Whenever REITs, or Real Estate Investment Trusts, are discussed, there can be a tendency to combine equity and mortgage REITs into a single group for performance analysis. An article ... Read More

The removal of the tax on forgiven debt in a foreclosure will cost some second homeowners more in taxes. In order to pay for the tax shortfall, the rules ... Read More

I've written about Properazzi.com before. This site now boasts more than 4 million listings in 50 countries. This includes long and short term rentals. Using RSS ... Read More

The October issue of Realtor® Magazine just arrived. The Tech@Work column, one of my favorites and one for which I've written, gives a very basic description of text messaging. ... Read More

Just when you might be thinking it's going to get better, there's this chart of projected price drops for homes in various areas of the country. It looks pretty ... Read More

In discussions about the huge number of real estate agents that have entered the business in the last ten years, it's frequently mentioned that perhaps the barriers to entry just ... Read More

On Monday, I referenced an article in the New York Times about REITs. The question was raised as to whether REIT shares had become undervalued and a bargain in ... Read More

Two widely followed residential home price indexes are the Case-Shiller® Home Price Index and the OFHEO (Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight) HPI home price index. The Case-Shiller is ... Read More

Well, if taking action in government can save the real estate industry from the mortgage crisis, then good times may be ahead. Talk about a one-two-three punch: The Federal Reserve ... Read More

With all the negative real estate and mortgage news, you'd think that real estate investor activity and hype would be down right now. But it seems that there are ... Read More

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REITs, Real Estate Investment Trusts, have taken a real beating this year, right along with most real estate related investments. An article in the New York Times comments ... Read More

The owner of a self-directed individual retirement account (IRA) is allowed to invest in real estate. There are those who have taken it to a new level by investing ... Read More

If your client has excellent credit and a reasonable down payment, they can probably get several quality lenders to compete for their business. Large banks, such as Bank of ... Read More

Also known as "value-range marketing", "range pricing" and "variable pricing", the strategy of placing a top and bottom end price on a listing was introduced back in the mid-1990's. ... Read More

A US District Judge has overturned a state law in Kentucky that banned their brokers from working with out of state real estate brokers in any way. They couldn't ... Read More

With inventories on the rise, fewer financing options available, and general fear about the real estate markets, it's getting harder to sell those homes. What does one do when ... Read More

Congress is currently considering changing the way that "carried interest" is treated for tax purposes. Explained fully in the NAR Bulletin on Carried Interest, in a nutshell, it's a ... Read More

If you've ever done any technical analysis for investing, the charts can sometimes predict a reversal in trend. Of course, just about the time you think you have it ... Read More

By "core" real estate, we mean established commercial properties with steady and proven income streams. They're not speculative in nature, and they've long been a desired portfolio addition for ... Read More

The OFHEO (Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight) has released the report on second quarter home price appreciation. The aggregate result shows that home prices appreciated nationally by 3.2% ... Read More

Federal Reserve Board chairman Ben Bernanke, as reported in a New York times article this morning, hinted that help might be on the way in a speech in Jackson Hole, ... Read More

The current mortgage melt-down is blamed on a lot of different groups and mortgage types. Suffice it to say that a great many home buyers received mortgages that weren't ... Read More