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2801, 2019

The Seasonality of Demand

When investing in multi-family properties, how do you avoid what feels like a free-for-all scavenger hunt? The key to success is timing your purchase to the location, seasonality, and market trends. Here are the ways to navigate each.   Region For the whole country, the [...]

2210, 2018

Thinking Small: How Little Real Estate Funds Can Pay Off Big

Bruce Springsteen once sang a song called “From Small Things (Big Things One Day Come)," which included this stanza: They bought a house on the hillside Where little feet soon would rock Well from small things Mama, big things one day come. That had nothing to [...]

1210, 2018

Tips For Share-Proofing Your Multifamily Property

Florida-based real estate investor named David Oberlander was surprised to learn three years ago that one of his rental properties was falling just short of a five-star rating on Airbnb. As he related on the website biggerpockets.com, one of his tenants called to tell him [...]

409, 2018

Multifamily Properties: Always A Good Investment

The CNBC headline, from July 2017, still stuns: “There Are More Renters Than Any Time Since 1965.” The piece, which cited a Pew Research Center report, goes on to note that in 2016, 36.6 percent of U.S. households were headed by renters, the most since [...]

2708, 2018

Competing Through the Highs (of Demand) and the Lows (of Supply)

As is the case across the country, the real estate market in Chicago is ablaze, for the simplest of reasons: Demand has outstripped supply.   That is, of course, great news for agents and brokerages, who are moving more properties at higher prices, and doing [...]

Michael Zaransky
Michael Zaransky
Co-CEO at Prime Property Investors, Ltd. Managing Principal at MZ Capital Partners

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