Investor Strategy

Is BRRRR Still Worth It at 7% Mortgage Rates? Our Ten 2026 Strategy Calls, Graded

Rates hit 7.03%, the first 7 since January 2025. Here is our new range, and how the ten strategies we ranked in December actually did.

Should You Wait for Lower Mortgage Rates, or Negotiate the Price Instead?

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Investor Glossary: Plain-English Terms That Decide Whether a Deal Works

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

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.

The housing market split in two.

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

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.

The Fed just ended the waiting game.

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

The price cut you can't see.

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

The $7,000 mistake most buyers make

The Fed won't cut rates this week. Waiting for relief is a dead plan. Here's the one lever on your payment you actually control.

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.

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.

The one number most investors aren't watching

Two markets can look identical on inventory and price cuts. One is clearing. One is piling up. Here's how to tell them apart.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Inventory is rising. Liquidity is the real signal.

Why some listings are negotiating while others still move fast.