BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast

Multifamily real estate is still offering some significant opportunities to investors—you just need to know where to look! Although the past two years have been rough for multifamily, with falling rents, rising interest rates, and higher vacancy, we may be on the way out of this vicious multifamily market we found ourselves in just a year or so ago. With new multifamily construction predicted to dry up significantly over the next few years, current multifamily rents are already beginning to rise. So, where should YOU be buying to take advantage of this positive trend?

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Airbnb has changed, and if you don’t change with it, you could see your income start to dwindle. The good news? If you get ahead of the curve, you could make SUBSTANTIALLY more money from every short-term rental you own, EVEN if you’re not in a vacation destination. So, what do you need to do NOW to get more guests, bookings, and money from your short-term rental investment in 2024 and 2025? Experienced short-term rental investor and CEO of Rent to Retirement, Zach Lemaster, is here to help.

You may know Zach as the turn...

Should I pay off my rentals or scale to more doors? Should I start flipping houses in my local but expensive market or go long-distance? When is the time to move from residential to commercial real estate? We’ve got some crucial questions to answer on today’s Seeing Greene as David and Rob tackle the best ways to build wealth and set yourself up for retirement in 2024. Want to reach financial freedom faster? Then, this is the show for you.

First, an investor who eagerly wants to retire asks whether he should flip hous...

Love traveling? Want to make more money? Looking for real estate with lower price points and higher returns? International real estate investments may be for you. Whether you want to own a home near the mountains of Mexico, the beaches of Belize, or a small seaside town, buying property abroad could make your dreams come true. But is it easy enough for a beginner? And what should you know before making the big jump to out-of-country real estate investing?

Michael Cobb, an international real estate investing expert with over three decades of experience investing...

Airbnb bans escalate, a “tsunami” could be coming for this real estate niche, and “sinking” cities lead to skyrocketing insurance prices. The housing market changes every week, so we’re here to break down the headlines and sift through the hype so you know what could impact YOU. Dave Meyer and the entire On the Market panel are here to discuss four of the top real estate-related news stories from this week. 

First, we discuss the commercial real estate credit crunch that could cause a “tsunami” in the office investing space. Next, one major European city w...

Want financial freedom through real estate? Then, you’ll need to know how to buy a rental property. Don’t worry; even as a beginner, you can take three basic steps to buy your first rental property and start building the passive income you’ve always dreamed of. To help you out, Dave Meyer, BiggerPockets’ VP of Market Intelligence and a fourteen-year real estate investing veteran, will walk you through finding, evaluating, and offering on rental properties. 

Whether you’re a beginner or an active investor, these three steps will help you land more real estate...

In this episode, we’re sharing two of the real estate markets we’re investing in NOW. One you may have heard of and one you probably haven’t. Both have strong long-term fundamentals, a sizable renter population, and more demand than meets supply. Which markets are we talking about, and why did we pick them over the thousands of other real estate markets across America? We’ll go into detail on today’s show!

Dave and Henry are sharing two of their favorite real estate markets, both seeing sizable returns EVEN in 2024. First, Henry talk...

Life happens, and you’ve accumulated some debt. You’re wondering how to buy real estate EVEN with a high DTI (debt-to-income) ratio. Whether it’s good debt, like rental property mortgages, or bad debt, like credit card debt, holding you back, David and Rob have some ideas to help YOU grow your real estate portfolio faster, make more passive income, and get yourself out of the red!

In this Seeing Greene, we’re talking about good, bad, and ugly debt. First, a house hacker hits hurdles when trying to buy his next property due to h...

Heather Blankenship has made $10,000,000 alone from just one RV park investment. She got into it with no money and zero experience. While pregnant with her first child, Heather answered the phones, paid the bills, laid mulch, and slept on the office floor, working long days and longer nights to do anything she could to keep the campground running. Over a decade later, she has a $30,000,000 portfolio, with her first campground worth almost half that amount. How did she do it, and can you repeat her same investing strategy?

In her new book, Real Estate...

Will the new jobs report finally prompt the Fed to cut rates, leading to you scoring a lower mortgage rate? With multifamily rents still falling, should we fear a nosediving rent trend in the near future? And why are all these traditionally overlooked investing markets becoming the new rental property hot spots? You asked, and on this episode of BiggerNews, we’re answering. We’ve taken top questions from the BiggerPockets forums and are answering them on today’s show!

It wouldn’t be a BiggerNews episode without talking about the Federal Reserve. With the late...