apartment investing
Commercial Real Estate by Joey Wang | October 18, 2011 
The Leap to Commercial Real Estate Investments The stage is set . . . you’re ready to jump into the world of commercial real estate investments. Maybe you’ve been buying or selling single family homes, and your success is prompting you to think bigger, possibly on acquiring apartments — or, maybe you’re a new investor [...]
Read the full article → Commercial Real Estate by Khary Reynolds | August 23, 2010 
With the record amount of residential foreclosures in recent years, there poses a great opportunity to profit from rental housing by investing in Apartment Buildings. However, even if you recognize this opportunity, you must know how to go about financing any potential apartment investment that you come across. In today’s turbulent economy the best real [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by J Scott | June 24, 2010While most of my active real estate efforts go towards rehabbing/flipping houses, I’m a huge fan of investing in apartments. I’ve done some passive investing in the past (invested in other people’s projects) and am always on the looking for great apartment deals to add to my portfolio. Why do I love apartment investing so [...]
Commercial Real Estate by Ted Karsch | April 7, 2010Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan said that he believes a bubble in the commercial real estate market has already popped in a recent interview with ABC Senior White House Correspondent, Jack Tapper. “Real estate prices are down 50%. With prices already down and adjusted, if we were going to get severe secondary reactions, they would [...]
Commercial Real Estate by Ted Karsch | September 1, 2009- Prices are Falling — Prices for apartment buildings are steadily dropping. Many apartment building owners paid way too much for their properties over the past few years and now their properties are worth less than what they owe. Apartment buildings are starting to show up as foreclosures across the country and it is further pressuring prices to the downside.
- Forced Appreciation — You don’t have to wait for real estate prices to go back up to increase the value of your apartment building investment. You can increase the value of you apartment building by increasing the rents, cutting your expenses or by making physical improvements on the property.
- Less Competition — Many investors are under the false impression that owning an apartment building is more difficult than owning single family homes, therefore their is less competition for prime properties.
Commentary by Ted Karsch | July 1, 2009While the turmoil in the residential real estate markets continues to make headlines, some analysts and prognosticators are questioning whether we will see the same kind of meltdown and mass foreclosures in the commercial real estate side of the industry. And the general consensus of those quoted in various news services and website across the [...]
Commentary by Ted Karsch | March 24, 2009There are many ways that investors use to find motivated sellers, however, what I see happening many times with beginners is that they start looking for properties to purchase before they thoroughly understand how to identify a truly profitable opportunity. Here are my recommendations for how to begin learning about multifamily investing and then how [...]
Commercial Real Estate by Ted Karsch | February 10, 2009The most important aspect of apartment investing is having the ability to locate an apartment building that offers the potential to show you a profitable return on your investment. It is nearly impossible to realize a profit on an apartment if you pay too much because when you pay an inordinate amount to purchase the [...]
Commercial Real Estate by Ted Karsch | January 20, 2009Some of the best deals to be had for the buyer of apartment building can be had by ignoring real estate listings and going directly to the source. However, locating and making contact with apartment building owners actually takes some work. The work is not hard or time-consuming if you know where and how to [...]
Commercial Real Estate by Ted Karsch | January 13, 2009There is no hard and fast scientific formula to determine what market rents should be for an apartment building investment. Instead the apartment building owner should rely on less scientific but equally important factors such as amenities and location. The owners frame of reference needs to switch from owner to renter to truly understand the [...]
Commentary by Ted Karsch | September 23, 2008Investing, in my opinion, should be treated like a business. It requires a product which produces an income or cash flow larger then the expenditures necessary to sell the product. Therefore, it should produce a profit for the manager or business owner. Unfortunately, many investors are actually not investors at all in the business sense [...]
Commentary by Ted Karsch | August 26, 2008The imminent failure of both Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae has already begun to have a detrimental impact on the larger US economy and the ability of home buyers to finance the purchase of a new home. This is an unfortunate circumstance for many young families who may not be able to qualify for a [...]
Commercial Real Estate by Ted Karsch | August 20, 2008The first purchase of an apartment building can seem like an overwhelming endeavor for the buyer. There is a lot of information and terminology that is suddenly thrust upon the first time investor and chances are that the new investor doesn’t have the knowledge base to accurately sift through the information to obtain and utilize [...]
Commercial Real Estate by Ted Karsch | August 12, 2008Let’s take a look at some of the actual returns for a small apartment building investment over a period of five years. Whenever you are making projections into the future concerning investment returns it is always necessary to make some assumptions. In this case we will keep our assumptions very conservative and well in line with historical averages.
Financing Real Estate by Ted Karsch | June 30, 2008As I stress time and time again to new apartment building investors, before making an offer on any apartment building real estate property be sure that the investment will be a profitable one. Banks and commercial mortgage lenders will only lend money on an apartment building that has a Debt Service Coverage Ratio of at [...]
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Is Multifamily Immune from Commercial Real Estate Decline?
by Ted Karsch | July 1, 2009While the turmoil in the residential real estate markets continues to make headlines, some analysts and prognosticators are questioning whether we will see the same kind of meltdown and mass foreclosures in the commercial real estate side of the industry. And the general consensus of those quoted in various news services and website across the [...]