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While the team at Ark7 works very hard to add new properties to the curated pool, we never lower our standard of selection criteria in driving optimal returns. Investors use Ark7 to earn passive monthly income, diversify the investment portfolio, and enjoy long-term appreciation at the time to trade or to sell. These are also the founding principles of how we select properties.
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Such business practice makes sure Ark7 shares mutual interests with our investors, and allows us to serve the community with confidence and full transparency. We know each investment decision our investors made is important, so do we.
Ark7 modernizes the entire process of property acquisition by leveraging big data and local expertise. Our models help evaluate over 100 indicators ranging from the socio-economic factors, real estate market conditions, and property-specific micro factors to identify targets that can drive stable to increasing growth overtime.
Investors rate a location’s potential based on the “Law of Supply and Demand”. Three factors typically drive the demand high in a relatively long term period: massive socio-economic development, population inflow, and friendly domestic policies. When there’s high growth in housing demand but not sufficient housing supply, price will likely rise until the balance is met again. And it stays true for both the rental price and the house price.
Take 2 recent Ark7 cases for example, we listed 3 properties in the heart of Philadelphia, where its future life Science Innovation Hub — University City — is evolving, and 3 more near Phoenix-Mesa-Casa Grande area, all within 20 minutes from the future Silicon Valley, or Silicon Desert to be precise. Both areas are under master city development plans attracting mega employers and creative start-ups to call it home. What’s coming with it is the thrive of the highly skilled workforce and increased income, bringing in young families, renters and owners.
The impact can be gradually reflected in its housing market. The year-over-year (YoY) Median Home Value in Casa Grande has been up by 34.1% since the big announcement on new construction plans of the major semiconductor manufacturer TSMC and its suppliers. 5-year Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) reaches 13.39% and is expected to continue. We do look at this metric at both time frames or even longer to past 10 years to take into account short-term impact and long-term market trend.
The good news is that Ark7 did all the due diligence to score and find the right investment rental homes, so our investors don’t have to exercise the time consuming part. While we constantly share market insights with investors, our experts at acquisition team pre-vetted each property and disclosed its key financial data and operation details on Ark7 website and mobile App to help investors make confident decisions.
Other factors evaluated at acquisition are related to real estate market conditions and communities around the property. A nice home in a community with great accessibility, pleasing appearance, and amenities like high rating public schools, parks and other living essentials are more likely to present a bigger appreciation potential. Looking at how long listed home comparables stay on the market, and how much they are sold for compared to listed price, are also helpful in projecting the popularity of a potential property to acquire. We further look into rental rate, rent-to-sale ratio, local policy on renting or zoning, natural factors that can impact insurance and maintenance cost, property tax and rent sales tax, etc, to reflect a property’s ability to make positive and stable monthly income compared to its market value, measured by the CAP rate.
When we zoom in to a specific property, the evaluation score can be very different even for neighbors in the same street. We may favor a 10 bedroom Duplex near university campus for student housing like our Philadelphia-D2, or a one story (open floor plan) kids friendly Single Family House accessible to tech company employees in Chandler or Arizona City.
In addition, the built year, the appearance of the building (exterior, structure and floorplan), conditions of the infrastructure considering local topography, all matter before placing an order. Ark7 works with professional inspectors to examine each property closely and put it out for the right type of tenants based on our rental strategy.
What you find in the marketplace are our curated high yield rental homes after thousands of hours of hard work invested by the Ark7 teams. We take what we’ve learned about each property and translate it into easily digestible information for investors. We do this because Ark7 believes the “heaviness” of real estate investment decision making and operation can be modernized by technology and data insights, and the history of real estate investing in a black box is gone.
We also make real estate investing more accessible by dividing ownership into shares that our investors can buy and trade, each share priced from a few bucks to a few hundreds. Note the trade secondary market is in its final stage of development and legal review, and will be available for investors very soon.
Ark7 grows with the investor community, and our acquisition strategy may adjust as well. We have been putting even higher priority to stable rental income in the midst of market fluctuation this year so far. Currently we are evaluating Single Family Homes with annualized returns targeting 3%+ in Atlanta, Dallas and continue to watch the Raleigh/Tampa markets and the Austin/Taylor TX markets. We continue to seek high return Multi Family Homes with annualized returns targeting 6%+.
