Archive for the 'Real Estate' Category

ABC News had a good interview with a mortgage broker. His exact words to his real estate agent clients were “The party is over”. Last year, people were getting 100% mortgages on $600,000 and $700,000 homes even when they couldn’t prove they had any assets or income to guarantee repayment of the loan. If the [...]

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If you’ve been monitoring the financial news, you’ve seen headlines about foreclosure’s being up.  Here’s one about a major southern state… one in every 123 households was in foreclosure!
This means that people with money to invest - liquidity - are moving to buy properties that have potential for the future at what they consider a [...]

He’s the world’s most hated blogger according to the Sydney Morning Herald.
He had tried to make it big in real estate by “flipping homes” and getting fraudulent loans.
Now the young Californian is $2.2 million in debt and trying to monetize his blog traffic and notoriety to get on with life in Sydney after leaving his [...]

Do you market mortgage loans for a living?
Are you tired of “living” or “dying” because of interest rate fluctuations?
Are you tired of people stealing your business by quoting a lower rate you know is bogus?
There are ways to solve these problems through positioning yourself as an expert instead of another interest rate peddler.
If you need [...]

Do you need a professional real estate agent to sell your house?
The answer to that question has important ramifications for people pursuing real estate as a home based business.
According to CNN/Money 
Economists conducted a study on whether paying for a real estate agent was worth the money, when having to pay 5 or 6 percent commissions, [...]

There’s one thing about those real estate books (or any book written during a “boom”). They say whether the boom is long gone or not.  So the tactics appropriate for one market era in the 80’s for example may not work if you pick up the “best selling” book twenty years later.
As one of my [...]

He cashes in on cheap, shabby homes from his front porch according to ABC news:
“I do most of my buying from right here,” said Barnes, while sitting on the porch. “I do whatever I want to do. If I want to go fishing, I go fishing. As long as I have a cell phone and [...]

An interesting situation is emerging in the UK that could create unique real estate opportunities for investors and consumers alike.
In the UK real estate market, mortgages were sold called “endowment mortgages”. Endowment mortgages are mortgages where the interest on the principle of the mortgage loan is due. The principle of the loan is covered [...]

MSN is reporting how FEMA is preparing to auction off 20,000 mobile homes. Mobile home dealers feel the federal government might flood the market.
Buying and selling used mobile homes (by “toting the note”) is a brand of real estate all by itself.
If that sector of real estate is “your baby”… you may get alot more [...]