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While real estate investment purchases are falling into more stable patterns following wild pandemic-era swings, condo activity is lagging, falling to a 10-year low, according to Redfin.U.S. investors bought a total of 46,726 units in the first quarter, up 2% year over year, the real estate brokerage reported. Early 2025 activity recovered from the 3.9% drop in the fourth quarter of 2024.  In the past 12 months, investment purchases have increased or shrunk by less than 4% in each direction, compared to the wide  fluctuations between 2021 and 2023, as...

If financial advisors ask clients the rate of return for their rental real estate investment property, they should expect to hear a number at least 5 percentage points higher than the actual one, according to the founder of The Real Estate Whisperer Financial Planning.That's because of calculations based on "optimistic assumptions, untracked costs and the absence of formal benchmarking" among many owners, said Rich Arzaga, founder of the Monument, Colorado-based firm, in a presentation at this week's Financial Planning Association Retreat in Oak Brook, Illinois."It's where ownership bias meets the...