Regardless of their political leanings, real estate professionals and investors small and large watched this year’s presidential election unfold with an eye to its effects on the US real estate market. Although housing wasn’t a particularly hot topic during the...
Among the benchmarks of a recovery in the US housing market since 2011 is the “foreclosure pipeline” – the number of foreclosed homes reaching the market during a particular period. Although massive amounts of foreclosures were processed during the housing crash of...
Scattered signs of a housing recovery are beginning to show themselves across the fruited plain still shell-shocked by the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Housing starts in October showed the most encouraging signs of life since 2008 with a 3.6...
With most tasks we’re confronted with in life, there’s a right way to do it and a wrong way; or at least a better, smarter, more profitable way. Real estate investing is no different. While it’s certainly no crime to buy a piece of property with all cash and wait for...
The recurrent news stories about the current economic "recovery" have begun to wear on many people. What the population at large is beginning to wonder about is jobs. Specifically, why the employment situation is still so difficult in a "growing" and "recovering"...
Recent news about the US debt downgrade, the subsequent market turmoil, flow of capital into treasuries, and commitments by the Federal Reserve to more easy money are creating an unprecedented opportunity for income property investments. The stock market is becoming...
(Contributor: tungphoto) When most people think about investments, their minds immediately drift to vehicles such as mutual funds, hedge funds, bond funds, REIT’s, and other methods of pooled investments that are either managed or pegged against an index. Many noted...
One of the most critical things for any person to do in their personal, professional, or financial life is to make intelligent plans. When we simply ‘wing it’ for an extended period of time, it results in our missing opportunities because we weren’t prepared. It is...
Call it a superstorm, a perfect storm, or Frankenstorm, Hurricane Sandy plowed its way up the Eastern Seaboard on the last weekend in October, colliding with other weather systems to wreak havoc on the people and infrastructures of several states. As business and home...
Outdated property tax laws in several states allow investors to pick up properties for next to nothing, as municipalities sell liens placed on houses owing back property taxes or even municipal bills such as water and sewer charges. Although this practice has been...
