Commercial real estate experts predict strong activity in 2019 - Dayton Business Journal

Commercial real estate experts predict strong activity in 2019 - Dayton Business Journal: Commercial real estate experts in the Miami Valley are predicting a busy 2019.

Five Reasons Why Your Real Estate Investments Aren't Earning You Money

Five Reasons Why Your Real Estate Investments Aren't Earning You Money: I recently spoke with an investor who told me that he has $500,000 in cash and is looking for the right investment property to acquire. As usual, I asked my standard set of questions: What are your goals, time horizon, risk tolerance and experience level? His responses were stable cash flow with some potential for appreciation, long-term time horizon of 5 to 10 years, not tolerant of high-risk investments and his real estate experience was limited to the purchase of his single-family residence. These are fairly common answers for new investors who are looking to steadily grow their wealth. So far, so good.

Why so many property listings advertised as ‘bargains’ sell above the asking price - MarketWatch

Why so many property listings advertised as ‘bargains’ sell above the asking price - MarketWatch: In Tuscon, Ariz., when a home listing is described as a “bargain,” that’s a pretty clear indication that the price is in fact a steal. But in Cape Coral, Fla. that’s far from the case.

A new report from real-estate website Trulia examined how often listings advertised as a bargain were, indeed, bargains. The analysis had some good news for people in one of the country’s most competitive housing markets: Homebuyers had the best shot of finding truthful listings in San Jose, Calif.

In the Silicon Valley city, more than 86% of “bargain” listings were actually priced below the home’s estimated value. Other cities with popular housing markets, such as San Francisco and Seattle, also had a high percentage of true bargains.

Real Estate Technology: Try, Try Again - The New York Times

Real Estate Technology: Try, Try Again - The New York Times: Perhaps the most prescient scene in the futuristic 1960s cartoon “The Jetsons” was when George, the eager technophile, had to run as fast as he could to stay on a newfangled treadmill gone haywire.

It’s an apt metaphor for some technology today, particularly in the real estate industry, which is quick to jump on the newest disruptive innovation, but often ends up with the next Bluetooth-enabled toaster instead.

Real Estate Markets Cooling Across The Country, And It's Not Just The Winter Effect

Real Estate Markets Cooling Across The Country, And It's Not Just The Winter Effect: In December 2008, almost a decade ago exactly, Case-Shiller posted a record 18% price drop in home values across the country as the subprime mortgage crisis reached fever pitch.

After a slow and painful recession period, economic prosperity pushed the market out of recovery mode and into a full-fledged real estate boom characterized by double-digit price growth, rock-bottom inventory and surging buyer demand over the past few years. It's been the lowest of lows, followed by a glorified golden age for the country's trillion-dollar residential real estate business.

In the wake of these tales of two extremes, it’s hard to remember what a more neutral market even looks like. But a new normal, one that’s neither ice cold nor fiery red, does appear to be taking shape.

Home Depot signals U.S. housing demand slowing | Reuters

Home Depot signals U.S. housing demand slowing | Reuters: The warning from the country’s top seller of power tools, flooring and lawnmowers overshadowed its stronger-than-expected third-quarter results and a higher annual sales forecast.

Why a Housing Cool-Off May Leave Consumers Unperturbed This Time - Bloomberg

Why a Housing Cool-Off May Leave Consumers Unperturbed This Time - Bloomberg: In a post-financial-crisis world, the phrase "housing market slowdown" has a ring of impending disaster.

But as the $220 trillion global housing market starts to cool off in some places against a backdrop of monetary policy normalization, economists at Eurizon SLJ Capital offer a reason for calm. Because price declines are hitting extremely expensive cities, they might not drag down consumption the way standard theory would predict. We summarize their research below

More Americans are using real estate agents than ever before | 2018-11-12 | HousingWire

More Americans are using real estate agents than ever before | 2018-11-12 | HousingWire: A new Harris Insights housing consumer study, which was underwritten by the California Association of Realtors, The CE Shop and REAL Trends, shows a full 90% of consumers use real estate agents to buy and sell their homes. This is a survey high, and is up 5 percentage points from the last study in 2014 and up 9 percentage points from the first study conducted in 2001.

And despite fears that Millennials are replacing real estate agents with technology, the study found that is not the case, and 91% of those ages 18 to 34 used real estate agents in their transaction. That number is slightly higher among Gen Xers, or those ages 35 to 44 years old, at 94%.

Amazon HQ2 rumors rattle New York and DC real estate markets

Amazon HQ2 rumors rattle New York and DC real estate markets: - It hasn't been announced yet. It wouldn't happen for months, if not years after it was announced. But Amazon's possible arrival in Northern Virginia and Queens, New York, has already sent shockwaves through surrounding real estate markets.

Mara Gemond, a longtime Arlington, Virginia, realtor, never did much business in the dingy cluster of office buildings next to Reagan Airport known as Crystal City — until news broke that Amazon might be splitting its 50,000-employee second headquarters between there and Long Island City in New York.

A Fifth of China's Housing Is Empty. That's 50 Million Homes

A Fifth of China's Housing Is Empty. That's 50 Million Homes: Chinese President Xi Jinping’s mantra that homes should be for living in is falling on deaf ears, with tens of millions of apartments and houses standing empty across the country.

