Second Half Home Affordability Could Reach Highest Levels In A Generation
- NuWire Investor - Thu 09/09/10 08:19:38 pm
Home sales reports continue to paint a very mixed picture of the current market, and prospects of a housing recovery remain murky at best. The brightest part of the picture, an increase in home affordability, keeps dim hopes alive in the near future. See the following article from The Street for more on this.
Pending home sales rose 5.2% in July from the month earlier bu...
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Can the Obama Administration’s New Stimulus Plan Revive the Housing Market?
- NuWire Investor - Thu 09/02/10 05:21:04 pm
Worries about the sorry state of the U.S. economy have officials from the Obama administration digging deep into their bag of tricks to stop the skid before it slips into a double-dip recession.
Their latest move was announced Sunday when Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan said the White House plans in the next few weeks to set up an emergency loan pro...
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MOBILE HOME INVESTING: Banks Should Post Warning Labels
- by Lonnie Scruggs - Tue 08/17/10 10:08:21 am
Today’s mail brought an unsolicited brochure from one of the local banks entitling me to open a premium interest rate CD or IRA account. In large bold print, it goes on to say I will earn one of the highest rates available in years. Their chart shows how I can invest $1,000 for 2 years and earn 5.5%, 3 years 5.75% and if I leave my money in their bank for 5 years, I’ll earn a...
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Survey Finds That Majority Of Housing Markets Are Improving From Last Year
- NuWire Investor - Thu 07/22/10 07:27:07 pm
Buyers looking to close on home sales in time to collect the homebuyer tax credit pushed existing home sales up in June 5.6% compared to the same month a year ago, according to a monthly survey of 54 metro areas conducted by the national brokerage chain ReMax.
In addition, Denver-based ReMax said home sales prices were up 3.5% year-over-year. Compared to May, transaction volume was up 7.2...
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Invest in Multi-Family Properties with a Self-Directed IRA
- NuWire Investor - Thu 07/15/10 10:44:12 pm
Make self-directed IRA investments in multi-family properties and more without distribution penalties A self-directed IRA through Guidant Financial Group gives you true mastery of the money in your retirement plan. With the ease of writing a check, you can make both alternative and traditional investments within the same account...and save thousands in traditional transaction and asset-based fe...
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Some States Offering Homebuyer Incentives Of Their Own
- NuWire Investor - Sat 07/10/10 12:36:57 pm
With the homebuyer credit drawing to a close, pending home sales and sales of existing properties suffered record declines in May. States like California and Texas have launched their own housing stimulus measures, but the threat of a double-digit price drop in the year ahead still remains. See the following article from Property Wire for more on this.
Sales of previously owned properties...
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Depreciation and Manufactured Homes As an Investment
- by L. A. Tony Kovach - Mon 05/17/10 11:02:20 am
There is a long standing belief that all manufactured homes (what many used to call "mobile homes") will "automatically" depreciate once it is purchased. While it is true that manufactured homes have lost value from their initial purchase price, this is not historically a given. There are many examples of manufactured homes which have appreciated (gained) value. It should also...
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Mortgage Rates Stay Near Historic Lows
- NuWire Investor - Thu 05/06/10 08:06:36 pm
Mortgage interest rates remain near historic lows, despite rising .04% in the last week, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association, providing strength to the nations home market. Many banking analysts expected rates would rise when the Federal Reserve halted buying mortgage-backed securities to strengthen the economy.
However, a sampling of ten major cities mortgage rates show little...
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Acquiring Real Estate Financing In Difficult Times
- NuWire Investor - Thu 04/15/10 05:01:49 pm
While acquiring real estate financing has become more challenging, there is also lesser competition for the capital that banks are willing to lend. Having the right mix of savings, credit score and debt-to-income ratio will improve your chances of securing a loan for investment properties. See the following article from JasonHartman.com for more on this.
Investors today are obvio...
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Real Estate Investing: What Is Rehabbing?
- by Matt Gerchow - Sun 04/11/10 06:24:58 pm
Renovate and Retail aka Rehabbing Another form of Real Estate Investing profit we will talk about is
‘Rehabbing or Renovate and Retail.’ It is important you understand the ‘ins and
outs,’ of this business making a wrong move might end you...
