by Eric Krattenstein | Jun 29, 2026 |
Pennsylvania doesn’t fit the narratives that drive investor attention. It isn’t a Sunbelt growth story or a comeback story like Detroit or a yield-headline machine like Cleveland. It’s two major cities and seven secondary metros that have been...
by Eric Krattenstein | Jun 25, 2026 |
For most of 2025, the consensus was simple: inflation was cooling, the Fed would keep cutting, and rates would drift lower through 2026. That story is now wrong. The Fed held in June, the dot plot flipped toward a hike rather than a cut, and the higher-for-longer...
by Eric Krattenstein | Jun 18, 2026 |
Hurricane season started June 1, 2026 with NOAA forecasting below-normal Atlantic activity for the first time in four years. The Florida insurance market is simultaneously executing its first broad rate cuts since 2019. The three moves smart investors are making this...
by Eric Krattenstein | Jun 15, 2026 |
DSCR cash-out refinance math depends on four things that rarely all line up at once: where the equity goes, whether the new DSCR still clears the floor, what the rate differential looks like between current and new pricing, and how long the property gets held. The...
by Eric Krattenstein | Jun 11, 2026 |
Indianapolis quietly became one of the most balanced investor markets in the Midwest while attention chased cooling Sunbelt cities. The ZIP-level map drawn from Zillow Home Value Index and HUD Fair Market Rent data, the Indiana constitutional 2% property tax cap that...