Soon-to-be-published research will show roughly 22 percent of China’s urban housing stock is unoccupied, according to Professor Gan Li, who runs the main nationwide study. That adds up to more than 50 million empty homes, he said.

As U.S. New-Home Sales Tumble, It's Time To Reimagine Modern Modular Housing (Part 1)

As U.S. New-Home Sales Tumble, It's Time To Reimagine Modern Modular Housing (Part 1): As personal wealth increases for some, so does the cost of housing. According to recently released government data, single-family home sales in September tumbled 5.5 percent month-over-month, an estimated 0.6 percent drop, falling to their weakest pace since December 2016. The drop is attributed to increasing constraint on buyers due to rising property prices, higher mortgage rates and, most significantly, the dearth of affordable listings.

Foreign Investor Burnout Hits Miami Real Estate

Foreign Investor Burnout Hits Miami Real Estate: Foreign home buyers have hit the pause button in south Florida.

Between August 2017 and July 2018, the most recent period for sales data by Florida Realtors, foreign buyers purchased $22.9 billion worth of Florida real estate, a 5% decline from the previous 12-month level.

One home got 14 offers. Another, none. What’s up with Sacramento’s real estate market? | The Sacramento Bee

One home got 14 offers. Another, none. What’s up with Sacramento’s real estate market? | The Sacramento Bee: A spacious Rocklin home sits on the market for weeks with no offers. At the same time, a tiny bungalow in South Land Park gets 14 offers immediately.

What gives?

Knox real estate outside investors own icons like First Tennessee Plaza

Knox real estate outside investors own icons like First Tennessee Plaza: “Built by Knoxvillians but owned by out of town investors.”

That has been a common trend in commercial real estate in the last decade and the trend is continuing.

Challenging farmland expropriation | Farms.com

Challenging farmland expropriation | Farms.com: A recent expropriation scenario involving the McCann family of Milton, Ont. rekindled interest in the ag and legal communities about how to protect farmland.

The seventh-generation McCann family created an online petition in April to halt the Halton Catholic District School Board’s plan to use 20 acres of their land to build a secondary school. The petition garnered over 37,000 signatures within a six-month period. The school board has since decided to use other land for the school.

Farms.com connected with Robert W. Scriven, barrister and solicitor at Oldfield, Greaves, D'Agostino & Scriven, a law firm based in Waterloo which specializes in agricultural law, to learn more about challenging farmland expropriation applications.

Argentines arrested over South Florida, NYC real estate deals | Miami Herald

Argentines arrested over South Florida, NYC real estate deals | Miami Herald: After arresting four people — including the owner of a Miami-area realty firm — authorities in Argentina appear to have unraveled the mystery of a $65 million property empire that included luxury condos in South Florida and New York City, as they pursue a major corruption case against ex-president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.

The four people arrested by federal police in Argentina last month are Elizabeth Ortiz Municoy, an Argentine national who runs an international realty business that until recently operated a branch in Surfside; Sergio Todisco, Municoy’s ex-husband and a clothing manufacturer; Carolina Pochetti, the widow of a former top aide to the Kirchner family; and Carlos Cortez, a businessman who travels between Argentina and South Florida.

Five Lessons From Jeff Bezos For Real Estate Leaders

Five Lessons From Jeff Bezos For Real Estate Leaders: As the head of an independent real estate brokerage, I know that it’s all too easy to get swept up in the headlines about which firm is doing what and which technology is coming online to simplify this and that. And regardless of how far the real estate industry has come, and for all the bells and whistles we tout, at the end of the day real estate is a service industry: The primary focus needs to be on the customer, not the competition.

Home prices continue to cool, in a sign the housing market is slowing down

Home prices continue to cool, in a sign the housing market is slowing down

New AI tech identifies opportunities in commercial real estate | ISRAEL21c

New AI tech identifies opportunities in commercial real estate | ISRAEL21c: Enter Skyline AI,�which uses artificial intelligence, machine learning and big data to predict what a commercial real-estate investment is worth today and how it may perform in the future.

The Tel Aviv-based startup raised $18 million in August – just four months after launching to the public – on top of a $3 million seed round last year. The new financing came from Sequoia Capital and TLV Partners with participation from JLL Spark.

Next target for improved data analysis: real estate - Pensions & Investments

Next target for improved data analysis: real estate - Pensions & Investments: Technology is growing in importance with asset owners as a way of doing more with fewer resources and increasing returns.

"Technology empowers our analytics," said Ashbel C. Williams Jr., executive director and chief investment officer, Florida State Board of Administration, Tallahassee, which oversees money management of the $160.4 billion pension fund.

Offshore power still has to cross farmland | The Scottish Farmer

Offshore power still has to cross farmland | The Scottish Farmer

Release of housing data opens door to innovation in real estate industry, realtors say | Financial Post

Release of housing data opens door to innovation in real estate industry, realtors say | Financial Post: Realtor Daniel Steinfeld has wanted to post home sales data on his business’s password-protected website for as long as he can remember, but it took a seven-year court battle between the Competition Bureau and the Toronto Real Estate Board for him and other realtors to land the right to publish the numbers.