Visit the Marketplace to see the full selection of our current list and keep an eye out for future releases.
Further Reading
Read our Philadelphia Market Deep Dive to find out why it is a great city to invest.
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Hideo Kojima took to Twitter just under an hour ago, and if you were simply doom-scrolling and not reading, you might’ve felt your heart skip a beat if you’re a horror fan. No, Kojima is not sharing any teasers from his upcoming horror project with Xbox. He simply shared the P.T. artwork again.
Again, no, there’s no new P.T. announcements. It isn’t coming back from the dead. In fact, it still isn’t even downloadable anywhere unless you’re tracking it – or its clones – down by nefarious means.
Kojima tweeted that “It’s been 8 years”, and, well, he isn’t wrong. It’s been eight years since what could’ve been the best Silent Hill game – a complete revival for the Konami series from Metal Gear Solid’s best – was robbed from us. Fortunately for me, who will not stop rambling on about P.T. and the loss of Silent Hills for the life of me, I’ve been reminded that I’m not alone.
Increasingly, digital art is changing the landscape of the art world, bringing a new opportunity to the world of art. Rather than selling a physical work, typical copyright laws, and auction houses, NFTs allow buyers and sellers to trade artworks without physical representation.
NFTs have recently been making headlines across multiple platforms. With the use of this new technology, it is possible to sell digital artworks in the form of digital tokens where digital collectors can bid on auctions and pay with cryptocurrencies, giving content creators and digital artists the opportunity to monetize their digital content in a whole new way.
When it comes to making an NFT, minting is one of the essential steps. But, How does NFT minting work?
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In simpler terms, “Minting” an NFT is uniquely publishing your token on the blockchain to make it purchasable. Files or digital products will be stored in a distributed ledger or decentralized database that cannot be modified, edited, or deleted by the owner.
1. Create a Unique Asset
Choosing a unique asset is the first step in minting NFTs. From in-game weapons to digital trading cards, there is an entire world of digital assets out there.
Imagine that you want to create an NFT that represents a piece of digital artwork. To create blockchain-based art, you must turn your digital art into data. NFTs can be built on a variety of blockchains, including Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, Polkadot, and Flow by Dapper Labs.
2. Buy Tokens
In order to use the selected blockchain, you’ll need to buy cryptocurrency. Furthermore, blockchains will affect the wallet services and marketplaces you choose, since some only work with certain ones.
As an example, you would need to purchase Ether (ETH), Ethereum’s native cryptocurrency, in order to conduct transactions. The easiest way to do that is to hit up a crypto exchange.
3. Invest in a Non-Custodial Wallet
To store your funds, you’ll need a hot wallet. Crypto wallets allow users to interact and connect with the crypto network and their accounts.
In order to mint NFTs, you should get a non-custodial wallet that gives you full control over your funds. You own the private keys to your wallet. Custodial wallets are those that are given to you by crypto exchanges. While they are more convenient, you cannot control your private keys with them.
4. Add Assets to NFT Marketplaces
There are many NFT marketplaces to choose from; you’ll need to choose one. A variety of marketplaces are available to NFT minters, including OpenSea, Mintable, and Rarible.
Users may be charged a minting fee by some marketplaces, as well as fees associated with creating an account, listing an NFT, and transacting.
In essence, the process is about picking a place and a way to do it, connecting some tools (your digital wallet and a blockchain network), and then clicking “mine.”
Learning NFT minting can be easy with the right tools, whether you want to preserve a work of art or create NFTs that you can sell or trade. Another thing you’ll need is a basic understanding of blockchain technology.
You can see how easy it is to mint an NFT. For planning and preparation purposes, it is important to pay attention to the initial requirements or prerequisites. NFTs are popular, and the process of creating them can be quite overwhelming.
Therefore, a strategically organized approach can help in the cost-effective minting of NFTs. Learn more about NFTs with Renesis and start developing yours now!
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