Archive for Investing in multifamily

Basic Valuation Methods for Phoenix Income Properties.

Three simple ways to analyze Phoenix real estate investments; the pros and cons. There are many ways to analyze a real estate investment purchase;  besides investigating location, demographics and timing an investor will also come across the Gross Rent Multiplier, the Cap rate and Cash on Cash, as indicators of investment performance.  Many brochures from [...]

Multifamily Income Apartments in Arcadia Neighborhood

A cluster of mid century modern apartment buildings in East Phoenix. South Arcadia has an area with a cluster of small multifamily buildings; triplexes, four-plexes and unique duplexes make up a large part of a neighborhood North of Indian School and East of 32nd St.   This is an ideal location for a multifamily investment [...]

Multifamily Is Gaining Popularity From More Then Investors.

Multifamily or Muli-unit properties are regaining popularity not only amongst investment real estate buyers but buyers who want to purchase such properties for owner occupancy.  This is trend which will probably grow and it presents an opportunity for builders and current owners to build and update existing properties to cater to this new clientel. This [...]

Ten Commercial Phoenix Real Estate Terms You Should Know

Whether you own or rent your office space, property costs are one of the largest business overhead expenses. That’s why it’s important to comprehend the full ramifications of taking over the title to a property or entering into a lease agreement. Before you sign a lease, work with a commercial real estate broker with a [...]

Advice for the Small Investor Planning to Build a Commercial Phoenix Real Estate Portfolio

Individual stocks and bonds. Mutual funds. Precious metals. Certificates of deposit and interest-bearing checking accounts. Ask the “average” investor where he or she directs investment money, and more than likely the answer will include one or more of the vehicles listed above. But what other options are available to the investor who wants to truly [...]

Doing Your Small Phoenix Multifamily Laundry

Doing your laundry: a tale of increasing your cash in a small income property. I spoke with a client looking to sell his two fourplexes in the near future.  Part of my due diligence, as an seller representative, in establishing the value of a property I discovered how the owner is loosing quite a bit [...]

15 Tips To Improve Your Phoenix Income Property Cash Flow

It’s often the small things, the culmination of efficiencies and ideas that increase income in a multifamily property.  Below is a collection of 15 ideas to increase cash flow, either by increasing income or decreasing expenses.  Many of these have been tired by me as an owner of several multifamily properties and others are ideas [...]

Getting ready for the Phoenix Light Rail.

The opening of the first section of the Greater Phoenix light rail is just around the corner, Dec. 27th 2008 to be exact.  Just a few years ago this areas was a wasteland of offices and and suburbanites who disappeared at the sun went down to their distant sleeper communities.  It’s quite different now.  The [...]

Investing In Phoenix Income Multifamily; The Basics

At PhoenixMarketTrends.com we posted (before moving all multifamily discussion here to Arizona Apartment Investor) a series about purchasing income multifamily properties in Phoenix, AZ.   The 101 level series goes over the basics of purchasing, financing, cash flow and maintenance items in a multifamily purchase like a fourplex but medium sized apartments as well.  The links [...]

Old Phoenix Apartments Can Increase Your Profit.

The view of old buildings, older areas of Phoenix has changed and is changing.  The pull to suburbia is diminishing as the central core regains is dynamism and gravitational pull, drawing people back into the urban city.  This pull is not only about the need for people to be together, to see each other and [...]

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