Introduction
Many investors look to traditional stock and bond portfolios to fund their retirement lifestyles, following a variety of methods to determine their ideal balance. Strictly sticking to traditional investments has its downfalls, though, including idiosyncratic risk and high volatility. Modern real estate investing, on the other hand, helps investors avoid…
Modern Financial Planning: Portfolio Management
Many investors and financial planning firms choose to take a “top-down” approach to portfolio management. This approach begins by evaluating an investor’s lifestyle, goals, liquidity requirements, and personal considerations. Then, they determine their risk tolerance, asset allocation, and ultimately individual investment choices.
This sounds simple enough, but in practice, results…
The 4% Rule
Many investors look to traditional stock and bond portfolios to fund their retirement lifestyles. Following this method, individuals often choose to measure their financial capacity to retire by a simple criterion: the 4% rule. The 4% rule states that once investors have 25 times their annual expenditure saved in a…
We are pleased to announce the launch of EquityMultiple’s Short Term Notes - a savings alternative that goes above and beyond.
EquityMultiple’s mission has always been to strive to make real estate investing easy and accessible. Since 2015, we have helped thousands of investors increase their exposure to real estate…
How Does Our Product & Engineering Team Prioritize Work?
We take a customer-centric approach to planning, prioritizing, and building new features for the EquityMultiple platform. To continually improve, we ask our investors directly for feedback. We also monitor implicit feedback in the form of heat mapping and other user data within the platform.
Much of what we do is…
About Student Housing
As a subset of multifamily, investing in student housing comes with its own unique set of challenges and opportunities. It may seem similar to traditional multifamily properties; however, there are several key differences:
Leasing dynamics
One of the main benefits of student housing is the tenant base is consistent and highly visible…
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Inflation
The Labor Department reported a 4.2% year-over-year increase in the core consumer price index (CPI — the main…
A version of this article was originally published on November 12, 2019.
EquityMultiple provides investors access to high-quality commercial real estate investment opportunities at low minimums and diversified offerings with a range of risk/return profiles. …
What is the Present Legislative Climate Around Opportunity Zones?
The Opportunity Zone program has largely fallen out of the spotlight. Perhaps because it has received scrutiny for benefitting developers who may not be acting within the true spirit of the program. Meanwhile, over three years have passed since the introduction of the original schedule for tax deferral and reduction…
