Investment examines property purchases as capital decisions: market selection, entry price, capital expenditure reserves, exit assumptions and the returns a deal can plausibly produce. Every analysis lists what it assumes. Written for individual landlords, small partnerships and anyone comparing a rental purchase against other uses of the same money.
Where the numbers work and where they only look like they do: market selection, purchase price discipline, and the assumptions behind a projection.
A century-old tax provision lets real estate investors defer capital gains by swapping one investment property for another. Two federal deadlines decide whether the deferral holds.
David Jordan
Cross-market rental portfolios spread vacancy and regulation risk, but insurance repricing tied to climate exposure is now the line that moves fastest.
David Jordan
Property taxes reset to the purchase price in many states, and the difference between the seller's bill and the buyer's can quietly move cap rates for decades.
Yuki Tanaka
Cash-flow investing and appreciation investing are different businesses with different financing, different risk, and different definitions of failure.
Peter Almeida
Migration and employment data are the demand side of every rent forecast, and both are free, public, and readable with the right caveats.
David Jordan
REITs deliver real estate returns without toilets or tenants, while direct ownership adds leverage and tax mechanics at the price of illiquidity and labor.
David Jordan
Discounted distressed purchases earn their spread only when the rehab budget, timeline overruns, and idle-month carrying costs are priced before the bid.
Yuki Tanaka
Absorption measures how fast a market takes up new rental units, and it is the single best check on whether supply will eat an investor's rent growth.
Peter Almeida
Two- to four-unit buildings spread fixed costs across more doors, but the savings only hold when rents, systems, and financing are counted honestly.
Yuki Tanaka
House hacking lowers the cost of entry into rental ownership by financing an owner-occupied two-unit with a low-down-payment mortgage.
Peter Almeida