ValiantCEO | Oct 28, 2024
Real estate is a proven path to building wealth, and turnkey real estate offers a particularly appealing option for new investors. A turnkey property is fully renovated, ready to rent, and often includes professional property management. This hands-off approach simplifies becoming a real estate investor, allowing beginners to focus on the financial benefits without requiring direct involvement in renovations or resident management.
Impact Wealth | Oct 11, 2024
Chasing cash flow might seem like the smart move, but it’s often the shortcut that keeps real estate investors from seeing the bigger financial picture. After all, earning a steady monthly income from your properties is the perfect way to measure success. Or is it?
What if this focus on cash flow is holding you back from realizing your full investment potential? While positive cash flow is important, it’s worth considering whether it should be the primary focus, especially if you want to build lasting wealth.
Grapevine, TX, September 20, 2024 — REI Nation, one of the largest turnkey real estate investment companies in the U.S., is proud to announce the acquisition of a new 10,126 square foot office building in Grapevine, Texas. Situated just minutes from DFW Airport, the new building establishes a permanent Texas office for REI Nation and its property management arm, PPMG of Texas, further solidifying the company’s commitment to its clients, residents, vendors, team, and continued growth in one of the largest metro areas in the country.
"This building is more than just an office; it’s an investment in this team, the future of the company, and our footprint in the 4th largest metro in the country," said Ryan Flannery, VP of Acquisitions and Head of REI Nation’s Texas office. "Purchasing this building represents a long-term commitment to our clients, residents, vendors and our team, providing the space and resources we need to continue growing and thriving."
Forbes | Aug 26, 2024
Intense collaboration and customization are often a hallmark behind successful business partnerships. But getting collaboration right can be surprisingly challenging — and in some cases, even the most well-intentioned collaborations can fail.
But for many service providers and suppliers, significant investment in customization can be out of reach. One approach that can still provide great value is turnkey solutions. Here’s how turnkey solutions can deliver meaningful value, without requiring as in-depth of a partnership.
LA Weekly | Aug 12, 2024
Owning and managing rental properties can be a great way to generate passive income, but it also comes with responsibilities. As a landlord, keeping your properties well-maintained through preventative measures and addressing emergencies promptly is key to protecting your investment, keeping tenants happy, and avoiding legal issues.
Getting the balance right between preventative maintenance and handling emergency repairs is an essential rental property management skill for any landlord to develop.
Global Banking & Finance Review | Jun 25, 2024
There’s an overemphasis on cash flow in today’s real estate investor community. While positive monthly cash flow is important, over-focusing on it can severely limit investors’ opportunities and long-term returns. Investors must balance desires for immediate returns with planning for impactful long-term growth and stability.
Understanding drivers of long-term property appreciation, rent appreciation, mortgage principal paydown, depreciation tax benefits, and equity growth through both natural appreciation and borrowed equity is key. While positive cash flow provides immediate returns, it’s the long-term value and steady benefit of monthly rental revenue that best secure a consistently profitable real estate investment over time.
REINation CEO Kent Clothier Sr. said, “Cash flow is a snapshot, a moment in time. Appreciation and the accumulation of true wealth happen over years, even decades with rental properties. Don’t let a myopic view limit your success.”
Disrupt Magazine | Jun 4, 2024
Real estate is one of the best long-term investments for building wealth and generating passive income. Rental properties can provide steady cash flow while the property appreciates in value over time.
Forbes stated, “Appreciation, or the rising of home prices over time, is how the majority of wealth is built in real estate. This is the “home run” you hear of when people make a large windfall of money. While prices fluctuate, over the long run real estate values have always gone up, always, and there is no reason to think that is going to change.
However, to accurately assess the profitability and return on a rental property investment, it’s important to look beyond just the purchase price and rental income. Calculating the true return on investment (ROI) requires a thorough analysis of all the costs and benefits.
Realty Today | Apr 17, 2024
Investing in rental properties outside of your local area can be lucrative and enable investors to take advantage of strong housing markets in other parts of the country. However, being a landlord from a distance comes with its own set of unique obstacles to navigate. Overcoming the challenges of out-of-state real estate investing requires careful planning, the right local team, and effective systems to manage your properties remotely. When done correctly, remote real estate frees investors to dream big.
