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What is an Opportunity Zone? An Opportunity Zone is a new community development program established by Congress in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 to encourage long-term investments in low-income urban and rural communities nationwide. Stay Tuned Real estate investors will soon be able to defer or even eliminate capital gains tax through a new […]

Would you invest in real estate in today’s market? There are people who tense up at this question, their thoughts focused on a looming housing crisis. Investors know better. They know that portfolios are not built overnight. They have a strategic long-term plan in constant action, one that dictates what to do and how to […]

In CRE 201 – Start With Risk, we introduced the essential concepts and basic methods used to analyze real estate opportunities. Now that you can apply the ideas of risk and return to make useful comparisons between multiple properties, it’s time to get a bigger picture of the real estate system. In CRE202: The Real […]

Far too often investors make decisions based on the big numbers on the side of returns, while ignoring the big factors on the side of risk. This tendency is dangerous. If left unchecked, it can lead to unsustainable losses. The single best way to guard against it is to objectively determine the investment style best […]

Commercial Real Estate Investing 101 (CRE101) is an essential primer on the world of commercial real estate investing, answering basic questions investors commonly have, as well as furnishing key terms and definitions, for example: What is “Net Operating Income”? How does real estate compare to other asset classes? What is the difference between direct and […]