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It has been a while since we've sent out our Dispatch, but that doesn't
mean we haven't been busy writing. We have two new articles that we
would like to share with you, content that we hope will help you to
become more effective and successful real estate investors.
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Real Estate Investors: A Lesson in Clarity
Recently, I was conducting the last class in my course on real estate
investment analysis that I teach in Columbia’s MSRED program. I had assigned my
55 students a series of case studies (much like those in my book, Mastering Real Estate Investment) and told them to
build financial pro forms and discuss the reasoning behind their
analyses. After reading and commenting on all those analyses, I felt
there was one overarching theme on which I wanted to focus my final
remarks to the troops: The theme was “clarity.”
Trying to reduce a course to a single word might seem unrealistic
(because it is), but I really had more than one angle on the notion of
clarity in mind. Even combined, those notions would not replace the
real content of a course in investment analysis, but they might express
some essential principles that are sine qua non — “without which,
nothing” — for investors. Continue
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5
Mistakes Every Real Estate Investor Should Avoid
In my nearly 30 years of providing analysis software to real estate
investors, and almost a decade of writing books and teaching real
estate finance at Columbia University, I’ve had the opportunity to talk
with thousands of people who were analyzing potential real estate
investments. Some of these people were seasoned professionals, many
were beginners or students, but just about all were highly motivated to
analyze their deals to gain the maximum advantage.
I’ve seen some tremendous creativity in their analyses, but I’ve also
seen some huge missteps. Here are some of the pitfalls you will want to
be sure to avoid.
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A
Bright Spot for Real Estate Investors
If you're tired of hearing all the doom and gloom about real estate,
and don't want to take dramamine to help you keep your lunch down as
you watch the stock sticker, then there is a "sweet spot" you shouldn't
overlook: The multifamily housing market.
This will come as no surprise to seasoned real estate investors. When
anyone with a pulse can buy (and keep) a house, apartment demand
declines. When the pendulum swings the other way, then all those
potential buyers become renters, and the apartment market soars.
According to a report this month by the U.S. Commerce Department and
HUD, nationwide housing starts rose 15 percent in September, the
biggest gain in residential construction since April of 2010. Looking
behind the numbers reveals that most of that gain came from apartment
construction. This news is consistent with what we've been hearing for
several months about the strength of the multi-family sector.
With demand for apartments strong, this sector should be on your radar.
We noted this in an earlier blog post which we just updated with a comment linking to a Bloomberg
article noting the surge in apartment construction.
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