Archive for the 'Real Estate Investing' Category

Buying a home these days involves a lot of major decisions – one of which concerns some of the most important people in your life: your children. Having children changes the decision-making equation dramatically.

With the large number of bank sale properties on the market, many potential homebuyers are filling out home loan applications and seeking approval from their lender. We all know that getting approved for a home loan is a bit more difficult due to the strict lending standards imposed by banks after the real estate market crash. As a result, it’s crucial to understand what banks look at when approving a home

In today's real estate market, many have turned away from living in the city - especially with rental rates skyrocketing - and have instead decided to purchase land and build new homes. This decision works very well for some, but is a very important decision that requires a lot of thought, just like buying a

Finding the right property to buy in today's real estate market seems harder than it really is to most. After all, plummeting prices and doom-and-gloom news have made it seem like housing is a bad investment - but it isn't. On the contrary, pre-foreclosure homes - homes that are facing foreclosure but haven't yet started the process - are terrific opportunities to obtain great homes at incredible

A report released today revealed something about the real estate market that we’ve been preaching about for a while now: There is an abundance of undervalued homes on the market that are ripe for the

Finding foreclosure deals is hardly a difficult thing in this market. With hundreds of thousands of foreclosures on the market all across the country, finding a property that meets standards and is discounted significantly from the original listing is simple

The real estate market has been more or less in a continual downward pattern over the past five years, ever since the real estate bubble burst spectacularly in 2007. For homeowners and lenders, the results have been

The real estate market may be reeling in America – at least, from the prospective of some – but the Blackstone Group, the largest private-equity company in the world, says

Real estate markets move in cycles, as anyone in the industry knows. One decade they’re up; the next, they’re down. Of course, over the past 20 years we’ve become accustomed to prolonged boom cycles that have defied historical predictions and created one of the biggest real estate bubbles in our history. Plus, currently we’ve been through five straight years of declining prices, rising foreclosures, tighter lending [...]

The first half of 2011 has come and gone, and for the real estate market, the results are less than desired. Home prices have fallen this year by 3.2% across the nation over the past six months, and while home prices picked up by 0.9% over the last quarter, they are set to fall once more throughout 2011. However, there are some cities that mark for incredible investment opportunities as they are actually expected to see an increase in home [...]

Real estate is always moving, even in slow economic conditions like today. Even though the housing market crashed and residential sales have plummeted, the door is still wide open for investors to pick up discounted properties and turn significant profits in the

We’ve commented on numerous occasions here about how the real estate market is in the gutter and has been for several years now. But, what we also take care to point out is that the market is in the gutter for sellers who are faced with falling home prices on a monthly

The real estate market is littered with the corpses of residential and commercial construction and development projects that were begun either before or just after the real estate crash in 2007 but never came to completion due to the economy. Most of these are still there, waiting for investors to come in and rescue them from the same kind of stalled, vacant life that you typically only see in North Korea

As the struggle to reform and revive the real estate market continues, one major organization is gearing up for a fight to keep the housing crisis on the agenda of lawmakers all across the

Real estate agents in Houston, Texas, sold fewer residences during the month of March 2011 compared with one year ago. This marks the second consecutive month that sales of houses have dipped in the metro area. However, residential prices posted improved figures during the month compared with the same 2010