Category Archives: Real Estate

Kenny Slaught Notes Success Despite Fluctuating Market

Founding principal and president of Investec Real Estate Companies Kenny Slaught has boldly guided his investment, management, and development brand through several market cycles with consistent success. As a respected figure in the Southern California residential, commercial and industrial property scenes for over three decades, he has built a legacy through unexpected variance while besting… Read More…

Kenny Slaught Gets Success Despite Fluctuating Market

Founding principal and president of Investec Real Estate Companies Kenny Slaught has boldly guided his investment, management, and development brand through several market cycles with consistent success. As a respected figure in the Southern California residential, commercial and industrial property scenes for over three decades, he has built a legacy through unexpected variance while besting… Read More…

Kenny Slaught States Intuitive Software Driving Market Forward

New intuitive software and mobile apps, Kenny Slaught says, are giving investors and builders a greater selection of lending and borrowing opportunities across numerous real estate asset classes and geographies. California’s crowdfunding, or peer-to-peer lending, projects evolved after the state adopted the Jumpstart Our Business Startup (JOBS) Act in 2012, which significantly loosened the ways… Read More…

Kenny Slaught Discusses How Tech Advances Shape Real Estate Market

Technological improvements have revolutionized America’s real estate industry, making the property management sector increasingly efficient and profitable. Platforms which offer numerous online collaborations and, most importantly, workflow automation are growing in popularity, in large part due to their ability to provide quick access to accurate and consolidated data and information flow. Kenny Slaught, the president… Read More…

Kenny Slaught Talks About the History of Architecture in Santa Barbara

Famous architect George Washington Smith, inspired the California movement called the Spanish Colonial revival almost 100 years ago. Smith dropped out of Harvard to eventually work as a bond trader. Once a successful businessman, he moved to the Santa Barbara community anticipating a relaxing lifestyle and planning to work on his painting abilities. What surprised… Read More…

Kenny Slaught On Modernization And Discovery In Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara is not only a famous tourist destination, but also a hub for new and developing businesses, Kenny Slaught says. Many new companies formed in recent years, and most of them, like AppScale, LastLine, TrackR, or Salty Girl Seafood, came right out of the University of California Santa Barbara. With more than $200 million… Read More…

Santa Barbara Real Estate Professional Kenny Slaught – Discusses the History of Architecture in Santa Barbara

Famous architect George Washington Smith, inspired the California movement called the Spanish Colonial revival almost 100 years ago. Smith dropped out of Harvard to eventually work as a bond trader. Once a successful businessman, he moved to the Santa Barbara community anticipating a relaxing lifestyle and planning to work on his painting abilities. What surprised… Read More…

Kenny Slaught On Continuing Proposition 13 Affects Relocation

Many factors influencing California’s real estate market are particularly Californian, traced back to the general scarcity of land in desirable locations. Undeveloped land costs are exceptionally high, especially within the Los Angeles and San Francisco metropolitan areas. Kenny Slaught says there are regular delays in construction of new projects, which forces many homeowners to stay… Read More…

Kenny Slaught And Architecture Of Coastal California

Maintaining its natural charm, city planners enacted development controls to prevent demolition of Spanish Colonial architecture in 1925. The community was the first in the country to really think about the importance of historic buildings. Regulations were put in place and guidelines were designed to keep unique structures and park areas, and in 1960 Santa… Read More…

Slaught Says ‘Californian’ Factors Affecting Real Estate Market

Other major influences on the current market are particularly Californian in nature, and can be traced back to a general scarcity of land in desirable areas. The costs for undeveloped land are prohibitively high, most notably within the Los Angeles and San Francisco areas. Kenny Slaught points to consistent delays in new construction, which results… Read More…