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Real Estate

What’s the Value of Your Home?

by Anwell Tsai | January 22, 2009

With the ongoing deluge of foreclosures and short sales, it has become more and more difficult to determine what the market value of homes are. The market value is the most probable range of values in which a typical buyer and a typical seller will agree to terms with in an at arms length transation.
Foreclosures and [...]

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Appraise This: An Examination of Real Estate Appraisals

by Meghan Busch | December 12, 2008

Note: The ring above is not the ring in question.
When something bad happens, we want someone to blame. Yesterday I dropped my husband’s wedding ring into my favorite crystal glass for safekeeping while he was doing handy work, and the glass broke under the weight of the ring. Frustrated and heart broken, I wanted to [...]

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Which Housing Stats to Trust?

by Anwell Tsai | November 6, 2008

Commentators speak of numerous broad housing indicators and indexes tracking property values across the nation.  However, Real Estate, unlike Stocks and Bonds, are not fungible.  Properties are non-homogenous and are affected by both broad economic macro and local micro factors.  Due to market inefficiencies, the usefulness of data derived from these broad indicators is limited.
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Financial Crisis vs Fundamental Analysis

by Anwell Tsai | October 9, 2008

The news has been saturated with reports about the financial bailout, the Secondary Mortgage Market, Securities and Derivatives. In these troubled times, it is important to understand the fundamentals of Real Estate analysis. There are a variety of models and tools that can help us better understand changes in market conditions and can even simulate [...]

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