Bitcoin Creating New Home Buyers? Why We’re Watching the Crypto Effect on Real Estate Markets

Bitcoin is now available from mainstream financial managers. Suddenly, it’s a significant part of U.S. investment and retirement portfolios. So, bitcoin is joining real estate as an asset class.

At this point, the leading cryptocurrency can influence the costs of housing in some markets. Its rise even allows some people to buy their first homes.

Let’s take a closer look.

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Get in Early, Make a High Down Payment: The Case for Assertive Home Buying

Have you noticed the big home finance companies desperately touting their low-down-payment deals?

You’d think no one wants to put 20% down anymore!

But interest rates are high, so keeping your debt high is a pricey thing to do. Therefore, it can make sense, for those who can swing it, to:

  • Put as much money down as comfortably possible, and…
  • Jump into the market, and get busy paying that monthly mortgage down, for an easier time in your retirement years.

Let’s explore the case for getting aggressive with an investment in a home.

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Indianapolis Rising: Where the Investor Buyers Are Going and Why

Some say the investment boom has fizzled. But mostly, it has changed tactics. Reacting to a sharp increase in the costs of mortgages, investors have shifted away from certain housing markets and into others.  

Investors are keeping deed recorders very busy in Indianapolis. Suddenly, Milwaukee is feeling the love, too. Columbus, Ohio? Yep, buyers are in.

Here, we check what markets the real estate investors are betting on now.

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