investor education

Finding Undervalued Real Estate Markets By Percy Nikora, Owner, Co-Founder Location, location, location! This is probably the real estate industry’s most overused adage, but we’d be remiss to ignore a longtime truth: where investors buy matters as much – if not more than – what they buy. It’s no wonder,…

5 Real Estate Tax Strategies to Enhance Your Legacy By Percy Nikora, Owner, Co-Founder This is the time of the year when many of us write large checks to the IRS. While I have not come across anyone complaining that they want to pay more than their fair share of…

Real Estate Partnership Structure Guidelines By Percy Nikora, Owner, Co-Founder There are many ways for someone to invest in real estate. Some will start off investing personally, buying one or two single family rental properties before scaling up into small multifamily properties with three or four a piece. This approach…

How to Underwrite an Apartment Deal By Percy Nikora, Owner/Co-founder Underwriting is an essential part of the decision making process when you’re looking to invest in multi-family – apartment – real estate. This is the process you go through to observe the market conditions, characteristics of the apartment building itself,…

Differences Between Passive Vs. Active Investing By Percy Nikora, Owner/Co-founder If you’re looking at getting into either passive or active multi-family real estate investing, it’s important to understand the differences between the two. Although in both cases you’re investing in the same asset, an active investor has a vastly different…

How to Prepare for a Downturn By Percy Nikora, Owner/Co-founder No one knows when the next downturn will come. There are always signs, but you can’t tell when exactly it’s going to happen. Looking in depth at certain metrics helps. However, it’s not a perfect science.   The truth is…

How to Grow a Commercial Real Estate Company By Percy Nikora, Owner/Co-founder In the CRE (commercial real estate) business, growth is essential to survival in the market. When you’re working with investors, you want to be continually adding to your portfolio and doing as much as you can to increase…

Millennials vs. Boomers: Real Estate Trends By Percy Nikora, Owner, Co-Founder Savvy real estate investors must be keenly aware of demographic patterns in the areas in which they’re looking to invest – particularly as it pertains to potential demographic shifts. For example, is the population growing or expanding? Who is…

Types of Technology in Real Estate By Percy Nikora, Owner, Co-Founder Importance of Technology in Real Estate   Advancements in technology are shaking up every industry, especially commercial real estate. There are many types of real estate technology to consider, which include both hardware and software. Both have made it…

How Technology is Changing the Real Estate Industry By Percy Nikora, Owner, Co-Founder What is Real Estate Technology?   Real estate technology is a broad, umbrella term that encapsulates many different types of emerging technology – from property management software, to smart home devices, and a range of tools enabled…