There’s a real dilemma as an investor relations person when it comes to Wall Street and your company’s earnings performance. If you have a bad quarter and fail to meet expectations, the market will react negatively and essentially punish your stock price – sometimes literally… Read more

As an appraiser and investor, I have always stated that a residence, to be truly considered an investment, must rent for at least 1 percent of its market value each month.  I can recall in 1990 traveling in a shuttle van in Oahu, Hawaii, with… Read more

Since 2008, it has a been a trying market for many college graduates to find a job in a location where they could also afford renting a place to live and receive a decent pay check. Forbes has reported a study completed by Rent.com looking… Read more

One of the megatrends I have talked about the past two years is that we will continue to have younger individuals being more predisposed towards rental housing. I truly believe that most of the college and trade school graduates in the past five years and… Read more

The U.S. Census Bureau has just released a report examining homeownership rates and vacancy levels in both rental housing and owner-occupied housing. Nationwide, the rental housing vacancy rate for the fourth quarter of 2012 was 8.7 percent (versus 9.4 percent for Q4 2011), while the… Read more

After getting the results of commercial real estate’s annual physical, we can see how truly healthy that market is tracking. Fortunately for data purposes, The National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries (NCREIF), a non-profit trade association for tax-exempt investors (such as pension funds) in… Read more

The planets are lining up, so to speak, making residential rental property owners positive about expectations, and at the same time with tenants facing a prognosis of ongoing rising rents amid a mounting wave of demand for properties.  Perhaps more significantly, this trend is expected… Read more

Economics 101 teaches us that price changes in assets, goods and services are a function of supply and demand. The economic demand (versus demographics demand) for real estate is a function of job growth and income. HomeVestors® (the real estate franchise with the signs that… Read more

The second installment in the commercial real estate returns series is on apartments. In my presentations this year I have talked about mega themes, one being that, because of the housing bubble and revised more stringent mortgage underwriting standards, many people that graduated from trade… Read more

With an estimated 14.4 million college students, University and College towns are fertile rental markets. But with the housing bubble and the lowest interest rates in 50 years, investing in rental housing in these locales can be lucrative. The National Association of Realtors® has ranked… Read more