The Built to Rent Opportunity Yet, with so few options for affordable housing, the built to rent housing market is drawing significant interest. It's a rental market trend worth investigating. Buyers want single family houses and not being able to buy, they are eager to rent, and at high rent prices. That creates an opportunity…

Texas Housing Market 2022 According to the latest housing market report from Redfin, from July, home prices in Texas rose 11.9% YoY. Home sales slumped 18.4% while the number of homes for sale went in the opposite direction, rising 18.7%. The price of a home for sale across the state rose 11.9% to $371,900 over…

Making Tenant Retention a Priority If we suffer a slowdown or recession in the US, UK, German, Canadian and Australian economies, then rental property owners and managers won't survive it unscathed. As tenants adjust to unaffordable high prices while seeking other wanted rental benefits, they will be on the move to find other accommodations. This…

Buy vs Rent a Home? The purchase of a home is reaching an all time level of difficulty.  That means, the question of buy vs rent may have a different answer in 2022 -- to renting being the wisest choice in 2022/2023. US Fed rate hikes, and increasing loan qualification requirements means the question might…

Why do Germans Love Renting? Germany is a unique country. It seems few of its 83 million citizens are interested in buying a home. They prefer renting. Compare that to the US or Australia, where the obsession for ownership borders on an inalienable right. In Germany, particularly the Berlin property market, they seem quite content…