Realty Times | Mar 14, 2024
Out-of-state rental properties can provide passive income when managed properly, but effective remote oversight requires thoughtful planning. Self-managing owners face numerous pitfalls and lack professional support. By contrast, done-for-you companies like REI Nation apply proven systems to maximize returns while minimizing owner burdens across large portfolios.
This article navigates the complex territory of investing in out-of-state rental properties, contrasting the hands-on approach of self-managing owners with the streamlined, worry-free model offered by professional management companies like REI Nation. We'll explore the inherent challenges of DIY property management and how specialized firms can significantly reduce the burden on investors, ensuring a smoother, more profitable experience.
New York Weekly | Feb 15, 2024 | Chiara Accardi
Texas is a good destination for out-of-state real estate investors, with major metro areas like Dallas and Houston offering affordable properties with strong rental demand. For turnkey properties in particular – rental homes that are purchased move-in ready with tenants and professional property management in place – both Dallas and Houston present lucrative opportunities.
But investors may be wondering – which Texas market is better for turnkey real estate? REI Nation compares the pros and cons of Dallas and Houston’s rental markets, demographics, economy.
Microsoft Start | Jan 30, 2024 | Mia Rodriguez
When looking to build wealth through real estate, investors have two main options - turnkey or conventional investing. Both come with pros and cons, so it's important to weigh your goals, timeline, budget and risk tolerance.
"We started out buying run-down properties, fixing them up, and renting them out ourselves," said REI Nation founder and CEO Kent Clothier Sr. "It was rewarding but extremely time- and labor-intensive. We knew there had to be an easier way for investors to benefit from residential real estate without all the hassles."
The answer was turnkey - a hands-off approach that allows investors to own rental properties without handling any of the legwork involved. A turnkey company like REI Nation purchases, renovates and rents the property, then transfers ownership to the investor under a triple-net lease agreement.
So, what are the key differences between turnkey and conventional real estate investing? And how do you decide which strategy is better for your goals?
Real Estate Today | Jan 24, 2024 | Aize Perez
Investing in rental properties remains one of the most reliable ways to build long-term wealth. And with today’s interest rate environment, investors can still capitalize on real estate. However, obtaining financing poses unique hurdles when purchasing out-of-state investment properties.
“Out-of-state investment properties can be more challenging to finance because lenders have to manage risk without local market familiarity,” said REI Nation CEO Kent Clothier Sr, an industry veteran in rental real estate finance. “Working with specialized lenders is key. They understand factors like cross-state landlord-tenant laws, long-distance property oversight, market analytics and appropriate loan products. Guiding investors to the right financing partners ensures smooth transactions plus portfolios tailored to their current assets and future investment goals.”
While securing financing for a primary home follows pretty standard protocols, investment loans differ greatly. And if you live in a different state than your rental property, several additional considerations come into play around loans, terms, qualification criteria and more.
New York, August 2, 2023 — Madison International Realty, a leading real estate private equity firm, today announced it has agreed to commit up to $150 million in strategic growth capital to REI Nation, a vertically integrated single family rental (SFR) operator with over 7,600 homes under management.
In line with our core values of "Give Superior Customer Service" and "Never Stop Improving," REI Nation is releasing results from a recent survey administered to residents of Premier Property Management Group (PPMG). PPMG is the property management wing of REI Nation's suite of turnkey real estate services, offered to investors of long-term single-family rentals.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — August 25, 2022 — Hero’s Home, Inc., a charitable nonprofit founded by real estate investors in the U.S., and Operation Homefront, a national nonprofit serving America’s military families, today announced they will award a mortgage-free home to a veteran family in Memphis, Tenn., and prepare them to become successful homeowners. The home will be fully renovated by REI Nation, one of the largest turnkey real estate companies in the U.S.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — July 13, 2022 — REI Nation, one of the largest turnkey real estate investment companies in the U.S., today announced its half-year 2022 single-family rental performance metrics. During the first half of the year, the company paid its single-family rental investors more than $42 million in net rental income, a year-over-year increase of 19%. By year-end 2022, REI Nation expects its net rental income payments to top $80 million, a year-over-year increase of 9.9%.
MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 4, 2022 — REI Nation, one of the largest passive, turnkey real estate investment companies in the U.S., today announced its Q1 2022 single-family rental performance metrics across its 13-market footprint. The company increased its year-over-year single-family rental sales to investors by 29% with 270 in Q1 2022 compared with 210 in Q1 2021. During Q1 2022, REI Nation completed 244 renovations with the majority of activity occurring in Memphis, Dallas, Little Rock, and Oklahoma City.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Feb. 15, 2022 — REI Nation, one of the largest turnkey real estate investment companies in the U.S., today announced its 2021 single-family rental performance metrics across its 13-market footprint. For full-year 2021 reporting, the company saw a year-over-year increase of 31% in single-family rental homes purchased and renovated, with 754 in 2020 compared to 991 in 2021. The number of homes REI Nation contracted to buy in 2021 increased year over year by 54% with 1,284 in 2021 compared with 833 in 2020.
Funding Will Increase the Purchase and Renovation of Single-Family Rental Homes
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Nov. 10, 2021 — REI Nation, one of the largest turnkey real estate investment companies in the U.S., today announced it has closed on a $16M funding round and surpassed 7,000 properties under management in 13 markets. The investment round, which closed on October 27, exceeded its initial goal of $15M by more than $1M.
Premier Property Management Group Grows as Remote Real Estate Investing Increases
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Sept. 14, 2021 — REI Nation, the largest turnkey real estate investment company in the U.S., today announced it is expanding its property management services across its existing 11 markets and adding Austin and Nashville to its footprint. The company’s property management division, Premier Property Management Group, which was established to support REI Nation owner-investors, will now offer its services to any owners of single-family rental properties, regardless of their affiliation with REI Nation. In addition to the new Nashville and Austin presence, the company operates in Memphis, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio, Huntsville, Birmingham, Tuscaloosa, Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Little Rock and St. Louis.
Company Offers Single-Family Rental Properties to Investors
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — April 15, 2021 — REI Nation, the largest turnkey real estate investment company in the U.S., today announced it is expanding its Alabama footprint beyond Huntsville and Birmingham to include Tuscaloosa. REI Nation connects real estate investors with single-family rental properties, upgrades the homes for maximum rental income, secures the renters, and provides ongoing property management as part of its complete turnkey services for remote real estate investing. The company will begin offering Tuscaloosa rental homes to its investors across the globe as early as this May.
Turnkey Real Estate Investment Company Offers Remote Investing Services
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — March 5, 2021 — REI Nation, the largest turnkey real estate investment company in the U.S., today announced it is expanding its presence in Alabama with the opening of Birmingham, following the launch of Huntsville in January of this year. REI Nation connects real estate investors with single-family rental properties, upgrades the homes for maximum rental income, secures the renters, and provides ongoing property management as part of its complete turnkey services for remote real estate investing.
Turnkey Real Estate Investment Company Launches Alabama Footprint
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — January, 26, 2021 — REI Nation, the largest turnkey real estate investment company in the U.S., today announced it is moving into the Alabama market with its expansion into Huntsville. REI Nation connects real estate investors with rental properties, upgrades the properties for maximum rental income, secures the renters, and provides ongoing property management as part of its complete turnkey services for remote real estate investing. The company will begin offering Huntsville rental properties to its growing base of investors across the world by March 1, 2021.
WSJ | January 7, 2020 | Peter Grant
Real estate startups exploit new technologies and data on house rentals developed after the housing bust:
Buying a home as an investment property has long been too complex or daunting a
process for all but the wealthy. Thanks to a group of real estate startups, that may be
changing.
The companies enable individuals to assemble a portfolio of rental homes throughout
the country relatively hassle-free. Without ever visiting the properties, investors can buy
and manage homes with a few clicks of a mouse or taps on the phone.
