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The Technology Transforming the Residential Real Estate Investment Industry
Predictive analytics is about to transform the residential real estate investment property industry  Predictive analytics can help investors understand the proverbial question, ” How good is the area?”  and in turn better manage risk.
Over the past few years as Wall Street hedge funds have aggressively moved in to single family homes as an alternate asset class many of these investment funds have been creating their own models for determining the risk associated with a particular property.
Today, predictive analytics is beginning to be applied to residential real estate industry by …

Understanding Residential Cash Flow Models is Critical

Buying homes as investment properties where they are fixed up and then a rented for cash flow has long been dominated by individual mom and pop Main Street type investors. But now Wall Street hedge funds, private-equity firms, pension funds and university endowments are entering the market in a very big way. The attraction for Wall Street is really simple, double digit returns at a time when most bonds and other income investments yield very little.  The most popular strategy is for a big …

Master Lease Options are one of the best ways for acquiring Commercial Real Estate Investment Properties with little to no money down! Even better, you can really mitigate the risk of your investment since you are ultimately committing to very little with the seller!
In 2013 there is really only one way to profit in Commercial real estate with out cash, credit, experience or risk. That is being able to master Commercial Master Lease Options techniques. Here’s how a Commercial Master Lease Option works:
First you identify an owner of an underperforming …

We are currently looking to acquire individual and portfolio’s of single family homes in the Jacksonville Florida market. The BuyersUtopia network is made up of numerous individual investors, private equity firms  and institutional investors that are aggregating single family rental properties in the Jacksonville Florida market.
We can buy Class A and Class B properties in the greater Jacksonville area including the Northside, Westside, Southside, and Arlington, as well as the Jacksonville Beaches.
We can also buy single family rental properties within the four municipalities within Duval County which are outside of Jacksonville’s city limits: Baldwin, Atlantic …

Investors are pinpointing the ideal locations for their residential rental property investments by looking at detailed historical data as it relates to certain common risk factors that could effect a rental properties long term performance. This underwriting practice utilizes a Relative Risk Index to vet and underwrite residential income property deals. This preliminary residential rental property underwriting technique is a unique benefit for both individual investors and lenders as a way to mitigate risk and increase the likelihood of long term successful investment.
Wall Street institutions, private equity and hedge funds have been internally using sophisticated modeling …

The most significant real estate investment trends of 2013  will be the tremendous amount of institutional capital that will continue to be directed into single-family residential rentals.
The single-family rental market has always existed with some 12 million homes for rent but there never has been this much interest and capital moving into a national institutionally-managed, single-family rentals.  It has been estimated that private-equity firms and other institutional investors have raised $6 billion to $8 billion to invest in this new asset class. Numerous private-equity firms have crowded into the business looking for a way …