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Filed under Apartment Building Listings, Investing in Multi-Family, Market Conditions, Uncategorized · Tagged with apartment building sales, multi-family investing, cash flow multi-family real estate, cash flow property for sale, investing in multi-family real estate, multi-family housing, real estate

Curious to know more about the T-Note and 60-year rate cycle? Do you want to make more educated real estate investments? Recently, I’ve been privileged to read the Realty Almanac put out by Realty Publications and First Tuesdays. Who is First Tuesdays and why the cryptic name? They are a California real estate trend resource providing news and data analysis since 1979. First Tuesdays is a holdover term referencing the foreclosure dates and times in Texas. You can read about First Tuesdays here.
The Realty Almanac is a data-driven analysis of the California real estate market. While the nearly 400 pages of forecasting had on occasion put me to sleep, I ultimately dug through it all. I discovered a surprising trove of invaluable information specific to investors like myself who focus on cash flow and the spread between cap rates and interest rates. This report should be extremely helpful in making decisions about buying and selling in today’s Bay Area real estate market.
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Filed under Investing in Multi-Family, Market Conditions · Tagged with interest rates, oakland real estate, multi-family real estate, cash flow property for sale

We just listed this 5-unit apartment building in San Leandro and the first showing was great. We had about a dozen prospects come to look at the property which consists of four townhouse style 2 bedroom units and one 1 bedroom unit.

San Leandro 5-unit building for sale

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In November 2011 I toured a 29 unit apartment building located at 156 Estabrook in San Leandro with my clients. It was a very special day because I presented them with a closing gift of a new iPad 2. I came up with the idea of giving the IPad as a closing gift at a signing a few weeks ago, you can read about it in my iPad closing gift blogpost. The day was exciting because I had the gift with me and I had been waiting for the right time to present it to them.

Nick Myerhoff and Link Corkery presenting completing a successful 1031 exchange

Filed under Deals Closed, Investing in Multi-Family, Uncategorized · Tagged with 1031 exchange, east bay invest, multi-family hou, san francisco bay area real estate, san leandro investment property, cash flow property for sale

I had the pleasure of listening to Richard Knudsen talk about the apartment market in the Bay Area at the local IMF meeting. Richard is an extremely knowledgable veteran broker who is respected by many in the industry. Later I met with Richard to discuss the multi-family housing market and brokerage business in general. Below are the slides from his talk, please take a look at slide #6, it speaks for itself.

Presented By: Richard Knutson, CCIM

Apartment Forecast 2012 for the San Francisco Bay Area

Filed under Investing in Multi-Family, Market Conditions, Property Management · Tagged with capitalization rate, investing in apartment buildings, property management, east bay apartment broker, cash flow, bay area wealth builders, investing, job growth, apartment buildings in the bay area, cap rate, apartment building sales, commercial real estate, purchasing commercial real estate in the san francisco bay area, cash flow multi-family real estate, cash flow property for sale, investing in multi-family real estate