The real estate markets that have the highest populations tend to have the highest housing prices. Think of cities like New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle. Just a few years ago, these bustling metros were packed to the brim with tech workers, all of which contributed to housing shortages and sky-high home prices. Now, with remote work the new ... Show More
Jul 29
How Much One “Ordinary” Rental Property Has Made Me in the Last 6 Years
Real estate investors often talk about cash flow, or the profits from flipping a house, but rarely the total impact that buying a rental property and holding it for multiple years can have on your net worth. If you’ve never done the math, it’s significant. In many cases, a single ... Show More
34m 23s
Jul 27
The “Repeatable” Strategy That Helped Him Buy 6 Rentals in 6 Months (Working a W-2)
Worried you’ll come up short in retirement? When Brian Waters ran the numbers, he realized he was still decades away from being able to leave his nine-to-five. He needed a lifeline, and he found one in real estate investing. In just five years, he has scaled to 20 rental properti ... Show More
38m 4s
Jun 2022
11: Migration, Inflation, and Why Big Cities Are Losing Their "Desirable" Status w/Redfin’s Taylor Marr
Over the past two years, home prices have looked as if they’re never going to drop. With record-low interest rates, a newly formed remote work culture, and millennials at peak homebuying age, who would have thought that lower home prices would come so soon. Although traditionally ... Show More
58m 9s
Aug 2022
25: How Work-From-Home “Hotspots” Drove the Housing Market Even Higher
What do work-from-home employees and the housing market have to do with each other? Surprisingly, a lot. At the start of 2020, as the first lockdowns were rolling in, many companies made the wise decision to allow their workers to temporarily work-from-home. As temporary became s ... Show More
34m 40s
Apr 2022
171: The 2022 Housing Market Explained: Is Now a Good Time to Buy? w/Dave Meyer
The 2022 housing market is off to a wild start. We’ve seen home inventory at decade lows, interest rates have finally started to rise, and more homebuyers are looking at fewer houses. As a real estate investor, it can be tough to navigate a market like this, especially when you’v ... Show More
57m 39s
Aug 2023
1049 - Surprising Migration Trends Show That Movers are Going to These Markets by Lindsay Frankel
Remote work, rapidly rising rents in some cities, and a desire for more amenities are all factors driving Americans to relocate—but the areas drawing the most new renters are shifting, according to the new Rent.com migration report for the first quarter of 2023.
Back in January, ... Show More
10m 42s
Aug 2024
US Election: The American housing dream
As prices for homes and rents continue to rise in many towns and cities, it's one of the key issues for voters.In 2023 the average price of a home in the United States was $495,100, six per cent higher than a year earlier, though the signs are prices may now be starting to fall. ... Show More
17m 32s
Apr 2022
2: What the Average Homebuyer Can Learn from House-Hungry Investors
The housing market relies on many things: market sentiment, Federal Reserve policy, supply, demand, interest rates, inflation—the list goes on and on. For most homebuyers, it may seem almost impossible to crack the code of when (or if) it makes sense to buy a home or rental prope ... Show More
1h 1m
Nov 2022
51: Huge Concessions, Cheap Labor, and Where Sellers are Hurting Most w/Niyi Adewole and Ryan Blackstone
The housing market has shown homebuyers both fierce love and abuse throughout 2022. At the start of the year, offering anything other than twenty thousand above asking was seen as an insult to a seller. Now, the seller is offering you a foot massage on your way into their open ho ... Show More
50m 18s