Higher prices and fewer foreclosures have not put a dent in the flipping business. In fact, last year saw 156,862 single family home flips — where a home is purchased and subsequently sold again within six months — in 2013, up 16 percent from 2012 and up 114 percent from 2011, according to RealtyTrac’s Year-End and Q4 2013 Home Flipping … Read More »
Hedge funds and other large investors do much better by buying up rentals in higher rather than lower income neighborhoods, according to a new report sponsored by RealtyTrac. The preference for pricey may be contributing to the deterioration and loss of low-cost rental housing, labeled grave concerns by the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies. Read More »
Real estate investors large and small have helped clear foreclosure inventories, supported prices in ailing markets and renovated sizable portions of the nation’s housing stock. However, if their share of the housing stock or debt financing grows, they could pose significant risk to the nation’s financial stability, a new study by two Federal Reserve economists concludes in what is believed be the first study exist on the effect of single-family-real-estate business investor activity on housing markets or other outcomes. Read More »
Institutional investor purchases in October were lower than a year ago and represented only 6.8 percent of all home sales in October, a sharp drop from a revised 12.1 percent in September and down from 9.7 percent in October 2012. Read More »
Blackstone began marketing the first-ever US home-rental asset-backed security on Wednesday, with some 300 potential investors expected in New York to peruse the nearly $480 million deal. Read More »
Though most observers forecast rising home prices would drive investors out of the market for single family rentals, that fact is that to date investors have purchased more homes than they did in all of 2012 or 2011. Read More »
Once a lowly line item on the nation’s list of housing choices, single family rentals-once known as rental homes– today are the hottest thing going. Read More »
Recovering prices helped short-term flippers earn an average gross profit of $54,927 on single family home flips in the third quarter, up 12 percent from a year ago. Read More »
Institutional investors accounted for 10 percent of all sales in August, up from 9 percent in July and 9 percent in August 2012, reported RealtyTrac in its monthly foreclosure report released Thursday, September 26. Read More »
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