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Experts Split on Loosening Lending Standards

Almost half (46 percent) of the real estate economists and experts surveyed in Zillow’s latest Home Price Expectations Survey believe mortgage underwriting standards are about right today, but an equal...

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How the Rent Trap is Killing Off First-time Buyers

This is the year when the stars are aligned perfectly for record numbers of tenants to tear up their leases and kiss the renting life good-bye. Historically low mortgage rates won’t last much longer....

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Renters Double Up to Make it Through the Night

  With rents rising faster than home values and vacancy rates falling to the lowest levels of the post-Bubble era, something has got to give. In his presentation, “The Rent’s Too Damn High”, at the...

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Denver and Texas Markets Rate Best for Rentals

Investors have to hunt harder for well-priced acquisitions these days but the best rents can be found in the nation’s top  for-sale markets, according to new quarterly data from HomeVestors and Local...

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Strong Dollar Doesn’t Deter Foreign Residents

Sales to foreign investors interested in single family rentals are down, largely to a strengthening dollar, but foreign nationals living in the US are participating in the spring boomlet. The National...

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HomeVestors Proves Investing is Alive and Well

For the business of residential real estate investing, these are not the best of times.  Bargains on attractive properties to flip or to hold and convert to rentals are tough to find.  Foreclosures and...

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Rental Cost Crisis Worsens as Ownership Improves

The percentage of renters paying more than 30 percent of their income on housing costs is increasing while cost-burned homeowners are decreasing, according to the 2014 State of the Nation’s Housing...

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Five Reasons Rentals are Winning the War for the Millennials

The national homeownership rate has just fallen to its lowest level since June 1965, the month that the Rolling Stones released “I Can’t Get No Satisfaction” and Peter Sellers and Romy Schneider...

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The Return of the Prodigal Single Family Rentals

It’s no secret that inadequate inventories have been stunting the housing recovery.  Through November, total housing inventory has fallen year-over-year for 18 straight months and supplies are now 11.4...

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Single Family Rental Update: Are Landlords Selling?

During the Foreclosure Flood, four to six million foreclosures—about as many homes as are sold nationally every year—switched from ownership to rental, bringing the total of single family rentals to...

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