April 2005

Real Estate Resources

Real Estate Forms & Contracts

by Joshua Dorkin | April 30, 2005

We’ve just added a great resource for Real Estate Forms & Contracts. Check it out!

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Real Estate Law

Feds Probes RE Agents For Anticompetitive Practices

by Joshua Dorkin | April 25, 2005

From Shaun’s Real Estate Adventures: Wow. This is interesting. Feds probe real estate agents Money magazine investigation shows Justice Dept. looking into anticompetitive practices. I’ve wondered why agents are still getting away with charging 6% commission with all the discount brokerages out there. I think there are going to be serious reverberations throughout the industry [...]

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Real Estate Investing

How People Get Rich

by Joshua Dorkin | April 25, 2005

Fortune Magazine: Buying buildings and land can be hugely profitable—or a huge headache. Meet five folks who are doing it right. By Ellen Florian Kratz and Oliver Ryan There’s something about real estate that captures the imagination in a way that quarterly 401(k) statements just don’t. Perhaps it’s the realness of it. Many companies that [...]

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Real Estate Resources

New Real Estate Chatroom

by Joshua Dorkin | April 13, 2005

I’m excited to post today with wonderful news! BiggerPockets.com is proud to announce the creation of its: Live Real Estate Investing Chat! Stop by sometime to talk with other real estate investors about anything from foreclosures to rehabs to landlording, and anything else your investing heart desires! We’ll see you there!

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Real Estate Investing

Getting Started in REI for Under $400

by Joshua Dorkin | April 12, 2005

I just read a great post in Shaun’s REI Blog, that talks about how to get started in Real Estate Investing for Under $400. It is a great read, well worth checking out!

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Upcoming Real Estate Crash Will Lead to Recession

by Joshua Dorkin | April 11, 2005

Corante: U.S. residential real estate is overvalued because its purchase is subsidized. It is the only good consumers can buy while writing off the interest. Builders also have a host of tax incentives to build. Most have been in place for generations. While there has been enormous abuse of these tax loopholes over the years [...]

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Traditional Brokerages Battling Internet and Discount Realtors

by Joshua Dorkin | April 11, 2005

Business Week: “For years a battle has been looming between traditional real estate brokers and Internet-based insurgents who are threatening to turn the market inside out. Now, as the Internet companies gain clout and the fight heats up, the battle lines are becoming clear. In one camp, the traditional real estate companies and the industry-friendly [...]

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Greenspan and the real estate bubble

by Joshua Dorkin | April 6, 2005

There has been widespread denial that there could be anything like a real estate “bubble,” even given recent activity. Yet, anyone with a pulse can see wild speculation taking place all around them. If we reflect back on the stock market bubble of 2000 ­ and, yes, it was in fact a bubble ­ we [...]

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Real Estate

Average Price of Manhattan Apartment Tops $1.2 Mln

by Joshua Dorkin | April 1, 2005

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The average sale price for a Manhattan apartment topped $1.2 million in the first quarter, a new record, as the supply of properties for sale shrunk, according to the Prudential Douglas Elliman Manhattan Market Overview. The average sale price rose to $1.21 million — up 23 percent from the final quarter [...]

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