Real estate investments

Home flipping profits shrink to their slimmest since 2008

Real estate flips produced their smallest profit margins in well over a decade during the third quarter as rising home prices require a change in strategy for investor businesses, according to a report from Attom.  Processing Content Real estate investors flipped a total of 72,217 properties between July and September this year. The number finished […]

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Who buys investor properties? Increasingly, other investors

In the real-estate investment market, business operators are more frequently buying and selling among themselves, according to new Batchdata research.  While businesses that buy homes with the intent of flipping or renting them out might purchase from a variety of sources, over half resell those properties to other investors, a second-quarter report published by the

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Rithm Capital inks $1.5B deal for investor loans

Rithm Capital’s investor lending operations will get a financial boost thanks to a new partnership to help fund the purchase of over $1 billion worth of loans. The New York-based real estate investment trust announced it had reached an agreement with an unnamed “large institutional investor” to fund the acquisition of up to $500 million

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Home flipping bears less fruit for investors in Q1

Flipping homes is becoming a less profitable business venture for investors, an Attom Data Solutions report finds. The return on investment for fix-and-flip properties dipped to 25% in the first quarter of 2025, down from 28% the previous quarter. In the fall of 2020, the ROI on flipping homes was 48.8%, per the data vendor.

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Condos losing appeal among real estate investors

While real estate investment purchases are falling into more stable patterns following wild pandemic-era swings, condo activity is lagging, falling to a 10-year low, according to Redfin. U.S. investors bought a total of 46,726 units in the first quarter, up 2% year over year, the real estate brokerage reported. Early 2025 activity recovered from the

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