Author: Alan Findlay

How Accurate is Zillow’s New Accolade? The Genuine Value Play in Buffalo Real Estate

Written by Alan Findlay on February 18, 2025. Posted in Investor Insight.

Buffalo again received the title of being the ‘hottest housing market for 2025’ in USA after being the ‘hottest housing market for 2024’ the year before. The criteria given were as follows – Forecast annual home value appreciation in Nov. 2025 Forecast acceleration in home value appreciation,...

Mckoon House

Written by Alan Findlay on November 18, 2024. Posted in Listing.

How Trump Policies Will Affect the Housing Market in the Great Lakes Region

Written by Alan Findlay on November 15, 2024. Posted in Investor Insight.

The new President, being from a real estate background himself is generally viewedfavorably by the industry. However, let’s have a look at what impact his policies mighthave on the supply, demand, and overall prices and rents in the Great Lakes region. Inflation Donald Trump‘s key economic...

Can a beginner succeed using the BRRRR method?

Written by Alan Findlay on August 20, 2024. Posted in Investor Insight.

By Alan Findlay BRRRR is bandied about as an easy way to ‘free money’. When you understand that the odd-sounding acronym stands for something as simple as ‘Buy, Rehab, Rent, Refinance and Repeat’, then it kind of makes sense, doesn’t it? There are excellent books written on this subject but...

Rhode Island House

Written by Alan Findlay on August 20, 2024. Posted in Listing.

Rhode Island House in Buffalo’s up-and-coming ‘five points’ neighbourhood is a great long term buy. With low taxes the house has recently been rehabbed to rental standard and is rented for market rent.($1300 and $850 per month, total of $2150 per month) Seller has agreed to put...

Whitney House

Written by Alan Findlay on August 11, 2024. Posted in Listing.

Woodlawn House

Written by Alan Findlay on August 10, 2024. Posted in Listing.

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Whatever happened to West Ferry House?

Written by Alan Findlay on August 8, 2024. Posted in Investor Insight.

The world was in the ‘crash’ mode of thinking, but Buffalo had already been on its uppers for years, and while the Baltics (where I lived at the time) was in a deep recession, things were already so bad that the crash barely registered in Buffalo. The house was a pretty standard, single-family...

Market Update

Written by Alan Findlay on March 20, 2020. Posted in Investor Insight.

Hi All – Now things are slightly less busy due to plague and government shutdowns, this seems as good a time as any to share my thoughts on the market. I think the best place to start is to consider the reason we have this kind of asset in the first place – we’re fortunate enough to be in a...

Is a Real Estate Bubble Forming?

Written by Alan Findlay on December 2, 2019. Posted in Investor Insight.

For those of us who’ve been around through a crash or two, there’s always a bit of nervousness when an economy or a market seems to be growing too fast, or the returns on our investments seem too good. Right now, is a time like that here in USA. Unemployment is at all-time...