Housing-News-Report-November-2016

Contents

FEATURED ARTICLE

The maturing single family rental industry helps mom-and-pop investors buy beyond their backyards. Many of those real estate investors live in blue states but are investing in red states P1 BLUE STATE BUYERS SWING TO RED STATE RENTALS

P10 TECH PUTS NEW SPIN ON FIX-AND-FLIP FINANCING

By Nav Athwal, founder and chief executive officer, RealtyShare, (Page 10). “Residential real estate investment is going through a period of resurgence,” writes Athwal. “Single family home and condo flips hit a six-year peak in the second quarter of 2016, with 51,434 projects completed.” Athwal sees nothing but blue skies for tech financing.

P1

P10

P13

Today, Washington, D.C. ranks among the nation’s most thriving and vibrant cities. While the rest of the nation got hammered by the Great Recession of 2008 and struggled to recover, a remarkable inversion occurred in Washington, D.C.: as the rest of the country’s real estate markets receded, the District of Columbia blossomed. P13 AMID GENTRIFICATION, A ‘NEW D.C.’ EMERGES

P24 LEGAL BRIEFS

P25 NEWS BRIEFS

P24

Made with FlippingBook Online newsletter