Tag: Property Investing

A white-hot housing market has many West Coast buyers finding that they need to pay excessively high prices for older, less fashionable homes. Kenny Slaught notes that home prices have been steadily rising since 2008, with common reference, the Standard & Poor’s Case-Shiller home price index, revealing that Los Angeles home prices reached their highest point during April of this year since October 2007. Having moved beyond simply recovering from the recession, Southern California’s larger metropolitan areas are approaching their former peaks. Slaught says the turnaround is due to a number of factors, including interest rates, job growth and supply and demand. As current 30-year, fixed-rate mortgages hover around 3.5% or less, these enticing numbers are nearing 3.31 percent (the record low hit in November 2012) and are encouraging many to buy. Historically low rates, coupled with strong employment numbers, such as a 2.4% gain in Los Angeles County and a 3.5% rise in Orange County, note why values have appreciated in an extraordinarily fast-paced manner. And even though home prices fluctuate considerably statewide, inflated asking prices on higher-end options are second only to Hawaii. The feverish demand for housing cannot currently be met by the slim supply available, with many first-timers forced to pursue condominium-style units: available and within a more modest price range.

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Aside from a sought after tourist destination, Santa Barbara has presently become a center for young and developing businesses, said Kenny Slaught. Dozens of promising, new companies have been founded in recent years, and many, including AppScale, LastLine, TrackR, and Salty Girl Seafood, have come directly out of the University of California Santa Barbara. With over $200 million raised for area startups from private investors in the last year, the Central Coast boasts nearly twice the investment per capita in innovation than the greater Los Angeles area, a much larger market. While some may feel the tempting pull of Silicon Valley or Hollywood, local entrepreneurs recognize the significance of building a business in an environment that promotes growth. As a result, the region is one of the best places in the country to launch and cultivate startups, spawning remarkable biotech, medical, technology, and scientific businesses like Inogen, Raytheon, Sonos, and BioIQ.

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Kenny Slaught, real estate professional, details the classic features of the Spanish Colonial architecture found throughout the California city of Santa Barbara. He highlights the architect who brought the style to the area, as well as discusses several places throughout the city that are great examples of the architectural style at work.

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Kenny Slaught, real estate professional in Santa Barbara, talks about the Spanish Colonial architecture throughout the city and how its integrity has been upheld over the years. He discusses the history of George Washington Smith, the architect who inspired the movement of the architectural trend through California and how he developed and tailored the style.

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The service and hospitality industry is another field that offers great opportunities at competitive salaries and that gives graduates the chance to perfect their crafts and pursue their goals of becoming a great chef, manager, or hotel administrator. The Culinary Arts and Hotel Management program available at SBCC is diverse and touches up on many different aspects of the service industry of all different sizes. Acquiring skills like these can help people find jobs not only locally, but project to relocate practically anywhere else in the world. Kenny Slaught point to another interesting aspect of the program, “It can prepare students to start their own businesses and fulfill their dream of becoming a business owner and working for themselves.”

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As a Santa Barbara property investor and successful entrepreneur, Kenny Slaught keeps a close eye on community developments. Recently, he reviewed on his blog at KennySlaught.com some great career opportunities and training programs offered by Santa Barbara City College specially designed for those not pursuing college credits but instead learning something new. The Santa Barbara community is a space that provides its citizens with many prospects for career advancements and professional training in skillsets relevant in the real world. Having mentioned previously the many ways the community comes together to push forward programs benefitting all of those who call Santa Barbara home, Kenny Slaught previewed the many programs offered for those interested, including Computer Network Engineering, Culinary Arts and Hotel Management, Environmental Horticulture, Graphic Design, among others.

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Having only been in the market for a short time, crowdfunding portals have rapidly helped over 150 startups grow nationwide, specializing in real estate. In 2016, approximately 7% of the U.S population are accredited, investors. In urban settings like Southern California, this number reaches 20%. Software platforms including CrowdEngine, RealtyShares, CrowdForce, among others, made legally raising money from the general public possible, with some fundraisers going as far as generating 90% of equity requirement through direct community contributions. Data analytics applications like Rentlytics provide owners a greater transparent window into the performance and management of their portfolios. With a robust background in developing state-of-the-art properties for over 35 years, Kenny Slaught is confident that, in the real estate tech scene, California will remain one of the most active states in the market. Using cutting-edge innovation tools to pool funding, borrowers and sponsors have pooled more than $53 million through 90 residential, multifamily, and commercial properties in Sacramento, San Francisco, and the Bay Area.

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Technological development is revolutionizing America’s real estate industry, making the property management sector increasingly efficient and profitable. Platforms which offer numerous online collaborations and, more importantly, workflow automation are growing in popularity, in large part because of their ability to provide prompt access to accurate and consolidated data and information flow. Kenny Slaught, the president and founder of Santa Barbara-based Investec Real Estate Companies, shares his insights into what California developers can do to best apply innovative models and cyber operations to their business strategies.

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Kenny Slaught admires the keen eye and attention to detail that is essential to designing structures with such artistic excellence. It has been almost 100 years since famous architect George Washington Smith, brought this artistic excellence to Santa Barbara, by what is known as the Spanish Colonial revival. He was a man who dropped out of Harvard to eventually become a bond trader. He eventually moved to the Santa Barbara region anticipating a relaxing lifestyle and planning to work on his painting interests. What came as a surprise was that everyone admired the house he had designed, prompting him to continue creating architectural masterpieces for other local residents. By using authentic materials from Spain and combining new and old world designs, George Smith’s works are sought out and enjoyed for their simplistic beauty and complex design. Known as a founding father for Santa Barbara, subsequent architects have been inspired by his style for many generations.

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Kenny Slaught, a passionate Santa Barbara real estate professional provides insight into how the architectural integrity was upheld throughout the years. Recognized as a world famous tourist destination, this scenic California town, just north of Los Angeles, is rich with history. From Spanish inspired homes to intricately adorned archways and structures, the city was developed with the intention of maintaing its majestic charm. As early as 1925, city planners enacted development controls to prevent waning of Spanish Colonial architecture. The community was the first in the United States to proactively think about the importance of historic buildings adn controls were put in place a to preserve unique structures and park spaces.

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