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How Long Can You Lock in a Mortgage Rate?
Mortgage rates took center stage in financial headlines in 2022 after rising to highs not seen in decades.
How to Sell Farmland Without a Realtor
Farmland owners who choose to sell their land holdings often engage brokers or realtors with extensive experience selling farmland to help them navigate the sale process.
What is a Multi-Asset Exchange?
Completing a 1031 exchange often means navigating a twisting, turning road that’s often fraught with speed bumps.
What is Real Estate Wholesaling, and How Does it Work?
Real estate wholesaling is not new, but it seems to be increasingly popular. The recent increase in wholesalers may be due to the emergence of some more prominent players in a traditionally fragmented field. Wholesaling involves a person or company acting as a middleman between a seller and a buyer, usually without using their own money. The wholesaler typically starts by identifying a potential seller - often a homeowner that owns a distressed or rundown property. The owner wants to sell but either can't or is reluctant to invest in fixing the property up for the maximum return. In many cases, the owner urgently needs to sell.
What is Pro Forma in Real Estate?
The Oxford Language Dictionary definition of pro forma is "done or produced as a matter of form" or "a standard document or financial statement.” Similarly, the original Latin meaning is “for the sake of the form.” In contemporary usage, a Pro Forma is a cash flow projection for real estate investments. Pro Formas are typically forward-looking estimates of financial results. Real estate investors rely on the pro forma to analyze potential income and expenses.
How Does Depreciation Work When You Sell a Rental Property?
There are many costs involved when selling a rental property. One of those is related to depreciation. Where depreciation giveth, it also taketh away. The IRS will claw back some of the depreciation expense taken during the holding period. This isn’t just a simple number. Some calculations are involved in determining the amount of depreciation that investors must pay back at the time of sale.
Is Raw Land a Good Investment?
Real estate investors have a multitude of choices - residential rentals, other commercial properties like office buildings and hospitality centers, retail operations, and more. Every class and sector offers potential pros and cons. Investors can also decide to purchase real estate-backed securities or fractional interests in asset portfolios by investing in REITs (Real Estate Investment Trusts) and DSTs (Delaware Statutory Trusts).
What is the Difference Between Raw Land and Vacant Land?
People with longtime roots in one place may often drive by a new subdivision or retail strip center and wish they’d had the foresight to purchase that particular piece of land 20 years ago when it was still located far from their hometown’s urban core. Buying land can be a risky investment – especially raw land that’s located well outside of currently developed areas. Let’s take a closer look at the differences between raw and vacant land and some important considerations that come with both types of investments.
What Can Offset Depreciation Recapture?
Depreciation can be an extremely favorable and advantageous tax benefit for real estate investors. Depreciation is a tax deduction that allows property owners to lower the costs associated with purchasing and making improvements to income-producing properties. This deduction lowers the amount of taxable income (but not cash flow) generated from rental properties.
What is Title Vesting?
For many people, buying a home or an investment property is the culmination of years of dreaming, hard work, and saving. Purchasing real property comes with some important decisions, most notably, how to hold the title for the residence or asset. This decision, known as title vesting, affects the legal rights of the property owners, as well as directs the flow of payments if the asset is sold.
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