In the five years since the market peaked in 2006, homes in the bottom quarter of the market have lost more value proportionately than those in the top tier.
By: Steve Cook; Wed, Dec 7, 2011
During the boom, the only way first-time buyers, minorities and working families could afford to buy a home was through subprime and creative financing. Now that homeownership is affordable, new barriers to financing and competition with investors are locking them out of homeownership and changing the residential fabric of our communities from ownership to rental.
By: Steve Cook; Tue, Nov 22, 2011
Low home prices and strong demand for rental properties are causing a surge in investor buying, driving up the market share of homes purchased by investors.
By: editor; Wed, Oct 19, 2011
With rents rising faster than last year, the picture for residential real estate investors is getting even better than it already was as a result of once-in-a-generation prices and low interest rates, according to the founder of the leading Internet platform for investors and real estate professional.
By: Steve Cook; Wed, Oct 12, 2011
Even though the real estate depression has delayed many from moving ahead with plans to sell the family home, baby boomers are a red hot market for investment properties.
Anemic demand from owner-occupant homebuyers has forced investors to rent out about half of the homes they purchase -- as opposed to renovating and flipping the properties.
By: Steve Cook; Fri, Aug 12, 2011
Bank-owned foreclosures (REOs) are taking significantly longer to sell than foreclosures bought and resold by investors, extending the timeline for REO foreclosures even longer than the extraordinary delays for resulting from slower processing.
By: Steve Cook; Thu, May 26, 2011
Real estate investors are slightly more bearish than the general public about the outlook for prices in their local markets over the next six to 12 months.
By: Steve Cook; Fri, Mar 25, 2011
Lower prices and the strong Canadian dollar are encouraging one in five Canadians to buy U.S. property today, according to a new survey of by the Bank of Montreal.
By: Steve Cook; Mon, Mar 21, 2011
Investor activity dominated a sluggish distress sale market in February as homebuyers are increasingly frustrated by difficulties getting financing, according to the latest Campbell/Inside Mortgage Finance HousingPulse Tracking Survey.
By: Steve Cook; Fri, Mar 4, 2011
All-cash home sales are setting records in market after market around the country as investors account for a growing share of home purchases and individual buyers, especially first-time buyers, fade as mortgage rates rise and home buyer demand softens further.
By: Steve Cook; Fri, Dec 10, 2010
The quality, as well as the quantity, of many bank-owned properties in the REO inventory is creating a drag on home values because they are difficult to sell in today's market, Scott Sambucci, vice president of Altos Research, said yesterday in a Webinar for investors.
By: Steve Cook; Tue, Jul 27, 2010
Prices on homes ready to be occupied fell an average of 6.8 percent between May and June, but prices for damaged foreclosed properties increased by 5.9 percent during the same period.
By: Steve Cook; Mon, Jul 19, 2010
The number of American homes bought by foreign nationals has nearly doubled in the past year as falling property values and record numbers of distress sales encouraged immigrants and foreign investors to take advantage of affordable prices. With home purchases by US citizens plummeting in the wake of the tax credit, foreigners are now poised to gain an even larger ownership share of the US residential market.
By: Steve Cook; Fri, Jun 11, 2010
Banks using real estate brokers and agents to value short sales are increasingly becoming the victims of fraudulent schemes that have occurred in more than 1 percent of short sales this year and have already cost lenders at least $50 million in lost revenue, according to CoreLogic.
By: Steve Cook; Thu, Apr 22, 2010
Investors are back in the housing markets, driven by affordable prices, abundant foreclosures, low interest rates and now... rising rents.
By: Steve Cook; Wed, Dec 16, 2009
Recent industry studies suggest factors are at work that will make bargains harder to find and profit margins slimmer.
By: Steve Cook; Thu, Nov 12, 2009
The number of consumers interested in investing in real estate has doubled since March 2009.
By: Steve Cook; Mon, Aug 10, 2009
Suddenly Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are behaving like Wall Street Wonders instead of government-run utilities with massive debt and virtually no prospect of ever again operating like private entities.
By: Steve Cook; Tue, Mar 24, 2009
S&P Equity Research recently lowered its fundamental outlook for the residential (apartment) REIT sector to negative from neutral based on the excess supply of vacant houses being rented out.
By: David Lereah; Tue, Jan 13, 2009
Commercial real estate is finally joining the party. Even though there has been no meaningful overbuilding in commercial real estate, the outlook for the industry has seriously dimmed. The retail and office sectors have turned down with vacancies rising. And the industrial sector is not far behind. A tightened credit market and a slumping economy are to blame.
By: Steve Cook; Wed, Dec 21, 2011
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