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Economy

Outsized Economic Stimulus Packages can Cause Long Term Harm to Mortgage Rates

by Steve Heideman | January 20, 2009

After a strong start Monday and Tuesday, mortgage markets suffered alongside stock markets in the latter half of last week, leaving mortgage rates higher on the week overall.  Market losses were especially steep Friday and mortgage rates headed into the long weekend on a strong uptick.  Regardless, the reasons that mortgage rates rose last week [...]

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Real Estate Market

Great Job Markets Usually Mean Great Housing Markets,

by Brendan O'Brien | January 11, 2009

Here’s a link to the best 30 job markets in the nation, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
I wouldn’t be surprised to find that they include some of the 30 best housing markets in the nation as well.  By that, I mean housing markets where the current prices are relatively low, and where [...]

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Economy

10 Economic Indicators You Should Know

by Anwell Tsai | January 8, 2009

1. Average workweek of production workers in manufacturing
2. Average initial weekly claims for unemployment
3.New orders for consumer goods and materials, inflation adjusted
4. Vendor Performance
5. New orders, non-defense capital goods
6. New building permits issued
7. Index of stock prices
8. Money supply, adjusted for inflation
9. Interest rate spread: 10 yr Teasury notes and 3 month T bills
10. Index [...]

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Commercial Real Estate

Buy an Apartment Building With a Tool Chest of Knowledge

by Ted Karsch | December 31, 2008

When people first decide to buy an apartment building it is common for them to make a few easily preventable mistakes. The most common error that I see new investors make is not having what I like to refer to as the “investor tool chest”.
For example, if you wanted to build a house you would [...]

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Landlord Tenant

Current Market Conditions and Rental Cash Flow

by Troy Schuricht | October 16, 2008

The perfect storm is underway to help landlords cash flow on their rental purchases in certain market places.  The dramatic decrease in  home prices, underwriting guidelines that require larger down payment, low interest rates and the increased number of renters can lead to more cash flow for investors.
Market places across the country have seen [...]

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Commentary

Newspeak or Bankspeak?

by Ted Karsch | September 16, 2008

The parallel I find most striking between the language used by financial executives and the language used by the fascists in 1984 are what Orwell referred to as “Newspeak”.

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Real Estate Investing

“Doom and Gloom” Media Good For Real Estate Investors

by Rob K. Blake | August 31, 2008

The media reports of late are all “doom and gloom” focusing on foreclosure numbers, price declines, and inventory levels. One might start believing real estate as an investment class is a bad pick and could stay that way for a long time.
Don’t believe it for a second…but before I make my case, [...]

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Economy

Greenspan Gives Guidance on Housing Market

by Rob K. Blake | August 16, 2008

Alan Greenspan, the controversial former Fed Chairman, in an interview by the Wall Street Journal’s David Wessel gave us a few pearls of wisdom to ponder about the state of the housing market.
He starts out with a prediction calling for a stabilized market by summer of 2009. Greenspan admits depending on the size of [...]

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BiggerPockets News

On the Brink of Rebellion: National Priorities and the Housing Crisis

by Tom Koziol | August 8, 2008

A friend of mine sent me to this website: National Priorities Project
The headline on the page reads:
National Priorities Project analyzes and clarifies federal data so that people can understand and influence how their tax dollars are spent.
There is a link titled Affordable Housing Units on the page that tells you how many affordable housing [...]

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Commentary

The Mortgage Crisis: Watch Out For The BIG Wave

by Charles Feldman | August 5, 2008

It’s NOT over yet! In fact, it may have only just begun?

We have already seen the economic destruction wrought by the so-called sub-prime mortgage crisis, as foreclosures escalated in many parts of the country, contributing greatly to putting the credit market in a tailspin from which it has yet to recover and may not for [...]

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Commentary

Housing Rescue Bailout and the Future of Lending

by Tom Koziol | July 31, 2008

This must be a bad week for my state of mind. Nothing, including the new housing rescue bill, has been positive regarding the housing scenario. In fact, two of our local banks were even caught up in the debacle and were FDICized.
It seems these banks had to be taken over with Mutual of Omaha as [...]

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Housing

Hedging The Real Estate Market A Must For Investors

by Rob K. Blake | July 20, 2008

Hedging is the practice of risk mitigation for Wall Street investors and we in the real estate investment world could learn a thing or two from the boys in the power ties.
A good working definition of “hedging” to get started:
“An investment made in order to reduce the risk of adverse price movements in a security, [...]

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Commentary

Real Estate’s Perfect Storm – Are you ready?

by Rob Powell | July 6, 2008

“BOOM!  Here comes the BOOM….ready or not!” – from the song Boom by P.O.D.
Greetings from the Metropolis of Cedar Crest, New Mexico!
With a torn achillies tendon, I hobbled my way into the gym and turned up my Ipod.  The song Boom by P.O.D. (one of the best workout songs there is) came on and I [...]

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Credit

July 4th Foreclosures: Congress Celebrates, Homeowners Vacate

by Charles Feldman | July 2, 2008

To just about no one’s surprise, the U.S. Congress failed to act on a foreclosure prevention measure before closing down for the long July 4th weekend. And, some think the Congress won’t do all that much once the weekend is over, either.

A New York Times estimate is some 55,000 more homes will be in foreclosure [...]

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Economy

Declining Home Value + Increased Cost Of Gas = Major Headache

by Charles Feldman | June 18, 2008

In deciding whether to buy a home in a distant suburb, you may want to sit down and do some hard and honest calculating about the cost of gas for your commutes–a cost that is going up at the same time housing values are going down in many parts of the nation.
It is ironic, of [...]

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