I'm a licensed agent in Georgia and I got tired of buying "motivated seller" lists that were either months old or full of wrong owners. So over the past year I started tracking distressed owners across metro Atlanta myself from public records. I'm at about 5,300 now, and a few things surprised me...
Last week produced one of the widest gaps between a headline number and the data underneath it that we have seen this year, and it has direct implications for anyone modeling a refinance. Two Very Different Labor Markets The BLS said the economy added 162,000 jobs in August, roughly three times t...
Something in the August data is worth separating out, because the headline number is misleading. Active listings are up 3.6% year over year. New listings are down 0.1%. National inventory is still about 11% below pre-pandemic levels. So the growth in what you see on the market is not sellers arri...
Looking for honest opinions, not just success stories especially from people investing in secondary Rust Belt markets. My situation: I’m in my mid-20s, building a small portfolio in the Youngstown, OH / Mahoning Valley area under my own LLC. I still work a W2 for income stability and lending elig...
Everyone in real estate says "buy in the off-season." I wanted to know if the data actually backs it up. So I pulled 4,896 single-family sales across Highland Park, Mac-Groveland, Union Park and West 7th - six years, October 2020 through September 2026 - and measured what buyers actually paid rel...
The Great Stay: What It Could Mean for the Memphis Housing Market Homeowners aren't moving as often as they used to. A recent trend being called “The Great Stay” describes a growing number of homeowners choosing to stay in their current homes rather than sell and move. Higher mortgage rates, elev...
I recently purchased a house, and as a data enthusiast, I'm thrilled about the possibilities! I used to be frustrated by the hassle of juggling multiple platforms for crime stats, rent data, taxes, insurance, liquidity, and other key metrics. Now that I have more free time, I’m considering whethe...
Developers are pulling back on new apartments just as one of the city's favorite fixes, turning empty offices into housing, is starting to look like a dead end. The pipeline is shrinking, fast New York's multifamily development pipeline took a sharp step backward in the second quarter. Developers...
Florida STR investors, what has been your biggest challenge over the past 12 months? Insurance? Regulations? Property taxes? Occupancy? Finding reliable property management? It seems like every market has shifted a bit, and I'm curious what's had the biggest impact on your business.
Charlotte real estate investors — one ZIP code just caught my attention- It has a 2% vacancy rate for August 2026! For investors looking at rental properties, vacancy is an important metric because it can have a direct impact on your rental income and overall cash flow. In my August 2026 Market W...
My gut was telling me that gloom-and-doom days are ahead, so as I prepared for this post, I thought I would turn to one of my favorite sources of economic data, the St. Louis Federal Reserve, for their data. What I found regarding mortgage delinquency was not as bad as I thought. Check out this c...
65 to 70 percent of our sales last year were multifamily. Here's the breakdown behind that number. Our brokerage did 65–70% multifamily transactions last year. We were the #1 brokerage for multifamily transaction volume in Massachusetts, and we landed in the top 5 across New England for multifami...
Jackson Hole was the week's main event and it did not go the way most underwriting assumptions have been written. The Fed Speech Nobody Was Positioned For Fed Chair Kevin Warsh spoke Friday and made returning inflation to the 2% target his stated top priority. He acknowledged progress but said th...
The city publishes crime data and I analyzed the data from 2023 to 2025 and found some interesting stats: May is the busiest month for property crime. May, June and July are all higher than the average. November is the quietest month. May runs 38 percent higher than November. Every year, crime pe...
I pulled my own MLS numbers for Jefferson County, Kentucky this week - single family, July against July - and one line in the table refuses to behave. Active listings: 1,777 -> 2,291. Up 28.9%. Pendings: 999 -> 882. Down 11.7%. Average days on market: 23.0 -> 26.2. Up 3.2 days. Actives per pendin...
Honest question for agents here: when someone submits an inquiry through your site, does anything actually check that the email's valid or that every field got filled in? Or does it just land wherever it lands, and you only find out something went wrong when a lead you never followed up with ment...
Hello BiggerPockets Community,As a Real Estate Master Planner, I have developed and finalized a comprehensive financial feasibility and capital structure for a premium hospitality development concept on Palm Jebel Ali, Dubai, named AQUA-VENICE.This is a pure "Concept & Financial Model" intended f...
I just looked up the number of homes for sale for July 26 in the Sacramento, Placer, and El Dorado counties and it is now 4277 homes listed for sale. There were 2596 homes for sale back in Jan. 26 in the same three counties. In june 26 there were 4112 homes for sale so the number of active listin...
🏠 The market right now is interesting because we’re not seeing the crash many people predicted—but we’re also nowhere near an easy buying environment. Mortgage rates are still in the upper-6% range, affordability remains difficult, and transaction volume is weak. At the same time, home prices hav...