Welcome to my weekly take, A Skeptical Real Estate Dude, coming at you live from Nashville, TN. Every week I write a brief, hopefully insightful, dive into real estate and financial markets, for all you tubular dudes ...

Hey everyone, I'm a realtor in Philadelphia, I'm finally in a financial position to start flipping my own houses. The MLS has nothing but inflated prices, wholesalers are also inflating prices leaving only buy and hol...

If properties double in value every 5 years or appreciate by 8-10% if it's the right area do property values just go up infinitely? If a house in Seattle is worth 2M in 2023 and is only 2000 square feet in a good neig...

I am looking to diversify my investment portfolio by moving into real estate.  Living in the bay area and not planning to stay here forever, purchasing here isn't really an option.  I am looking to get into long-term ...

I just appraised a 48 unit, 6 story building constructed in 1965. It is located in a nice suburb of Boston but not premier location. Value based on current market data: $185,000 per unit, 11 PGIM, 5.5% cap rate.

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I want to buy my next investment. Looking for advice on way forward. Here is the skinny: - I have one rental property (VA loan)- took out a Heloc to buy my second property - I live in the second property (VA loan also...

Below is a chart of the interest rate on the 10 year going back to 1880.  As we all know the 10 year is a reasonable benchmark for mortgage rates.  In other words, or what matters to investors, the 10 year determines ...

I read Aftershock, the latest edition, by the brothers Wiedemer. It was fairly dark, much about our economy being a multi-bubble economy, the weakness in housing for various reasons (including the 50% or so cash tr...

I keep hearing that equity in houses are going to go up 10% next year and possible 15% in the next two years.  People are paying for houses way over their appraised value and bidding wars are sparking up all over the ...