than home prices. In a time when home ownership is at near-record low levels and...

Will the 30-Year Mortgage Disappear?

For decades, the 30-year mortgage has been a staple of the US real estate industry, making it pp0ssoble for millions of Americans – and investors – to buy houses without draining their savings. But the good old 30-year mortgage may be a dying breed, as the government...

Real Estate: Still the Leading US Asset

If you put your money on coffee and cattle in 2014, you might be smiling all the way to the bank. But if you backed crude oil and gas – well, not so much. That’s the verdict from Business Insider’s recent charting of the performance of what it claims are all the major...

Moving Data Holds Clues for Investors

The US has always been a restless nation. Moving – whether across the street or across the country – is a given in the lives of most Americans, who pack up and head out for work, school and countless other reasons. Recent data on destinations and departures from the...