Leaks, Surprise Rehabs, and the Reality of Buying Your First Rental Property
You don’t need to look very far to find a real estate success story, but it’s not every day that you hear from someone who is currently in the trenches of their very first real estate investment. The truth is that there are all types of…
Commercial P&C is at an “inflection point” – how can brokers and carriers step up?
Commercial property and casualty (P&C) insurance is at a critical point as the industry faces mounting economic pressures, including inflation, capital constraints, geopolitical challenges, and climate…
The Top 10 Best Housing Markets Forecasted For Strong Demand This Decade
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Strong demographics have fueled the U.S. demand for housing over the last several years. As millennials, now the largest generation alive in the country, hit their peak home-buying age, demand for home purchases and…
Global Weekly News Roundup Apr 3-7
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Is Seattle A Good Market For Real Estate Investing? Here’s The Latest Trends
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Let’s face it, Seattle isn’t about to land itself on any hottest lists of affordable places to invest any time soon. But a lack of bargains doesn’t mean that there aren’t opportunities to be had. For those who own…
Huge insurer impairments revealed | Insurance Business America
The report, titled “2021 US Property/Casualty Impairments Update,” also revealed that 413 P&C insurers became impaired from 2000 to 2021. Catastrophe losses were determined to be the leading cause of…
Don’t Fall For the “Quick Cash Flow” Properties
You want cash flow, but how do you get it in a housing market with high rates and home prices but low inventory? Or, how do you escape the rent cycle and get into real estate investing? Should you buy your first rental before a primary…
ePayPolicy launches Payables Connect – Automating payables reconciliation for insurance
The founders of ePayPolicy have had firsthand experience of the operational pains of check collection and manual reconciliation in insurance. It was this that led to the company’s first product, which involved…
How to Get Into Commercial Real Estate Investing
Learning how to get into commercial real estate investing seems like a challenging task. With so much industry-specific verbiage and vocabulary like cap rates, pro formas, NOI, triple net, and more, a rookie real estate investor can seem…
Major firms join forces to back NYC parametric flood pilot
Parametric solutions for the public sector
For Swiss Re’s Higgins, parametric insurance provides key benefits to low-income households hit by flooding. The insurer is also exploring the possibility of…