Turnkey Real Estate Investment Company Offers Remote Investing Services
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — December 22, 2020 — REI Nation, the largest turnkey real estate investment company in the U.S., today announced it is expanding its presence in Texas with the opening of its San Antonio market, adding to the existing Dallas and Houston footprint. REI connects real estate investors with single-family rental properties, upgrades the homes for maximum rental income, secures the renters, and provides ongoing property management as part of its complete turnkey services for remote real estate investing.
Forbes | Sep 8, 2020 | Jason Hsiao
One of the most common questions I get is how to invest in real estate when not enough down payment is saved up to purchase a property, especially in expensive states such as California or New York. Sure, with programs like FHA you can put as little as 3.5% down, but in competitive markets, your offer will likely go straight to the recycling bin. Here are eight ways to get exposure and diversify into real estate, even without having six figures saved up.
Inman | March 16, 2020 | Lillian Dickerson
Going remote isn't just a new trend in the standard workforce — it's also on the rise among real estate investors:
As new kinds of technologies have allowed greater connectivity, individuals can work from home more than ever before.
It’s not only the average office worker who’s working from home, though — over the past few years, remote buyers of real estate owned (REO) properties have gradually increased, and more remote-focused investment companies and increased technology are empowering individual investors to buy out-of-state.
REI Nation, a family-run investment property portfolio management company traditionally focused on passive investors, started assisting remote investors once the internet became more pervasive.
HousingWire | March 4, 2020 | Auction.com
Access to Nationwide Inventory, Investing Services Helps Investors Buy Beyond Their Backyard: After a successful Denver-area home flip in 2016, newly minted real estate investors Scott Stuber and Tyrone Velasquez realized they could get more bang for their buck investing elsewhere.
“We were looking for a more affordable market. Denver has gotten so expensive. You’ll find a house at the top of the market that needs to be fully rehabbed — there’s no potential profit there,” said Stuber, who now invests full-time, running Nuremberg Properties with Velasquez, his husband. “So we decided to look for more affordable markets that were being overlooked.”
Stuber and Velasquez are not alone in their quest to find overlooked markets that are more affordable and profitable for their real estate investing strategy.
Expensive home prices, high property taxes and anti-investor legislation are prompting a growing number of real estate investors to invest remotely outside where they live.
NuWire | April 8, 2019 | Lane Genik
Purchasing a commercial property is a big decision. It is a large purchase and needs to be managed well for the investment to be worth it for you. How a commercial property is managed can affect the value of the investment. A property can increase in value significantly just from being well managed, and of course the opposite is true as well.
New York Times | August 28, 2013 | Shaila Dewan
Neighborhoods across the country are being transformed, as houses built for homeowners are turned into rental properties. Residents of one such community in Memphis, Tenn., discuss the changes.
Beneath the spreading shade tree in Laura Holcomb’s front yard, there are some 70 varieties of hosta, stands of elephant ear and a Japanese maple. For the 17 years she has owned the brick house on Rose Trail Drive in the Hillshire subdivision, Ms. Holcomb has devoted herself to her home and garden.
Across the street, Carl Osborne and his family have been tenants for two years, moving in after the previous owner lost the house in a foreclosure. They are happy to have a decent place to call home but, like many renters, they have not done much to improve the appearance or join the community.
They are not alone: the family behind Ms. Holcomb, the one two doors down, and several in the cul-de-sac across the way are among the renters who have been supplanting homeowners in this blue-collar, suburban neighborhood as investors buy single-family homes and convert them to rentals.
“Used to, we knew our neighbors,” Ms. Holcomb said. Then she gestured toward the few remaining owner-occupied houses nearby. “Except for the two that have been here, I don’t know any of my neighbors.”
Across the country, a growing number of single-family rentals provide an option for many who lost their homes in the housing crash through foreclosure and for those who cannot obtain a mortgage under today’s tougher credit conditions. But the decline in homeownership is also changing many neighborhoods in profound ways, including reduced home values, lower voter turnout and political influence, less social stability and higher crime.
“When there are fewer homeowners, there is less ‘self-help,’ like park and neighborhood cleanup, neighborhood watch,” said William M. Rohe, a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who has just completed a review of current research on homeownership’s effects.
