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Investors Are Effectively No Longer Overpaying for Assets

Investors are effectively no longer overpaying for assets in the residential housing market, according to Auction.com EVP Rick Sharga in the company’s quarterly housing update on Thursday. But for those investors paying at or close to market value for their ...

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Experts Believe Single-Family Rental Market is Here to Stay

When the panel of four experts debated whether the current single-family rental market is a "bubble" or is here to stay and the question was put to them by Tim Herriage, the lab's director, three of the four experts answered that it was here to stay. That is, three out of four experts believe that investors will be able to sustain the single-family rental market enough to avoid a housing crisis like the one in 2008.

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Drop in REO Sales is Driving Continued Decline in Cash Sales Share

May 2015's cash sales share of nearly 32 percent was down by 31 percent from the peak of 46.5 percent recorded in January 2011. CoreLogic estimates that if the cash sales share continues to decline at the same rate as it did in May 2015, the cash sales share should fall back down to its pre-crisis level of 25 percent by the middle of 2017.

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Investors Continue to Favor Flipping Over Renting by Narrowing Margin

Overall investor intent in April's survey showed that slightly more than half (50.4 percent) of investors preferred flipping as a strategy, while 48.3 percent of investors said they intended to employ a hold-to-rent strategy. This data compared with 53.5 percent and 44.8 percent, respectively, in Q1. "Most of the country and most investor segments performed in a manner very consistent with what we’ve seen over the past year, but investment strategies in Texas appear to have shifted pretty dramatically," Auction.com EVP Rick Sharga said.

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