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Old buildings: What is Replacement Cost?

There are good reasons to keep an older building. In this blog I will go over replacement cost and how it affects investing in existing buildings. Replacement cost is asking the questions “how much would it cost if I had to build it from scratch?”. This is important to understand...

Investing in Single-Family Homes? Find the ones zoned for duplex.

Single-family homes make up a large percentage of most of our cities' total area. For example, in the City of Miami, 46,400 of 67,921 parcels (68%) are zoned for single-family homes. In Los Angeles, 436,427 of 671,742 parcels (65%) are zoned for single-family. As urbanization increases, slowly but surely zoning...

How Big Data Will Impact Real Estate Buying, Selling and Developing

Big data, the vast amount of information generated daily in our connected world, is upending business models in industries from finance to tourism. It is also permeating real estate, a multi-pronged, multi-billion-dollar sector known for its reliance on tradition and intuition. “Real estate has traditionally been a late adopter in...