Tag Archives: real estate

Sold! $48 million apartment

Posted on April 11, 2012 by

Who is purchasing the most expensive real estate? Although buyers from around the globe are investing in the downturn in the U.S., the Russians are writing the biggest checks, according to The New York Times.
Since the real estate market crashed four y… Continue reading →

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Cashing in on the crash

Posted on March 28, 2012 by

Investors who have been avoiding real estate are getting back in, even embracing one of the tactics that got so many in trouble in the first place: flipping.
As the housing crisis drags on and foreclosed properties continue to come onto the market, inv… Continue reading →

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Good time to invest in a rental?

Posted on August 17, 2011 by

Home prices and mortgage rates are low, the number of potential renters is increasing and the stock market is in the midst of bear-market gyrations. So is this a good time to invest in rental real estate?
Investors seeking ways to diversify their stock… Continue reading →

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Foreclosure delay, delay, delay

Posted on June 16, 2011 by

Ominous numbers from RealtyTrac this week. The online marketplace for foreclosure properties says foreclosure filings in May were 33 percent lower than in May 2010, while, at the same time, the inventory of unsold, repossessed homes went up.
Even as fo… Continue reading →

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Tell your success story

Posted on May 26, 2011 by

We want to tell some post-crash real-estate success stories. Need some help.
Have you noticed that the real-estate crash is almost always written about as a bad thing? House prices have been falling for the past five or six years, and everyone acts lik… Continue reading →

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Why not test drive a home?

Posted on May 6, 2011 by

You would never buy a car without a test drive. Apply the same concept to home buying and you may get a free stay.
A Florida homebuilder is inviting potential buyers stay in one of their furnished newly built homes and for two nights and three days for… Continue reading →

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Compound gives up bin Laden

Posted on May 3, 2011 by

Follow the real estate.
That’s a liberal misappropriation of the usual cliched instruction that investigators should “follow the money.” But it’s nonetheless an apt idea in light of the fact that at the end of a 10-year manhunt, it was Osama bin Laden… Continue reading →

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Welcome to ‘housing purgatory’

Posted on March 28, 2011 by

I blinked twice at the figure: 638 days. That’s the average time it takes from an initial missed mortgage payment for the bank to complete foreclosure proceedings and change the locks here in Florida, the Foreclosure State. Nearly two years of free ren… Continue reading →

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