Even conscientious landlords and tenants invest less in their property than owner-occupants, he said. “Who’s going to paint the outside of a rental house? You’d almost have to be crazy.”
Despite signs of a recovery in the housing market, the country’s homeownership rate is still on the decline. In Memphis, it has fallen from roughly 65 percent of families in 2005 to about 55 percent now, according to the Census Bureau.
In hundreds of neighborhoods that once attracted first-time home buyers, investors have stepped in, buying up tens of thousands of homes for the rental market.
That has helped put paying tenants in a number of homes that were vacant or becoming eyesores. And many of the new tenants say they are eager to buy a home at the first opportunity and share the same concerns as homeowners about maintaining a safe and healthy neighborhood for their families and children.
But it has also raised the ire of some homeowners whose tidy subdivisions have changed, seemingly overnight, into a parade of strangers.
Hillshire was built in the late 1970s, its single-story, three-bedroom homes designed with no particular architectural pedigree, but not ticky-tacky identical. As a young mother of two, Ms. Holcomb, a medical practice administrator, chose the neighborhood because of its school district, paying $73,000 for her home in 1996.
The homeowners interviewed for this article tended to have steady middle-class incomes; several were retired military and police officers. Among the renters, who pay about $900 to $1,000 a month, were several construction and restaurant workers, with lower, less reliable earnings.
On a recent evening, parents pushed strollers and lawn mowers droned, children played on a tire swing and in one driveway, a longtime resident and his grandson tinkered with the fat tire of a slick red drag racer.
But there was a seedy underside. Jimmy Fumich, a homeowner and air-conditioner repairman, said he had been in court that day as a witness in an animal cruelty case against a neighbor, a renter, who had left a dog chained to a stop sign in the heat. She was already in trouble, he said, for breaking into an empty house on the block.
Mr. Fumich, who is Ms. Holcomb’s brother, mentioned a couple of meth houses and one that had been used as a brothel. All were rentals. Police department records show that major crime in the area, which does not include drug offenses, has actually gone down since spiking in 2010.
Still, Lea Ann Braswell, the captain of the neighborhood watch, recounted a recent episode in which a teenage girl, whose throat police said was cut by a young man carrying a sword, sought refuge on Ms. Braswell’s doorstep.
“We used to have hardly anything happen,” she said.
Asked how many renters were active with the neighborhood watch, Mr. Fumich said, “Zero.”
What is watchful to some, however, can feel intrusive to others. In the Osbornes’ home, one resident who keeps a close eye on things is referred to as “Nosy Neighbor.”
Carl Osborne, 26, who parks his boat and the DirecTV van he drives for work out front, rents the house across the street from Ms. Holcomb with his wife, two children and collection of exotic birds. “We just look for somewhere that’s safe for your kids,” he said. “That’s all I’m worried about, my kids and my wife.”
Hillshire does not have a homeowners association to enforce rules about uncut lawns, abandoned cars or rented units. And despite the changes, the neighborhood is largely trim and neat. But in cities like Las Vegas and Atlanta, where homeowners associations are more common, some have struggled with how to handle the influx of renters.
When investors started buying town homes in the small, Atlanta-area community of Austin Park, where units that once sold for over $100,000 now go for as low as $30,000, homeowners did not at first enforce a rental cap because they preferred landlords over vacant units that were no longer paying association dues.
After a summer of loud music, barking dogs, prostitutes and two tenants served with a murder warrant, the board changed its mind, said Joi Aikens, the president of the homeowners association.
Phasing out the rentals will take time, since the association has to wait until a home becomes vacant or is sold.
“You’re caught between ‘I want the dues paid’ and ‘I want a peaceable, nice existence,’ ” Ms. Aikens said.
Investors, however, say they have done a service to neighborhoods plagued by foreclosures, by helping to nudge home values upward and renovating and maintaining formerly vacant homes.
“Where we go in, we go in to fix that house up, and we’re the best-looking house on the street when that goes through,” said Kent Clothier Sr., the senior partner of REI Nation, which buys and renovates homes, sells them to mostly out-of-town investors, then manages the property for them. “That’s good for the neighborhood.”
