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Technology’s role in rental property investment market

Housing Wire

rental sector has benefitted most landlords in this country, from larger multifamily investors to smaller mom-and-pop owners. Individual investors own about 70% of rental properties in the U.S., Top-of-mind solutions for landlords include automated tenant screening and online rent collection, as well as smart home amenities.

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Roofstock buys Great Jones platform to help investors profit on their real estate

Housing Wire

Some of these properties have tenants already residing in them, giving investors the opportunity to buy and sell the home without the renters being forced to vacate. Like many mortgage and real estate entities in 2020 and 2021, Roofstock got a cut of that sweet, sweet housing market upswing. And opportunities abound.

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Built-to-rent construction gains momentum amid affordable housing shortage 

Housing Wire

Housing affordability has plummeted to its lowest level since the 1980s, keeping many Americans in the rental market. They have also enticed new tenants with concessions, such as a month of free rent, when needed. Meanwhile, investors are flocking to the BTR sector.

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Trade groups oppose rent control on GSE-backed multifamily properties 

Housing Wire

The letter was in response to a request for input issued by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) in May regarding protections for tenants in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -backed multifamily properties. We think the market has changed in a way that there are circumstances where limitations on rent increases may be good public policy.”

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Top Guaranteed Rate LO Shant Banosian joins board of Healing Realty Trust

Housing Wire

Aiming to take the company public next year, Healing Realty Trust will tap into Banosian’s network of big banks as well as investors to grow its portfolio. So we’ll look for him to leverage his relationships into access to investors. Shant has an incredible network. We have a $25 million open series A funding round right now.

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The impact of COVID-19 on small landlords: How to lower the risks

Housing Wire

Several times a month, the National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC) releases data from its Rent Payment Tracker, a measure of the number of tenants who have paid rent that month. The percentage of tenants paying rent declined 2.1 Mom-and-pop investors are especially vulnerable if their tenants fail to pay rent.

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Wall Street SFR firms accused of stripping equity from neighborhoods

Housing Wire

Institutional players in the single-family rental (SFR) market have been expanding their reach into select American neighborhoods since the global financial crisis of 2008, but they now find themselves in an uncomfortable limelight. . For example, in the third quarter of 2021 alone, institutional investors bought 42.8%

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