How Top U.S. Opportunity Zones are Ranked
An opportunity zone is a federally designated low-income area targeted for investment in order to revitalize the communities and kick start the economy. Real estate developers are offered tax incentives for reinvesting capital gains into these zones. Recently, LOCUS published a report ranking the top opportunity zones in the U.S.
Fix-And-Flip Financing Is Finally Getting A Much-Needed Update
With big-name development projects hogging the spotlight, the wave of small development projects sweeping across the U.S. has largely gone unnoticed. “Fix-and-flip” properties make up almost 6% of national residential sales, according to Attom Data.
Chicago: City of Broad Shoulders Could Still Use More Elbow Room… Maybe
While Class A rents will likely struggle to find a 2% increase this year, Class Bs are projected to gain 3% and Class Cs 4%. This is an inversion of what happened in 2018.
Sharestates Recently Funded Real Estate in Chicago
Chicago, like every other major city in America, has its good attributes and bad ones. Your experience living in Chicago has a lot to do with where you live.
6 Things to Look for in a Real Estate Crowdfunding Investment
You’d be surprised at how similar it is to analyze a real estate crowdfunding investment and a traditional real estate investment, but there are differences.
The Backbone of Real Estate Crowdfunding is a Solid Underwriting Practice
While it is important to perform a risk assessment on borrowers and sponsors, it’s just as important to perform a risk assessment on the properties. It’s the properties, after all, that investors are investing in.
Brooklyn: Nothing is Hip Forever
Brooklyn has been through a lot of changes since the 1950s. It evolved from a rough-around-the-edges, working-class borough of New York City to a blighted but unbowed urban expanse that forged its own voice.
Houston: Is ‘Space City’ Running out of Housing Space?
Still, Houston ranks up there with other top-tier American cities when it comes to job growth, rising rents and other signs of a healthy metropolis. But in Houston — even more so than almost any other American city — the key to success in real estate is location, location, location.
Sharestates Recently Funded Real Estate in Brooklyn
What can I say about Brooklyn, NY. It’s one of my favorite places. It is the most populated borough of NYC with an estimated 2.7 million residents as of 2017 and one of the most diverse as well. Bordering Queens and Long Island NY, there is easy access to Manhattan commuters through bridges and tunnels by bus, rail or fixed gear bicycle.
Are Fix-and-Flips Still a Hot Market in 2019?
Whether fix-and-flips are “hot” largely depends on where you’re located. Like real estate sectors, geography plays a big part in whether a real estate is hot or cold, and geographical markets run in cycles too.
