All the Real Estate News That’s Fit to RE-Print™
We have a hefty amount of real estate news this week:
Home prices increased 10.2 percent on a year-over-year basis, first quarter foreclosure activity is at the lowest level since Q2 2007, housing inventories picked up modestly in March, the housing industry is making important progress across many key indicators, and much more…
You recognize that today’s real estate investing opportunities are the best that we have experienced in many years. But real estate appears to be so complicated and so risky that you never do your first deal.
How can you avoid the mistakes and risks associated with being a new real estate investor?
Question: Which investments have benefited the most over the past century as a result of low interest rates and increasing inflation?
Answer: Real Estate
After the end of “The Great Depression” (1929 – 1939), many investors created wealth by picking up assets for a fraction of their values. Will history repeat itself any time soon?
A real estate investor uses education and skill to make sound investments with substantial returns. A speculator invests with the hope that the investment will actually work and make money.
Sometimes a speculator gets lucky and makes money, but the real estate investor sleeps much better…
All the Real Estate News That’s Fit to RE-Print™
* Nearly 2 million homeowners were freed from negative equity
* Home construction is off to a strong start
* Foreclosure starts and the foreclosure inventory rate made history with their decreases
All the Real Estate News That’s Fit to RE-Print™
It’s very positive news again this week:
* Foreclosure starts fell to a six-year low in January
* The Delinquency Rate fell 14% from 2011
* The national median price – biggest annual gain in seven years
The biggest mistake most flippers make can be so easy to avoid, yet so costly when it occurs. Newbies and veterans alike make it, and unfortunately, flippers rarely recognize it as a mistake at all. Instead, they tend to blame the economy, the market, or just plain bad luck.
But this mistake has nothing to do with outside factors like the economy and everything to do with….
A lot of people are jumping into real estate again. They’ve heard the news that the market has reached the bottom and that this could be the best market of our generation. They’ve heard the good news that there is still a lot of distressed housing out there and that real estate can be purchased at big discounts.
One big hurdle that everyone has to get over before jumping into today’s market is FEAR…
All the Real Estate News That’s Fit to RE-Print™
The Milken Institute just released its “Best Performing Cities 2012.” Is your city on the list? Get your copy (inside).
Zillow’s fourth quarter Real Estate Market Reports™ shows a 5.9 percent appreciation rate, the largest annual gain since August 2006. And foreclosure loans in shadow inventory decreased….
If you define flipping as buying a dilapidated property, completely renovating it and then reselling it, then such a noble act as turning a neighborhood eyesore into a beautiful home is hardly an ethical question.
Flipping houses is perfectly legal as long as there is no fraud involved. But there is the other side of the coin, and law and ethics can be two very different things…
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