The Benefits of a Broad Geographic Reach
Monday, January 05
Realty Mogul has long touted the benefits of its nationwide operations as part of a broader benefit – the ability to diversify across geographic markets. Yet some investors remain fond of investing in their own local markets, believing that they can “invest in what they know.” But are demograph...
What IRR Can Tell Investors About Real Estate Investments
Monday, December 15
Today, we will explore the basics of the calculation of Internal Rate of Return. IRR is one of the metrics of choice for many real estate investors because it takes into account the time value of money using discounted cash flow analysis. Investors should think of IRR as the projected rate of g...
Student Housing – An Overview
Thursday, December 11
We’ve earlier posted content on several different segments of commercial real estate such as multi-family, hospitality, office, and retail, and in this article we will discuss the student housing market. Student housing is a subset of the multi-family asset class and is characterized as housing p...
Crowdfunding Generates More Than $60,000 an Hour
Tuesday, November 18
Every hour in the month of March 2014, more than $60,000 dollars were raised via crowdfunding throughout the world. Yes, that’s right - $60,000 per hour, each and every day. Driven by the same forces as Moore’s Law (the observation that computing power doubles every 2 years) worldwide crowdfundin...
Interest Rates and Real Estate – Q4 2014
Friday, November 14
The Federal Reserve used to be almost entirely focused on reducing inflation. Recently, however, it seems to be paying more attention to unemployment – and in keeping interest rates low to support job growth. What does this mean for real estate investors?Stimulus is Ending, but the Fed is Still...
Current Statistics on Private Real Estate Investing
Friday, November 07
Realty Mogul has released the results of an extensive survey of real estate syndications, accumulating data from across 311 unique private placements and involving properties worth nearly $5 billion in total.The data indicates that the average preferred return being offered to investors over the ...