Real Estate Market
Commentary by Charles Feldman | August 5, 2008It’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 [...]
Commentary by Tom Koziol | July 31, 2008This 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 [...]
Housing by Rob K. Blake | July 20, 2008Hedging 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 [...]
Commentary 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 [...]
Credit by Charles Feldman | July 2, 2008To 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 [...]
Economy by Charles Feldman | June 18, 2008In 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, [...]
Real Estate Market by Tom Koziol | June 13, 2008Everybody knows a recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose your job. Apparently more of us are coming closer to depression than we would like to believe. The data you are about to read is from the June 2008 edition of Collections & CREDIT RISK magazine. This particular [...]
Foreclosures by Tom Koziol | May 23, 2008Just Surfing for Foreclosure Information As I was surfing the Net looking for foreclosure information, I stumbled across a study titled: HOUSING POLICY DEBATE VOLUME 17 ISSUE 1 NOTE: The study is copyrighted by the Fannie Mae Foundation. One of the co-authors, Geoff Smith, is a vice president at the Woodstock Institute, a policy group [...]
Real Estate Investing by Mike Farmer | April 30, 2008I read several posts lately about the dire nature of the real estate market with questions about whether now is a good time to invest based on the “badness” of the market. These are sensible warnings and no one can be faulted for calling a spade a spade. However, the assumption that someone is in [...]
Learn Real Estate by Troy Schuricht | April 18, 2008Due diligence is a term used for a number of concepts involving either the performance of an investigation of a business or person, or the performance of an act with a certain standard of care. It can be a legal obligation, but the term will more commonly apply to voluntary investigations. A common example of [...]
Commentary by Michael Creel | April 15, 2008Taking responsibility sometimes requires one to find an alternate path in life. I often hear and read stories about people “walking away” from their financial obligations and responsibilities simply because it’s not in their best interest to honor them, or it’s simply become to stressful. As a Realtor, I’ve certainly not been immune to the [...]
Commentary by Jim Watkins | April 13, 2008Last week, someone posted a question about whether or not geography was a factor to Texas not appreciating like the rest of the country in recent years. It got me to thinking and I recalled a local presentation (Dallas) I had done in 2006 where I addressed that very question. In Texas, there are three [...]
Commentary by Jim Watkins | April 4, 2008During a class I was teaching in 2005, one of the students asked why all the “idiot” California investors were flocking into town and buying newly constructed houses for as much as $0.90 cents on the dollar? His question drew some laughs from others in the room and they also wondered why they would pay [...]
Learn Real Estate by Mike Farmer | April 1, 2008We all know about changes. Change happens all the time. The city you’ve lived in for years looks nothing like it did 5, 10, 20 years ago. Ride around the city, now looking at it as an investor, and everywhere you’ll see once successfully operating buildings now sinking into disrepair, or the businesses operating out [...]
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The Mortgage Crisis: Watch Out For The BIG Wave
by Charles Feldman | August 5, 2008It’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 [...]