Economy by Steve Cook | January 25, 2012When it comes to residential real estate investors, there are clearly two points of view today within the real estate industry and in Washington. Some applaud investors for plunking down their own dollars to save decaying homes in moribund neighborhoods and reviving local real estate markets. But investors come under fire by others for out-competing [...]
Economy by Steve Cook | January 18, 2012In the dorky world of real estate economics, the creation of a new housing category should be a major event, on par with, say, the discovery of a new solar system or the cloning of a pig. Strangely, single family rentals (SFR), even though they are now a multi-million property segment of the nation’s housing [...]
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Rental Outlook 2012: The Good Times Roll on
by Steve Cook | December 28, 2011The stars are aligned to make 2012 an extraordinary year for rental income. The decline in homeownership is translating into rising rents and the multifamily apartment sector, though booming today, was late catching the wave. If it weren’t for the new investor-driven single family rentals in many markets, rents would be zooming even higher than [...]