Rising Bank-Owned Homes in Late 2025: A New Era of Housing Market Distress?

Bank-Owned Homes Grew Rapidly at the End of 2025—Are We in a New Era of Distress? As 2025 draws to a close, the real estate market is confronting an unsettling trend: a significant uptick in the number of bank-owned homes, also known as real estate-owned properties (REOs). The surge in bank-owned homes, the result of […]
Exploring Late 2025 Foreclosure Auctions: More Deals and Lower Prices

More Deals, Lower Pricing—A Look at What’s Going On at Foreclosure Auctions in Late 2025 In the real estate market’s ever-changing landscape, foreclosure auctions have emerged as a significant focal point in late 2025, attracting investors and potential homeowners alike. A combination of economic shifts, rising interest rates, and new technological advancements in the auction […]
Late Start to Real Estate? Investing in Your 50s/60s

How Rookie Investors Are Breaking Into Hotel Ownership (Without Millions in the Bank) If you’ve ever driven by a Hilton or a Marriott and thought, “Owning one of those must take a billionaire’s bank account,” you’re not alone — and you’re not exactly right, either. A growing wave of rookie real estate investors are discovering […]
Snowballing to 6 Properties and $75K+/Year Cash Flow (After a Late Start!)

Do you want to get into real estate but fear you’re too late to the party? This middle-aged, middle-class couple thought so, too. Instead, they discovered a strategy that helped them fast-track their financial goals, bringing them to six rental properties and over $75,000 in annual cash flow! Welcome back to the Real Estate Rookie […]
Americans Are Late on Their Mortgages

Mortgage delinquencies are up…or are they? One chart that’s been circulating on social media would have you believe that a growing number of homeowners are on the brink of foreclosure, driving us toward another 2008-style collapse. Is the panic justified or unfounded? We’ll dig into the data in today’s episode! A Freddie Mac chart has […]