REI Nation’s tenants stay two years on average, the company said, and about two out of 10 are former homeowners who lost their homes and want to maintain a similar lifestyle while they repair their credit.
Those reluctant renters dislike other renters almost as much as many homeowners do.
In a small cul-de-sac near Hillshire — or what in Memphis is called a “cove” — Rusby Amador cooked dinner for her three sons while waiting for her husband, a tile layer, to get home. One son was hosing off the walkway of their rented home. Two prodigious Boston ferns hung in the entry, and at the curb a colorful ceramic urn sat atop the mailbox.
“When the people buy a house, the people’s more nice,” Ms. Amador said.
“Renters, they don’t care about neighbors. We don’t know who’s going to move in. We worry all the time because we don’t know. I have children.”
Ms. Amador, 33, said the family had bought a new home in 2004 but had not checked the terms of the mortgage carefully, and the payments had grown too high. Now, she said, they are saving to buy again.
Across the street, their neighbor Monica Costict is the last homeowner left on the cove. She, too, is looking to get out of the neighborhood and buy somewhere else. “When we leave,” she said, “we’re going to rent out the house.”
CNBC | June 7, 2013 | By Diana Olick
For the past three years they have been swarming over the hardest hit housing markets, buying distressed properties in bulk and pushing prices higher by double digits. The idea for these investors was not to buy and flip, but to hold and rent. Now some investors say they have priced themselves out of the market.
"Higher prices are reducing returns on investment, and investors are responding by cutting back on their purchasing plans until conditions sort out," said Chris Clothier, a partner in MemphisInvest.com and Premier Property Management Group, which commissioned a national survey of investors conducted by ORC International. "Fewer foreclosures, rising property values and competition from hedge funds are making it tough to find good deals on distress sales."
Nearly half the investors surveyed said they planned to cut back on purchases of homes in the coming year; in a survey last August, just 30 percent said they planned to cut back. Only 20 percent of investors said they plan to increase purchases, compared with 39 percent who said they would last August.
All this could have a significant impact on the housing recovery.
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"If the investors gets sidelined—along with first-time buyers who are already sidelined—this housing market falls apart quickly," says Mark Hanson, a California-based housing and mortgage analyst. Hanson points to still-high levels of negative equity, which has kept many homeowners stuck in place.
Connecticut-based Carrington Mortgage Holdings, a hedge fund that had been buying distressed homes, recently stopped.
"We think the market is a little bit too frothy," said Carrington's Rick Sharga in an interview last month. Home prices are now up 12 percent from a year ago nationally, according to CoreLogic, but have risen far more greatly in formerly distressed markets where investors originally focused their purchases.
"The general consensus right now is that the bargains are drying up when it comes to buying foreclosed properties," adds Sharga.
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That is largely due to a lack of distressed homes for sale. The number of foreclosure sales in the first quarter of this year fell 22 percent from a year ago, according to RealtyTrac, a real estate website. The number of short sales, when the home is sold for less than the value of the mortgage, also fell, as rising prices provided less incentive for banks to agree to such deals. Some claim banks are actually holding onto repossessed homes, waiting for prices to rise higher.
Investors accounted for 19 percent of home sales in April, according to the National Association of Realtors, down from 24 percent in all of 2012. Investors include individual buyers as well as large hedge funds, but the hedge funds have been getting much of the attention, credited with juicing prices in the hardest hit housing markets like Phoenix and Las Vegas. Their so-called REO-to-Rent strategy (Real Estate Owned-to-Rent) has evolved into a new asset class, with two of the companies that engage in the practice going public this year as real estate investment trusts (REITs).
Still, the institutional investors are far from dominant players.
"Institutional investors play an extraordinarily small part," says Laurie Hawkes, president and COO of Phoenix-based American Residential Properties, which went public in May. "If you look at the number of dollars that are absolutely invested at this point, it's probably between 12 and 15 billion. On a house basis, that's about 120 thousand houses. If you think about the houses that have moved into the rental market due to subprime, it's about 5-6 million households, so if you do that math, it is a very small percentage."
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Hawkes says she sees no shortage of opportunity in the space, since the rental market has grown so large and the costs for investors are still lower than replacement costs. Rents are still rising along with home prices nationally, but they are falling in the markets where investors initially set their sights.
