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Will REO-rentals Really Compete With Apartment Building Investments?
Greg Willett, VP of research over at Real Page wrote a nice piece on that which covers it nicely; take it away Greg: Thanks to one sentence uttered by Warren Buffett and some major overplay by the...
View ArticlePrivate Equity Has Too Much Money to Spend on REOs-to-Rentals Via Bloomberg
An interesting piece from Bloomberg entitled: Private Equity Has Too Much Money to Spend on Homes talking about how hard it is for large funds to buy foreclosed homes in bulk and turn them into rentals...
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PIMCO calls bottom in housing, but likes REOs-to-Rentals over apartment...
In a piece called Positioning for a Housing Recovery PIMCO says that the risks to housing have been overstated and while prices may continue to fall there are opportunities in the mispricing of that...
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How to make REOs-to-Rentals work: spin them into a REIT. Look out single...
Colony Capital has big plans for the REO-to-Rentals (RtR) sector. Not only do they want to buy 30,000 plus houses to rent them out, they also want to turn RtR into an institutional grade asset class....
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The State of US Commercial Real Estate, Single Family and Apartment Building...
Tom Barrack of Colony Capital on what’s really happening in US real estate from an investor’s perspective. The clearest, most cogent look at the state of commercial, multifamily and single family...
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My Challenge to Zillow on repair and maintenance costs in their rent vs. buy...
The Fiscal Times had a piece the other day reviving the good old rent vs. buy meme. The new angle was that Zillow has updated its method for comparing the costs of renting and the costs of buying and...
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Single-Family Rentals Only Marginally Impact Apartment Building Investments...
Scott Bassin, EVP and head of multifamily for PNC Real Estate says single family rentals will only marginally impact apartment building investment because there is a certain group of people who want or...
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Owning apartment buildings “is a great business” :Aaron Task on The Daily...
Aaron Task speaking on Yahoo Finance’s Daily Ticker show says that: “Owning apartment buildings and renting them out is a great business.” He’s not as sure about the single family REO to Rentals (RtR)...
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Phoenix population to add 2.6 million by 2040, housing supply not keeping up....
According to the ASU W.P. Carey School of Business’ Phoenix Housing Market Explained presentation, PHX will have to add housing equal to the current size of the Denver metro area over the next two or...
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#CRE #Multifamily and #Residential Real Estate state of the market video from...
Tom Barrack was on CNBC last week to talk about real estate with the traders. Great TB quote to open the show: “It’s always great to be the slowest guy on Fast Money”. There’s more wisdom in that...
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Opportunities For Real Estate Investment Today by Tom Barrack of Colony Capital
Tom Barrack over at Colony Capital put up a nice presentation of where he sees the opportunities for real estate investment in the current market. While Colony is geared to serving their large...
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46% of US Homeowners with a Mortgage are Frozen and Can’t Afford to Move
Was looking at some data from Zillow that indicates about 17% of US homes with a mortgage remain under water: Click on images for full size. Source: Zillow Bad enough but the reality is that a much...
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