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With a median age of just 33, our next stop on our Market Watch is Memphis, TN.  Just in the news today we found 4 news articles that list Memphis as a great place to flip homes. In 2012 it had a population of 655,155, making it the largest city in the state of Tennessee, the largest […]

It seems America has a new sweet heart. Move over Jennifer Aniston, here comes real estate. It has been creeping slowly back into the hearts of Americans ever since the crash of 2008. But like they say, absence does make the heart grow fonder. Fond enough that in a recent Gallup Poll Americans cited real […]

When you hear the name of this city, most people think of country music and the Grand Ole Opry. But when investors hear its name, they think…money. Nashville, the second largest city in Tennessee, is our next stop on our Market Watch list of cities that you may not think are ripe for the picking […]

Florida was arguably one of the hardest hit area in the county by the mortgage crisis. We have seen many of the “Sand States” deal with the down turn but many are on their way back up. In our next issue of Market Watch we visit a city in Florida that has many experts calling […]

One would think that Hollywood’s elite would have better things to do with their time than invest in real estate. Like maybe drive their $100,000 cars or walk their designer breed pooches. Why do they have to poke their noses in the flipping industry? Every day when our team is doing research on the industry […]

When someone hears the city name Green Bay, it is hard to think of anything but the famous Cheeseheads of the Green Bay Packers. Not many realize the actual Cheesehead headquarters is the oldest city in the state of Wisconsin. Though it is the oldest, it is only the third largest city after Madison and Milwakee. […]

  Once again investing in real estate is ranking among the top picks for millionaire investors. A few weeks ago. Morgan Stanley released results of an in depth survey asking numerous investing questions to over 1,004 U.S. investors. The investors age 25 to 75, with $100,000 or more in investable household financial assets overwhelmingly stated investing […]

We are sure you have heard the term “hipster” at some point. This social designation for people usually around the ages 25 to 34, has recently gained enough traction for marketers to start targeting them. While images of skinny jeans, coffee shops and beards probably pop in your head more often than the term real […]

New and lucrative flipping opportunities are are popping up all over the country this year year. According to RealtyTrac home sales for December 2013 were up 8% compared with the previous month, and down 16%compared with a year ago. The median sales price of a non-distressed home (those that are usually not foreclosed and/or flipped) was $175,000. The median sales […]

With the new year a month under our belts we thought it a good practice to see where we are at in the news. Real estate itself as an industry is in the news as about as much as Kim Kardashian here lately with rising home prices but not  quite as many Twitter followers. We […]