Real Estate Investing and Marketing News

Rentcafe says over the last two years, apartment conversions have jumped by 25% compared to the two years prior, bringing a total of 28k new rentals in 2020-2021.  In addition, they point out that adaptive reuse has picked up speed in America’s largest cities.  Indeed… &#82Read More

Back in August we posted about Airbnb’s plans to roll out new “anti-party tools” in the US and Canada to help identify potentially high-risk reservations and prevent those users from taking advantage of their platform.  Now, fast-forward to mid-November and they have launchRead More

The U.S. government is reporting that privately‐owned housing starts in October were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1425,000, which is 2.4% lower than September’s revised number and 8.8% lower than one year ago.  October’s rate for units in buildings with five units or mRead More

The National Association of Realtors is reporting that existing home sales were down 5.9% in October to a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 4.43 million (down 28.4% year over year).  Total housing inventory at the end of October was 1.22 million units, down 0.8% from September aRead More

We’ve had many posts about how real estate is the best chosen investment, time and time again.  Today’s infographic from Keeping Current Matters reminds us that homeownership is in fact a form of building wealth.  They point out that not only does growing equity increRead More

The venerable AAA says it’s time to “buckle-up” this Thanksgiving as they say over 55 million people will be traveling – up 1.5% from 2021.  They expect this year to be the third busiest for Thanksgiving travel since AAA started tracking this data in 2000. “Families and friends aRead More