Tag Archives: Single Family Rental Market

In order to achieve lower default rates on single-family rental investor loans, many single-family rental loan originators have enhanced their underwriting criteria. What changes did they make?

What areas out of a class of 24 single-family rental securitizations performed well in March?

Invitation Homes, a nationwide provider of home leasing headquartered in Dallas, Texas, has announced the addition of two senior executives, Elizabeth “Jiggs” foster and Holly Costello.

What does a new investor just entering the SFR space need to know? Fiona Simmonds of B2R Finance and Mike Ryan of RE/MAX discuss the possibilities with MReport.

The National Rental Home Council President of the Board and President and CEO of Invitation Homes, John Bartling, and sat down with MReport to discuss opportunities for investors in the SFR market and how they can capitalize on them to grow their businesses.

Single-family rental investors saw have seen major growth over the last year in terms of income and appreciation in housing markets across the U.S. See which housing markets offer the most and least favorable cap rates on single-family rental homes for investors.

KBW called the third quarter difficult and estimates mREIT book values will fall 3.5 percent quarter-over-quarter, with more mREITs reporting earning misses than positive results. To make matters worse, KBW noted that “while nearly half the group cut dividends in 3Q we expect management commentary to suggest more cuts ahead.”

As the single-family rental space becomes more populated with investors, all of whom are trying to gain any advantage that will help them cut costs and streamline processes, therefore maximizing profits, more of them are turning to technology.

The 12th Annual Five Star Conference in Dallas last month included the inaugural Single-Family Rental Lab. Now, Five Star Institute is expanding its footprint in the burgeoning single-family rental market with its inaugural Single-Family Rental Summit October 11 to 13, 2015, in Las Vegas.

When the panel of four experts debated whether the current single-family rental market is a "bubble" or is here to stay and the question was put to them by Tim Herriage, the lab's director, three of the four experts answered that it was here to stay. That is, three out of four experts believe that investors will be able to sustain the single-family rental market enough to avoid a housing crisis like the one in 2008.