Is Now A Good Time To Sell Instead Of Buy Real Estate

Housing prices have continued to rise over the past year as listings have dropped by about half. Given this super-competitive market, is now a better time to sell or should you continue your acquisition cycle? In this episode, we discuss the investing philosophy and considerations you should take when thinking about selling your property. --- Transcript Pierre: Welcome to another episode of the remote real estate investor. I'm Pierre Carrillo. And today I'm here with the usual suspects Tom, Michael and Emil. And today I'm going to be asking them about rising home prices in the markets right now. And if it's a good time to sell instead of buy, so let's jump into it.   Pierre: Alright guys, so, like we talked about previously, my brother and I are working on buying some houses right now. And one of the things that we're seeing is that compared to last year, active listings on the market are down 52% the prices of homes are climbing continuously, there's like 16% up year over year and they're continue to climb. A lot of the projections are saying that they're not going to drop anytime soon. Is this a good time to sell? Are you guys selling? And if not, like when is a good time to sell?   Michael: Yeah, such a good question. Tom do you want to take a first crack at it?   Tom: What's the acronym that Bitcoin guys say hodl, hudl, huddle? Do you know I'm talking about?   Emil: HODL!   Michael: We're not all Bitcoin guys. Now, Tom, we don't know what that is.   Tom: I'm sorry. I'm excited. I bought my first little fractions sliver of one. And I just am using their acronyms now HODL.   So yeah, Pierre good question on, you know, looking at some of the stuff I think for myself, and I would assume also for Michael and Emil, is that we're pretty long term bullish and going through year over year, like there are going to be some trends. But like, over the long time, like, the way that I think about building my real estate portfolio is I just want to build this big cash flow machine. And like, yes, there's going to be fluctuations on like, what's available for sell prices are doing but looking at my North Star is just building this long term growth machine. Like I can't be like chasing a car just like falling metrics. And like, Oh, I should sell right now.   So it's like having a long term perspective. That's not to say that I don't sell because I think sometimes it is opportunistic to sell. A lot of my more recent dispositions have been consolidating in specific markets. So let's say I have a property in like a corner where I don't want to have any scale in that market, maybe it makes sense to sell it, maybe I've caught some nice appreciation, you know, I had a property in the corner of market where they have like, I didn't have a lot of properties. And also there was like, some, like legitimate, like weather concerns of like floods and stuff and like I don't want to sweat that out every single time if I'm not planning to get you know, the right kind of insurance to protect myself against that. So my meandering answer of a question is you know, sometimes there is a place to sell but I you know, I won't sort of panic sell and in monitoring those metrics, because I use my North Star to hang on to so enough pontificating Tom, somebody Michael Emil jump in quick.   Michael: So I think it's a really good question, too. And so I actually am in the process of selling a couple properties. I think I've talked about it on a couple episodes in the past, but I have a six unit out in the Midwest that I'm under contract to sell. And then I just sold a luxury condo in Southern California.   Tom: Oh, congrats, man. That closed.   Michael: Yeah, that close. So I was super excited, thanks for short story long is that they asked for a reduction in rent, because of COVID, which we were happy to give them. The property wasn't cash flowing. Really before that. So then it was a little bit negative. And I said, You know what, there's been so much appr