Demystifying Investing
I prefer to buy at the bottom of the market…how about you? The time to buy multifamily assets is now…its a refrain that I’ve been offering for several months. But there is a difference…now it makes sense for stock holders to move their equity into multifamily. Rose City Commercial Real Estate can show you how to invest your IRA…and not create a taxable event! Let... Read More »
In order to put our local apartment market in perspective I performed my own analysis of the data. The headlines about big REIT players and Class A assets? Absolutely true. But under reported is the way that all segments of the multifamily market have picked up. The average age of multifamily investment closed in the last 12 months? 36+ years! That suggests that repositioning opportunities... Read More »
By Randyl Drummer of CoStar Investors continue to prefer U.S. apartment buildings over most commercial properties, even commercial office space, as total multifamily sales volume jumped nearly 80% in the second quarter over the same perioud last year. Although still just a fraction of its mid-2007 peak, the nearly $15 billion in sales in the quarter brought total investment for the first half of 2011... Read More »
To be a genius in 5 years make smart real estate investments today. To minimize risk a conservative investor should consider: Buying a multifamily investment with no debt, or very low Loan to Value debt. If any debt is part of the deal make sure it is positive leverage! (Finance rate percentage is lower that Cap Rate.) Buy in a city who’s in “Recovery Mode”. Use Portland as... Read More »
On May 6, 2010 NYSE stock values took a roughly $1,000,000,000,000 (trillion dollar) hit in about 20 minutes. Fortunately we discovered it was only a glitch in the automated trading programming and not a reflection of broader investor sentiment. Stocks rebounded in short order. Yesterday, August 8, 2011 it took much longer (all day) for the Dow Jones Industrial Average to drop 635 points, losing... Read More »
