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Another Top-10 List — Best (and Worst) Housing Investment Markets
The evolution in housing since the bubble burst has been towards single family rentals. Many people that lost their homes in the downturn still prefer to live in single family properties rather than...
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Dividend Capital’s Real Estate Cycles Q4 2015 — Dr. Glenn Mueller
Once again I get to write about one of my favorite reports — the often requested summary of Dr. Glenn Mueller’s quarterly report on commercial real estate cycles. The Cycle Monitor – Real Estate Market...
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DrTCJ’s Tweets February 19, 2016 – March 3, 2016
For those of you that do not Tweet – you should consider doing so. If you want to talk about effective bang for the buck, the 140 total characters, letters, numbers and spaces of a Tweet on Twitter...
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February 2016 Existing Home Sales Up 2.2 Percent Year-Over-Year (SAAR) — But...
Even though monthly existing home sales increased from 295,000 in February 2015 to a preliminary 314,000 in February 2016 (up 6.4 percent), on a Seasonally Adjusted Annualized Rate (SAAR) they were up...
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Another Top-10 List — Cities With Greatest Percentage of Millennial Mortgage...
With an estimated 91 or 92 million Millennials between the ages of 15 to 34, this group makes up the largest population cohort ever seen in the U.S. Until now, however, they have not been major players...
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Another Top-10 List — Things in the Neighborhood Negatively Impacting Value
When it comes to real estate, location rules supreme. It is not just the positive amenities at or near that location, but also the lack of negative factors that add to value. Noise, traffic, crime,...
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Another Top-10 List — Cities With the Biggest Single Family Foreclosure...
Single family dwellings as rentals are one of the surprising surviving trends from the real estate bubble implosion and ongoing recovery. In the past when markets slid, many homes did become rentals –...
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Another Top-10 List — Trendiest But Still Affordable Cities
There are two words not often used in the same sentence when describing a housing market: Trendiest and Affordable. Yet Millennials today seek both when looking for a place to live and work. So what...
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A Re-Look at Housing Seasonality — Tis the Season to Buy and Sell Homes
My favorite quote from Mark Twain is, While history may not repeat itself, it certainly does rhyme, or some variation there-of. That is true even in the housing market. We are approaching the peak...
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DrTCJ’s Tweets March 25, 2016 Through April 7, 2016
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March Existing Home Sales Up 1.5 Percent Year-Over-Year and Up 5.1 Percent...
March 2016 existing home sales rose 1.5 percent year-over-year on a seasonally adjusted annualized rate (SAAR) of 5.33 million, which was also up 5.1 percent sequentially from February per the National...
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Another Top-10 List — Hottest Residential Real Estate Markets in April 2016
Prospective homebuyers are heading out in droves as housing markets spool up for the high sales season of the year. Some markets are hot and others are not. Once again I invoke the TINSTAANREM clause —...
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DrTCJ’s Tweets April 8, 2016 Through April 28, 2016
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Another Top-10 List — Top Markets for Institutional Investors Residential...
A unique residual of this housing recovery is the staying power of investors that bought at heavily discounted distressed prices that remain today as rentals – a phenomenon that is still occurring. As...
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Another Top-10 List — Best Places to Raise a Family in 2016
I was very fortunate growing up in Montrose, Colorado. It was a safe town – with many people in those days not locking their doors to their homes and even putting the keys of vehicles on the sun visor....
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Another Top-10 List — Markets with Greatest Percentage of Housing Flips
As limited inventory pervades many of the U.S. housing markets, entrepreneurs once again are turning to flipping: buying a home, completing repairs and upgrades, and then reselling the property –...
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Dividend Capital’s Real Estate Cycles Q1 2016 — Dr. Glenn Mueller
This is my favorite quarterly blog — Dr. Glenn Mueller’s Real Estate Cycles from Dividend Capital. Such a mass density of data in so little space. Let’s talk commercial real estate markets in the...
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Another Top-10 List — Best Housing Markets for Millennials
Millennials today make up the largest population cohort ever recorded in U.S., with an estimated 83 million in the 18 to 34 year old range. While many industry observers note that Millennials are not...
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May 2016 Existing Home Sales Most Since February 2007
May 2016 existing home sales were up 4.5 percent from a year ago and up 1.8 percent sequentially from April 2016 to 5.53 million units on a seasonally adjusted annualized rate (SAAR) according to the...
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Another Top-10 List — Hottest Outdoor Features and What They Cost
I can remember as a kid when the primary outdoor feature of a home was a swing set and perhaps a barbeque. All that has changed as the outdoors is now often an extension of the home – particularly in...
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