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Manufactured Housing Market Creates Tremendous Opportunity for Investment Returns
- PRNewswire - Fri 04/09/10 11:14:49 pm
MIDWEST PARTNERS CONSOLIDATE AND PREPARE FOR EXPANSIVE GROWTH
CHICAGO, April 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Opus Holdings, a privately held equity and real estate fund, today announced the formal re-structuring and consolidation of its manufactured housing community portfolio under Four Leaf Properties. The restructuring consolidates over 2500 manufactured housing sites u...
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The 7 Steps To Successful Negotiations For Real Estate Investors
- by Tom Bukacek - Tue 04/06/10 10:22:48 am
Negotiations is not a science, rather it is an art and the degree of success most often depends on the negotiator’s knowledge and application of various tips, strategies, and tactics. No matter how good you are, you will not always be able to produce a successful negotiation. Some negotiations inevitably fail to achieve agreement. But the purpose of this article is to assist you i...
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Mobile Home Parks Verses Apartments - Which is the Better Investment?
- by Diane Ayers - Fri 04/02/10 09:10:53 pm
Family History
We are in our third generation of rental property investors. My father founded our business when I was a little girl. My husband and I purchased our first property in 1974 and our sons are now in the business, as well. We have owned and operated apartments and mobile home parks. There are many reasons why we prefer parks over apartments, so let's go...
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Is real estate a better investment than mutual funds?
- Atlanta Post - Mon 03/15/10 10:02:01 pm
It's 1 a.m. and you are up late. You know that you should be in bed; but for some reason, you are still awake. So you say to yourself that if you watch a little late night television, you will eventually fall asleep. You know there is typically not much worth your time at this time of night, yet you watch anyway. You flip through the channels, and come across what looks to be the same live prog...
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9 Habits Of Successful Real Estate Investors
- NuWire Investor - Fri 03/12/10 11:28:57 am
While there is no degree one can earn to become a successful real estate investor, most successful real estate investors do share similar characteristics. Having and working a plan, building a strong network of mentors and advisors, staying on top of changes in the market, being vigilant in portfolio management and treating people well, are just some of the characteristics of successful real es...
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What Investors Might Want to Know About Tax-Deferred Exchanges
- by James R Kobzeff - Sun 02/21/10 09:41:54 am
A Section 1031 tax-deferred exchange is a true benefit to real estate investors and certainly worth understanding. In this real estate investing article, we will discuss tax-deferred exchanges from several standpoints in hopes of giving you at least an idea of what it is and what is required to...
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Boston, New York investors to buy Champion Enterprises for $50 million
- Crains Detroit Business - Fri 01/22/10 12:05:00 am
Champion Enterprises Inc. has signed a letter of intent with a group of investors to sell all of its operations and emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
The Troy-based manufacturer of manufactured and modular homes filed for bankruptcy in November.
The company has reached a deal for a group of investors to put up ......
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Real Estate Market Should See Surge In Spring
- NuWire Investor - Fri 01/08/10 03:11:02 pm
Pending home sales in November dropped 16 percent from the previous month. Despite the dip, residential real estate transactions in November 2009 grew year-over-year and with the extension and expansion of the tax credit, analysts believe that home sales will surge during spring 2010.
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How To Invest In Mobile Home Parks
- by Steve Gillman - Wed 01/06/10 09:36:47 pm
Mobile home parks are known for their cash flow, and this
will usually grow in time. I asked a real estate agent if the mobile home parks
in this area ever are for sale. Almost never, he told me, because they provide
so much cash flow that owners don't want to sell. That's worth remembering.
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Investing in Mobile Homes with Land
- by Tony Colella - Tue 01/05/10 10:14:04 pm
During this economic recession and credit crisis, real estate
and mobile home investors are experiencing a change in the dynamics of
investing. What worked during a period of easy money, affordable financing
and ra...
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Why Invest In Land During Economic Downturns
- by Gregory Akerman - Fri 12/18/09 08:51:15 pm
The world's economies are experiencing tremendous falls. In the media
through television, radio and newspaper people are constantly talking about
economic crises, recession and credit crunch. The trembling terror of bank
cris...
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- HowCast - Thu 12/17/09 07:09:41 pm
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National Homes Prices Rise For 2nd Month
- NuWire Investor - Mon 12/14/09 06:55:56 pm
For the second consecutive quarter home prices nationwide continued to rise, while still remaining below 2008 levels. Gains were attributed to improving home sales, low fixed mortgage rates, first time homebuyer incentives and loan modification efforts which reduced the number of foreclosures. See the following article from HousingWire for more on this.
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