Quote: (02-28-2017 05:04 PM)Troller Wrote:
The selling price compared to the rent yeld is bellow 5%? Can you double your money?
I´ve recently sold one apartment and one building. My criterias are the ones stated above. The actual selling price compared to rent was bellow 5%. When I bought it it was around 10%. Now because the price went up. It yelds around 4% according to the actual selling price. I sold both.
Nobody can call the market. The only certainty is any investment should yeld 5%. More than this is good. Less is bad. The moment an asset stops giving this yeld time to sell. Then wait. It´s all cyclical. You sell now. Buy three for the same price in 10yrs.
There are some indicators we are near a top. I´ve been reading about a bubble on commercial real estate. But haven´t seen many 100% mortgages. In 2008. Not only banks were giving 100%. They were also lending for furniture, etc. Haven´t saw this hapening yet.
This guy is shorting Canadian real estate:
https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/meet-...eal-estate
I think what you are describing is a modified version of cap rates. Fundamentally, your reasoning is sound.
Since, this is a real estate thread, I would like to share some of my thoughts regarding interest rates:
I would love to see the interest rates rise up and continue to increase. With the Fed expected to increase interest rates in March (probably by 25 bps) and hopefully a few more times year, we will see housing prices come down. This is a good thing. We have been running in a low interest rate environment for more than decade now and all it has led to is a massive transfer of wealth from Main Street to Wall Street, disincentivizing savers, causing a rush to invetsments (RE, equities etc.) in hopes of chasing returns.
Even if the interest rates were to rise to 7-8% (which they won't; this year), what we will see is:
1. RE prices being forced downwards as more and more people will be unable to afford homes in the 'hot' markets. You can call it a 'crash' however in reality it is more of a return to the historical norm.
2. It is better to buy a lower priced home/investment property with a high mortgage rate because of the following reasons:
a. Interest payments are usually tax deductible.
b. You have an opportunity to refinance should the interest rates decline again in the future
c. If you are buying at a lower price with a high interest rate, you have the opportunity to pay down the mortgage (P+I) faster (if you have extra cash) than the same property that you purchased at an elevated purchase price and low interest rate.
3. Higher interest rates will reduce the pressure for savers to plow their cash into investments, real estate or others.
I am fairly certain that the increase cost of borrowing will elicit howls of protest from Wall Street and other speculators, however what has been going on (low interest rate environment) is nothing short of the Fed robbing the savers and propping a weak economy that has strayed from it's fundamentals.