development

Real Estate Interviews

Stephan Gietl of the mckafka Development Group on the South Florida Real Estate Market

by Ronald Sklar | July 29, 2011

Stephan Gietl met his business partner, Fernando Levy-Hara, while attending Harvard’s Advanced Management Development Program in Real Estate. They formed the mckafka Development Group and immediately ventured where lesser men fear to tread: overly built South Florida. In a few short years, the partners have built quite a lemonade stand, picking up distressed properties by [...]

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New York Real Estate

Starwood Brings Aloft to Harlem: First Major Hotel Development Since 1967

by Joshua Dorkin | October 13, 2010

Although the New York neighborhood of Harlem has experienced a resurgence over the past decade or so, there was always still something missing — but that is about to change. On November 4, Starwood will be opening a boutique Aloft hotel at 2296 Frederick Douglas Boulevard, in the heart of Harlem. The Aloft will be [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Residential Land Development – Part 3: Zoning, Design and Financing

by Craig Grella | October 23, 2009

To recap Residential Land Development Part 2, we discussed the importance of performing an economic feasibility study with cost estimating to determine a max price land offer and whether or not there is enough profit in your potential deal to warrant spending more time on it, or actually developing the land.

Assuming you’ve done that initial research and arrived at the conclusion your numbers look good, you’re ready to go back and do it all over again. This time you’re going to be more exact with your numbers. To do that, you’ll really need to hone in on the potential design of your house, and to do that you need to research what’s possible on your lot. You do that by learning all you can about the zoning codes in your city. These are the third and fourth steps in the residential land development process.

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Economy

Real Estate Dispatch – Christmas Eve Edition – 12/24/06

by Joshua Dorkin | December 24, 2006

Welcome to the Christmas Eve Edition of the Dispatch! I’ve got a little time, so I just wanted to share some headlines I found to be interesting . . . The Kansas City Star picked up on the recent foreclosure report from the Center for Responsible Lending and discusses Foreclosure rise forecast: Nearly one in [...]

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Commentary

A Review of GovHomeUSA

by Joshua Dorkin | November 23, 2006

There are tons of great resources out there for real estate investors and I try my hardest to bring the best of the best to you all. I spent some time today exploring GovHomeUSA, a site that lists properties for sale by various agencies in the federal government, including those from HUD and the VA; [...]

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BiggerPockets News

BiggerPockets Helps “Victims” of Real Estate Scandals

by Joshua Dorkin | October 12, 2006

BiggerPockets is proud that we’ve been able to provide a forum for possible “victims” of what some claim to be a massive real estate fraud. For the past few months tens of thousands of current and possible investors have flocked to BiggerPockets Forums to exchange information and help one another stay abreast of fast moving [...]

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Pinnacle Development Partners

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Charges Pinnacle Development Partners, LLC With Fraud

by Joshua Dorkin | October 11, 2006

Here is an update for everyone with the latest news on Pinnacle Development Partners LLC. According to Reuters (full article), the U.S. Securities and Exchange Comission (SEC) today filed fraud charges against Pinnacle and its founder, Gene O’Neal, claiming that it operated a ponzi scheme. “The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia [...]

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Blogs

Under the Investing Carnival Big Top

by Joshua Dorkin | September 26, 2006

The latest edition of the Investing Carnival took place today over at Investing World Today, and featured Real Estate Investing for Real. Our Pinnacle Development Partners Under Investigation article has now been mentioned in 3 blogging carnivals this week. In addition, with over 11,000 views and over 100 replies, our Pinnacle Discussion forum thread has [...]

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BiggerPockets News

More Blogging Carnivals for Real Estate Investing for Real

by Joshua Dorkin | September 25, 2006

In addition to the Carnival of Real Estate, we were also mentioned today in the HJL Money Blog for the Carnival of Business regarding our post investigating Pinnacle Development Partners.

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Blogs

Time for the Carnival of Real Estate

by Joshua Dorkin | September 25, 2006

at the Matrix Blog. You can find our post investigating Pinnacle Development Partners in this edition of the Carnival.

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$2 Million in Development Funds Up For Grabs in Upstate New York

by Joshua Dorkin | August 9, 2006

Upstate New York is some of the nicest country around, but many of the upstate cities like Rochester and Buffalo are extremely run down; thus, investment properties can be found in both of these cities for dirt cheap prices. The New York State Affordable Housing Corp just announced that it is going to make available [...]

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