This time last year, house flipping was at its highest level in years. Prices were soaring and smart investors were snapping up the dwindling number of foreclosed properties left on the market in hot markets like California. This year, it’s a different story entirely —…
From the moment the market bottomed out in 2012 until now, home prices have been on the up and up. Sale numbers are slowing down this year, but with inventories still much lower than their usual levels and buyer confidence at its highest level in…
Recent data on the California housing market confirms what many experts have suspected since the beginning of 2014: This year, the housing market is calming down, but home prices are still going up. An article in the Los Angeles Times reports that home prices across…
Forbes recently shared some surprising data regarding the current housing market. Evidently, the US housing market is a lot more global than you might think. According to data out of the National Association of Realtors (NAR), 35% of all homes purchased in America last year…
Here at ZINC Financial, we’ve always found that treating our clients like partners leads to greater success for everyone. The people we work with are people who we trust, and those same people trust us time and time again with their property investments. Over the…
Perhaps the most powerful tool any house flipper has is their smart phone. All human knowledge is at your fingertips with a 4G connection, and that includes a wide variety of information and resources on available properties, deal calculators, and house flipping loans. Here are…
As retirement age draws ever nearer, many people are starting to realize that what they thought they needed to retire a few years ago is no longer enough. Life expectancies are getting longer, and the market crash of a few years back left many people’s…
Real estate data firm RealtyTrac has released exciting new data for house flipping professionals. While the total percentage of homes flipped in the United States went down from 4.1% in the fourth quarter of 2013 to 3.7% in the first quarter of 2014, the gross…
The Fresno Bee recently reported that Fresno has made the list of the highest performing housing markets nationwide, based on new data out of Clear Capital, a real estate data firm. Clear Capital lists the top 15 housing markets based on changes in home price…
If you’re thinking about getting involved in fix and flip investing, now is the time. Here at ZINC Financial we’re encouraging our clients to take advantage of the current factors currently stacked in favor of fix and flip investors. Home prices are on the rise…