Deal Underwriting

Running the numbers: cash flow, financing costs, reserves, and the assumptions that decide whether a deal works.

Housing Market

Rents Are Rising Again. What Rent Growth Rate Should Investors Actually Use?

Sep 1, 2026

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5 min read

Rents Are Rising Again. What Rent Growth Rate Should Investors Actually Use?

Rents rose for a seventh straight month, and August did not dip for the first time since 2022. Here's the rent growth number to actually use.

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Buyer Leverage

How to Tell If a Seller Can Actually Afford to Give You a Concession

Aug 25, 2026

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5 min read

How to Tell If a Seller Can Actually Afford to Give You a Concession

Home equity just hit a five-year low. Here's how to tell which sellers can still fund your concession, before you write the offer.

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Real Estate Investing

Aug 18, 2026

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5 min read

Gen Z's top states lost $27.8 billion

U-Haul's midyear map is out, and it disagrees with the IRS. Here's which one to underwrite against.

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Real Estate Investing

Aug 4, 2026

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7 min read

The refinance that costs you 7 years

The Fed held, three officials voted to hike, and the 10-year hit 4.75%. Here's what that does to your next offer.

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Real Estate Investing

Jul 28, 2026

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6 min read

Your flip loan isn't priced on you.

Flip returns just rose for the first time in seven quarters. The financing is what decides whether yours survives.

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Real Estate Investing

The Investor Glossary: 40 Terms That Decide Whether a Deal Works

Jul 28, 2026

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5 min read

The Investor Glossary: 40 Terms That Decide Whether a Deal Works

Every term The Deed Brief has defined, in one place, in plain English.

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Real Estate Investing

Sellers found a third option. It costs you.

Jul 21, 2026

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4 min read

Sellers found a third option. It costs you.

They're not cutting. They're not selling. Here's what their exit does to your next offer.

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Real Estate Investing

Jul 14, 2026

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4 min read

The housing market split in two.

One side just handed buyers real leverage. The other still punishes a lowball. Which is your metro?

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Real Estate Investing

Jul 7, 2026

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4 min read

Your rate dropped for the wrong reason.

A weak jobs report nudged rates to a 7-week low. Good news for your loan, a warning about your tenant.

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Real Estate Investing

Jun 30, 2026

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4 min read

The Fed just ended the waiting game.

The forecast just flipped from cuts to a possible hike. Here's what to stop assuming.

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Real Estate Investing

Jun 23, 2026

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5 min read

The price cut you can't see.

Asking prices just had their worst drop since 2017, but the discount isn't where you think.

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Real Estate Investing

Jun 9, 2026

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4 min read

Stop waiting for the price crash.

Inventory just turned negative year-over-year while demand hit multiyear highs. The correction most buyers are waiting for isn't coming.

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Real Estate Investing

The rate isn't your problem. Your lane is.

Jun 2, 2026

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4 min read

The rate isn't your problem. Your lane is.

Rates just hit a nine-month high. The number you control matters more than the one you don't. Here's how to find it.

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Real Estate Investing

Dalio was right. The data just confirmed it.

May 12, 2026

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11 min read

Dalio was right. The data just confirmed it.

April jobs revealed the labor side of stagflation. Here's what it changes for every deal you underwrite this year.

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Real Estate Investing

Sellers just changed how they price. Here's the tell.

May 5, 2026

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9 min read

Sellers just changed how they price. Here's the tell.

Fewer price cuts. Lower list prices. The behavioral shift Realtor.com just flagged changes how investors should hunt this spring.

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Real Estate Investing

The Fed isn't moving rates. The bond market already did.

Apr 28, 2026

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10 min read

The Fed isn't moving rates. The bond market already did.

Three weeks of falling rates without a Fed cut. Mortgage applications just jumped 7.9%. Here's what's actually moving the market.

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Real Estate Investing

The inventory story nobody's telling you.

Apr 21, 2026

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9 min read

The inventory story nobody's telling you.

Inventory growth is collapsing. Florida and Dallas are already negative YoY. Here's what that actually means for investors.

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Real Estate Investing

Sales cratered. Prices hit a record. Here's why both are true.

Apr 14, 2026

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14 min read

Sales cratered. Prices hit a record. Here's why both are true.

March home sales hit a 9-month low. The median price hit an all-time March record. For investors, that tension is the thesis.

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Real Estate Investing

The spring that almost was. Here's what changed.

Mar 31, 2026

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12 min read

The spring that almost was. Here's what changed.

Rates hit 5.98% on Feb 26. A war started two days later. Here's what investors do now.

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Real Estate Investing

Rates snapped back. Here's what that breaks.

Mar 24, 2026

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11 min read

Rates snapped back. Here's what that breaks.

6.22% this week. Was 5.98% three weeks ago. If your spring underwrite assumed a 5-handle, read this.

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Real Estate Investing

Why deals feel so close right now, but still don’t work

Mar 17, 2026

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4 min read

Why deals feel so close right now, but still don’t work

Everything almost pencils. Here’s what’s quietly breaking your deals.

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Buy & Hold

Feb 17, 2026

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5 min read

Rates aren't the story anymore

Investors waiting for 5% are missing the real 2026 edge: stability.

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Housing Market

A balanced market doesn’t mean safe deals

Feb 10, 2026

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6 min read

A balanced market doesn’t mean safe deals

The forecasts agree on the trend but they disagree on where deals actually work. That gap is your edge (or your risk).

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Real Estate Investing

Feb 3, 2026

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6 min read

Real estate isn’t broken — it’s split

The K-shaped economy is already showing up in housing. Here’s how investors pick the right side.

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Buyer Leverage

The market didn't get easier, investors just need better filters

Jan 27, 2026

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6 min read

The market didn't get easier, investors just need better filters

Inventory’s up, rents are flat, jobs are uneven. Here’s how smart investors are adjusting.

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Deal Underwriting

Rents Are Rising Again. What Rent Growth Rate Should Investors Actually Use?

How to Tell If a Seller Can Actually Afford to Give You a Concession

Gen Z's top states lost $27.8 billion

The refinance that costs you 7 years

Your flip loan isn't priced on you.

The Investor Glossary: 40 Terms That Decide Whether a Deal Works

Sellers found a third option. It costs you.

The housing market split in two.

Your rate dropped for the wrong reason.

The Fed just ended the waiting game.

The price cut you can't see.

Stop waiting for the price crash.

The rate isn't your problem. Your lane is.

Dalio was right. The data just confirmed it.

Sellers just changed how they price. Here's the tell.

The Fed isn't moving rates. The bond market already did.

The inventory story nobody's telling you.

Sales cratered. Prices hit a record. Here's why both are true.

The spring that almost was. Here's what changed.

Rates snapped back. Here's what that breaks.

Why deals feel so close right now, but still don’t work

Rates aren't the story anymore

A balanced market doesn’t mean safe deals

Real estate isn’t broken — it’s split

The market didn't get easier, investors just need better filters

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