Real Estate

Inchconnachan Island in Scotland’s Loch Lomond is for sale for $631,000 Savills If your lockdown has sparked a love for solitude, then this uninhabited Scottish island–on sale for offers over $631,000–could be for you. That is, if you don’t mind sharing it with a few wallabies. Inchconnachan on Loch Lomond is being sold by the Colquhoun

Lee Kiser is a multifamily expert, active broker and Principal of Kiser Group, Chicagoland’s leading mid-market multifamily brokerage firm.  Getty Savings and loan crisis, Gulf War, Black Monday, 9/11, the Great Recession … and now, the global pandemic. Every time I think I’ve experienced everything that can turn my business or industry on its head, the commercial

Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Disrupt Equity. Learn more about investment opportunities by visiting our website. Getty Profitability is a crucial metric most investors use to determine if an opportunity is worthwhile. The profitability of a real estate investment can be summarized using a metric known as net operating income (NOI). This is also known as

Founder and CEO of The Raisner Group (formerly Proteus Capital Management), a private real estate investment firm in New York City.  Getty In the future, will we all work from home? This is one of the most-asked questions resulting from the Covid-19 shutdown — understandably so, after a long nationwide experiment in working remotely and handling meetings

Bay 151, a new apartment community in Bayonne, NJ. is among the fresh developments luring New … [+] Yorkers from Manhattan and the Outer Boroughs to the wider open spaces. Hudson Projects Ever since the pandemic began in earnest in March, we’ve heard a lot about New Yorkers exiting the city for distant places like

California has the highest rent gap to close in order to keep cost-burdened tenants housed in the … [+] next six months, according to an analysis by UrbanFootprint. Getty As housing advocates across the U.S. brace for what they predict to be a spike in evictions this summer, when government protections are set to fade

Mortgage applications are going strong Getty The pause in mortgage applications as the Covid epidemic took hold is looking like a mere blip in the distant past as buyer activity surges, according to the latest weekly data numbers. The Mortgage Bankers Association weekly report shows purchase applications rose 33% compared to this week last year,

Realtor.com monthly traffic hit an all-time high of 86 million unique users in June. Getty It may be the lazy days of summer, but it feels like spring in the housing market — and not a moment too soon — as median home prices are surging.  As buyers flooded into the market, realtor.com’s monthly traffic

The student housing industry has been hard at work planning for the fall. Getty With the fall semester approaching, student housing owners and operators are taking unprecedented precautions to ensure students return to a safe and productive environment. Students are likely to find transformed spaces in on-campus housing and new normals as they start or

Kellie Rastegar is Co-Founder and Creative Director at Rastegar Property Group. Getty “Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and test of our civilization.” These valuable words were spoken by Gandhi more than a century ago. Though strides have been made, even in 2020 gender and diversity disparity still exist within real

The Mar-a-Lago estate at the water’s edge in Palm Beach, Florida. The mansion was built by Marjorie … [+] Merriweather Post in the 1920s. Corbis via Getty Images Glenn Parada, the head of an eponymous mortgage empire that recently established its headquarters in Palm Beach, Florida, was born in El Salvador at the peak of

There’s been a lot of analysis and debate on exactly where the stock market is headed in the post-COVID-19 environment. But much less attention has been focused on the housing market. Or more precisely, on whether now is the right time to buy a house. Getty On the plus side, house prices have held steady

CEO of Snappt and President of Berlind Properties. Getty With all 50 states in the process of unfolding plans to reopen the economy after the shutdown caused by the Covid-19 crisis, landlords and tenants alike are curious as to what this new normal will mean for rent payment, deferment or evictions. Like all things in the ongoing

A famed rapper, producer and fashion designer, Kanye West has been dabbling in real estate for … [+] several years now, much like President Donald Trump, whose family made its fortune in the industry. Amy Harris/Invision/AP A day after Kanye West announced his bid for the Oval Office in a tweet dispatched on July 4th,

A pedestrian wearing a protective mask walks past some Retail Space For Lease in San Francisco, … [+] California, U.S., on May 6, 2020. Emptied out malls and hotels across the U.S. have triggered an unprecedented surge in requests for payment relief on commercial mortgage-backed securities, an early sign of a pandemic-induced real estate crisis.

Ali Jamal is the Owner and CEO of Stablegold Hospitality, a real estate investment company. Getty I’ve always been a strong believer in diversification, or in other words, not putting all of your eggs in one basket. Typically, when we want to learn about how to diversify our assets, the information provided through general research is

Rent payment assistance will help both renters and their landlords, says Bob Pinnegar, president and … [+] CEO of the National Apartment Association. Eviction moratoriums, though, may not be as effective. Getty As the economy continues to wobble due to the coronavirus pandemic, while policy proposals diverge on how to prop it back up, July

President, Dane Real Estate. Getty At a time when communication has become modernized, yet disconnected, we’re seeing how important and meaningful it is to connect with others on a personal level. The pandemic has affected our personal and professional lives inextricably. It has changed the way we work, conduct business and communicate with friends and loved

Beaches in Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Palm Beach will close for the July 4th weekend amid … [+] coronavirus concerns in Florida. Getty Images Mortgage rates hit a new record low heading into the holiday weekend as a resurgence of coronavirus cases prompted investors to rush to the relative safety of the bond markets.  The

Open plan office in refurbished fire station. Port House, Antwerp, Belgium. Architect: Zaha Hadid … [+] Architects, 2016. (Photo by: Hufton+Crow/View Pictures/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Universal Images Group via Getty Images As businesses re-open and others continue their preparation to welcome employees back to the workplace, the open-plan office suddenly looks more risky than revolutionary. The ability to network while hot desking, learn by listening and brainstorm at the