"Single-family rents in the cities surrounding Phoenix proper— where all the 'investors' bought all the foreclosures—have plunged 25 percent in the past 5 months," says Hanson, who recently visited the market, meeting with rental agents and investors.
Hanson also points to a high vacancy rate among investor rentals. Still, over half the investors surveyed by ORC International said they plan to hold them for at least five years. One third said they would hold for 10 years or more.
"Investors aren't going to dump a lot of properties into a market and run the risk of losing money or devaluating the rest of their portfolios," he says.
Wall Street Journal | February 25, 2013 | Nick Timiraos
Renters who opt for single-family homes over apartments are more likely to live in those homes for five years or longer and more interested in ultimately becoming a homeowner, according to a study released Monday.
Some 26% of single-family-home renters said they planned to live in their current rental for five years or more, compared with 22% for renters in multifamily buildings. Three out of every five single-family renters also said they planned to become a homeowner within five years, compared with just 44% of apartment renters.
More than 14 million renters live in single-family homes in the U.S., but over the past year the sector has received much more attention from private-equity funds and other institutional investors looking to build large pools of rental homes by purchasing foreclosures and other distressed properties at fire-sale prices.
While some critics have questioned the ability of these firms to effectively manage hundreds or thousands of single-family homes scattered across a city, the lower turnover of single-family tenants could help reduce costs for landlords.
The survey, conducted by ORC International for Premier Property Management, also found that a majority of apartment and single-family renters indicated that they rent because they enjoy the lifestyle, and not because they’re unable to get a mortgage. Less than one third of renters cited an inability to get a mortgage as the reason they won’t become a homeowner within five years.
Compared with apartment tenants, tenants of single-family homes are twice as likely to have kids. They also tend to have higher median household incomes and value neighborhood amenities such as good schools and parks more than apartment dwellers.
ORC conducted the survey of 1,006 adults between Jan. 10 and Jan. 13.
Realtor.com | December 11, 2012 | By Diedre Woollard
A new survey shows that active real estate investors are still ready to buy up plenty of properties. A joint BiggerPockets.com/REI Nation survey conducted by ORC International for BiggerPockets.com shows that despite rising prices and shrinking foreclosure inventories, 65 percent of active real estate investors plan to buy as many or more residential properties in the next 12 months as they did in the past year. A total of 39 percent of active investors intend to increase their purchases over the next twelve months while 26 percent plan to buy as many in the year to come as they did in the past year. This group represents an overall pool of 4.5 million investors. Only 30 percent said they plan to buy fewer properties than they have in the past. Last year investors purchased 1.23 million homes, a 64.5 percent increase over 749,000 in 2010, according to the National Association of Realtors.
Some 3 percent of American adults, or 7 million people, consider themselves to be real estate investors and an additional 9 percent of all Americans own investment property today but have no current plans to buy more. Investors are a huge part of the economy, spending $9.2 billion a year to repair housing with a media expenditure of $7500 per property. The survey found that real estate investors are spending more than four times as much as the federal Neighborhood Stabilization Program to repair and rehabilitate the nation’s housing stock. Twenty percent will spend $10,000 to $30,000 on their next property and 16 percent plan to spend more than $30,000. “This survey puts some hard numbers behind the contribution that investors are making towards not only improving neighborhoods and fighting blight, but also towards driving the economy. Those dollars provide jobs and put money into local economies with local companies,” said Chris Clothier, a partner with REI Nation.
CBS Money Watch | October 8, 2012 | Ilyce Glink
Across most of the country, home prices remain affordable and rents continue to rise. And while today's investors are helping the housing recovery, they're not completely responsible. Data from the National Association of Realtors (NAR) suggests that traditional repeat buyers are driving today's market.
According to a recent joint survey by BiggerPockets.com and Memphis Invest, 39 percent of investors plan to buy more properties over the next 12 months than they did over the last year. Twenty-six percent of investors plan to purchase the same number of properties.
