One short email a week: the 3–5 best-screening real estate investment opportunities in Greater Boston that crossed our desks — each with cap rate, cash-on-cash, the rent band, and the catch. Screened by the operators behind 1,500 doors.
Sourced the way we found 255 Newton St and 37 Franklin St — before the crowd.
The deals. 3–5 properties that survive our quick screens — on-market listings worth a second look, and the occasional off-market note when one can be shared.
The numbers. Every deal arrives pre-analyzed: price, realistic rent band from our operating book, cap rate, cash-on-cash, and the honest operating costs listing sheets leave out.
The catch. Every building has one — the 20-year-old roof, the below-market tenant, the flood-zone corner. We name it, because you'd find it eventually anyway.
"I'm not ready to buy yet." Perfect — reading a season of analyzed deals is the fastest way to calibrate your eye before you spend a dollar. Start with how to analyse a property like a pro and the 5 costly mistakes first-time investors make.
"Won't these be picked over?" The screens are ours, not a syndicated feed — most of these deals look ordinary until the numbers are run. That's the point. See how we're uncovering opportunities in Boston's market right now.
"What's in it for you?" Some readers eventually want an operator on their side of a deal. That's the whole business model, and it only works if the feed is genuinely good.
"How do I know the yield on a screened deal is real?" Neighborhood-average cap rates mislead more often than they help — see how to evaluate rental yield on any specific Boston property before you trust a headline number.
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