In this episode of the Top of Mind Podcast, Mike Simonsen sits down with Charles McKinney, Co-founder and CEO of Vontive, to talk about the landscape for real estate investors in this volatile market. Vontive sees loan data from thousands of real estate investors, which gives them unique and real-time insight into how investors act in this market.

Charles gives his outlook for real estate investment in 2023 and beyond, discusses some of the risks and opportunities for investors in the current market, and highlights technology trends he’s excited about. He also shares some eye-opening findings about investor sentiment from Vontive’s recent nationwide housing and economic survey.

About Charles McKinney

Charles McKinney is the Co-founder and CEO of Vontive, a new digital way to finance investment properties, with a white-label solution that empowers any business serving real estate investors to launch its own investment-property mortgage business in 1-2 weeks.

Charles is a real estate and mortgage analytics pioneer. He started his work with Freddie Mac, led analytics at the real estate investor portal Auction.com, and is a pretty prolific real estate investor in his own right.

Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn: 

• Whether investors are optimistic or pessimistic about real estate in 2023
• What happens to real estate investor business models when the Fed’s policy shifts from easy money to tighter policy
• What the future looks like for small real estate investors as big Wall Street money is gaining market share
• How landlords are getting creative with rental business models, and how business models may have to shift in the future with more expensive capital
• Trends in short-term rentals and other innovations in real estate
• How technology innovations remove cost and friction from loan transactions

Featuring Mike Simonsen, CEO of Altos Research

A true data geek, Mike founded Altos Research in 2006 to bring data and insight on the U.S. housing market to those who need it most. The company now serves the largest Wall Street investment firms, banks, and tens of thousands of real estate professionals around the country. Mike's insights on the market have been featured in Forbes, New York Times, Bloomberg, Dallas Morning News, Seattle PI, and many other national media outlets.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Charles McKinney on LinkedIn
• Vontive
• Rebuilt
• Ken Corsini HGTV
• Red Capital Lending
• Certain Lending
• Mike Simonsen on LinkedIn
• Altos Research

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