The Rise In Phishing Attacks And What It Means For The Real Estate Industry

Anna, an administrative assistant with a real estate investment company, found herself working remotely from home, due to her company’s COVID-19 office shutdown. Supplied with a company-issued laptop and password access to her company’s IT system, Anna continued working on her everyday tasks, which ranged from reviewing paperwork and forms, to keeping track of the company’s various active and passive real estate investments.

Protecting Senior Investors: What is a Trusted Contact?

In February of 2018, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) adopted a new rule regarding the financial exploitation of specified adults. Rule 4512 requires brokerage firms to ask their clients to provide the name and contact information for a trusted contact person. A trusted contact is someone that you allow your brokerage to contact in certain circumstances such as possible financial exploitation, fraud, or if your broker-dealer cannot reach you.

Best Ways To Invest In Real Estate

Investing in real estate can be a great long-term investment strategy. It adds diversification to any portfolio and provides an opportunity to own a tangible asset. But if you are going to invest in real estate, is there a suitable way?

Advice On Real Estate Investing

Interested In Real Estate Investments? Consider This Advice, First Many blogs, white papers, and even radio commercials, discuss the wonderful benefits of dealing with real estate. To read these articles, or listen to these exciting announcers, you might come away with the idea that all you need to do to make a killing in real estate is to put your money into an asset, and come away with thousands upon thousands of dollars.

How To Calculate Return On Real Estate Investments

Calculating the return on your real estate investment property is important to understand how well it is performing. There are a number of metrics used by real estate professionals to determine the performance of a property. In this article, we’ll start with some return on investment (ROI) basics and then go into calculations that get progressively more involved, as we factor in more components of return.

What Is Crowdfunding, And How Is Realized Different?

Real estate crowdfunding is a topic that has garnered a good deal of attention in the past few years. Positioned as the channel that allows anyone to access an investment that previously had significant barriers to entry, crowdfunding is hailed for its ability to unlock the real estate market for the average investor. Through a simple internet transaction, investors can allocate money into real estate assets or investment funds that formerly were only available to well-heeled and well-connected investors. While Realized is similar to crowdfunding in that we also provide access to large commercial real estate investments and utilize the internet for marketing, that’s where the similarities end.

Are April & May Rents Setting Unrealistic Expectations?

April and May’s rents are down compared to the previous year but not by a wide margin. However, with uncertainty about the economy due to the pandemic, it’s unclear what to expect in the coming months. Unemployment benefits can’t sustain out-of-work residents indefinitely. The path forward isn’t entirely clear at this point.

Landlord, No More: A Look At Passive Real Estate Investing

Let’s say that you own a rental house, residential duplex, self-storage facility, or office building. And, let’s also say that, while you appreciate the cash flow you’re receiving from the property, you’re tired of the trash, tenant, toilet, and management issues that are part and parcel with ownership. Basically, you like the returns, but dislike being a landlord.

A Tale Of Two Cap Rates

Cap rates are loaded ratios. Despite being one of the most commonly used metrics to evaluate and compare real estate investment opportunities, cap rates have their flaws and limitations. You have to unpack them to understand the value they are trying to represent. To gain a deeper understanding of cap rates, we’ll start by describing what they are and then move into comparisons.

Tax Basis in Real Estate Part 1 - What is Basis?

One of the first questions, and frankly one of the most important, I typically ask real estate owners who are considering or are in the midst of a 1031 exchange is “what is your adjusted basis in the property being sold?” I dare say that 95 percent of the real estate owners I speak with on a daily basis don’t know the answer to this question.

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