Should You Flip Homes Or Rent Them Out?
Auction.com, an online real estate marketplace, analyzed the intent of investors bidding on homes at auction in the fourth quarter of 2014. It found that half the people it polled planned to flip the...
Are ETFs the Right Way to Invest?
"The game plan is to rent them until the market heals, then sell them." 14 Places Ripe for House-Flipping?...
Tech Companies Absorb San Francisco’s Leasing Market
Within one week in April, more than 1.1 million square feet of Class A office space was pre-leased in San Francisco by just two technology firms: Salesforce and Linkedin.
Rental landscape in London changing as more landlords seek capital growth
Over the last two years agent Strutt & Parker has seen a sharp increase in buy to let investors in the UK’s capital city with 26.2% of buyers in Chelsea purchasing a property for investment in the first quarter of this year compared to just 2.3% in the second quarter of 2012.
Surging rents "a very real concern" for Dubai tenants
A leading property consultant has warned that the rising cost of living in Dubai is “starting to become a very real concern for many residents” as new figures show residential rents have surged by an average 22 percent in the past year.
UPDATE 1-Airbnb in funding talks valuing it at about $10 bln-WSJ
TPG is likely to lead the funding round, which could total
$400 million-$500 million, the Journal reported, quoting two
sources close to the development. ( r.reuters.com/fup77v )...
Blackstone's Home Buying Binge Ends as Prices Surge
Blackstone's acquisition pace has declined 70 percent from its peak last year, when the private equity firm was spending more than $100 million a week on properties, said Jonathan Gray, global head o...
LACERA earmarks $400m for real estate investment
The Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association has approved new contributions to real estate totalling $400m (€296m)...
Single Family Takes Center Stage at UCLA Anderson School
In a first of its kind real estate event, Arixa Capital Advisors and UCLA Anderson School's Ziman Center for Real Estate co-hosted Single Family Take Center Stage on July 10, bringing together over 150 industry professionals for networking and a lively panel discussion on the residential real estate market.
Panelists included residential real estate experts Mauricio Umansky from The Agency, Gregory Heber of Community Rebuild Partners, Ramin Kolahi of Lighthouse Investments, Gabe Weinert of Johnson Capital, Kristoffer Winters from the Kristoffer Winters Company, and Jan Brzeski from Arixa Capital Advisors. The program was moderated by Billy Rose from The Agency.
In a Healthy Apartment Market, Pockets of Worry
A few developers are beginning to wonder if the demand they expected to gallop in to their new construction will materialize...