"Though housing markets are changing across the nation, investors are still seeing great opportunities. Hundreds of thousands of foreclosures and short sales are coming to market and rents are continuing to improve in most markets, creating a positive environment for the nation's 2.81 million residential real estate investors," Joshua Dorkin, founder and CEO of BiggerPockets.com, said in a press release.
"They will certainly continue to be major player in the nation's housing economy for the foreseeable future," he added.
According to the survey, one out of eight -- or 28.1 million Americans -- either consider themselves to be residential real estate investors or own residential investment properties today, according to the survey. That high number is not surprising when you consider many homeowners are renting out properties they'd rather sell.
NAR data shows investors accounted for an average 22 percent of the market share from 2003 to 2011.
There are perks to investors taking an active interest in today's real estate market. With millions of Americans actively investing in real estate, billions of dollars are being poured into repairs. The results of the survey reveal that real estate investors are spending more than the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to rehabilitate neighborhoods.
Recent NAR data suggests that investors absorbing the over-supply of inventory helped stabilize the housing market. Residential real estate investors have spent more than four times the amount of money HUD's Neighborhood Stabilization Program has to repair foreclosed and short-sale homes, the BiggerPockets.com/Memphis Invest survey says.
At a median expenditure of $7,500 per property owned, investors are spending a total of $9.2 billion per year to repair the damage caused by foreclosures. By comparison, Congress has authorized a total of about $7 billion for the Neighborhood Stabilization Program over the past four years.
Chris Clothier, a partner with Memphis Invest, believes investors are improving neighborhoods and driving local economies. They are purchasing properties that would otherwise sit vacant for months, dragging down area home prices, and using local electricians, plumbers and labor to update the homes. "Those dollars provide jobs and put money into local economies. It's clear that investors are the ones who are risking their own money to improve and stabilize neighborhoods for new owners or tenants," Clothier said in a press release.
Realtor Magazine | September 24, 2012
Rising home prices haven’t deterred investors from the housing market, according to a new survey by real estate-centered companies BiggerPockets.com and Memphis Invest. In fact, nearly 40 percent of real estate investors say they plan to purchase more properties over the next 12 months than they did last year. Twenty-six percent say they plan to buy as many as they did last year, according to the survey.
Investors have made up a big part of the housing market in recent months. Investors bought 1.23 million homes last year—a nearly 65 percent increase over the 749,000 they purchased in 2010, according to the National Association of REALTORS®.
DS News | May 28, 2012 | Tory Barringer
Memphis Invest announced today that it has sold 229 homes to out-of-town, independent investors since January in a run-up to a recent investor weekend.
Memphis Invest hosted the investor weekend May 11-13 in order to showcase local single-family rental properties and to demonstrate Memphis’ strengths as a rental market. The company specializes in locating and renovating distressed properties before placing tenants in them. While some people renovate and flip these houses, it’s becoming more common for investors to buy and hold houses to take advantage of a growing demand for single-family rental homes.
In addition to showcasing homes at the event, Memphis Invest presented a $61,000 donation to Memphis-based St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The company announced in January that it and its partner, Fortune Builders, Inc., would donate to St. Jude a portion of the proceeds from all of its home closings from January to the end of the investor weekend. Memphis Invest also announced that it would give an additional $1,000 to St. Jude for each of the homes sold during the weekend, a total of $23,000.
“Anytime we’re able to show investors properties in person, it really makes the entire process come to life and it offers a tangible link to the area where they’re directing their capital,” said Chris Clothier, partner at Memphis Invest. “People from New York, California and even Canada and Asia who could invest anywhere in the world see the benefits of investing in property in Memphis. That says a lot about the future stability of our community. Because St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is such a defining cornerstone of Memphis, it was only fitting that we partner with our investors to support the hospital.”
Memphis Invest, based in Memphis, Tennessee, Invest provides single-family rental real estate investment services to domestic and international clients looking to include residential real estate ownership in their investment portfolios.
The American Genius | October 9, 2011 | Jeff Brown
The cornerstone of any real estate investor’s strategy must always be — having a Plan and executing it on Purpose. Clearly, there are plans, and there are plans. Also, it’s almost axiomatic that this or that strategy works best for this or that set of circumstances.
