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What is the Future of Mortgages Due to the Financial Crisis?

Posted by: Investors Lounge Online in Sub Prime Lending, Refinance, Recession, Real Estate Investment, Real Estate Agents, Pre Foreclosure, Mortgage, Market Prediction, Market Bubble, Loan To Value, Legislation, Investment, Foreclosure, Financing, Equity, Economy, Credit Report, Credit Cards, Commercial Real Estate, Bankruptcy, Bank Owned, ARMs, Appreciation on Sep 28, 2008

Weighing out the Financial Crisis This current talk of financial bailout suggests that as a result mortgage rates will fall allowing a surge in home buying especially for first time buyers. Still one must wonder how long this will last but also what are the long-term impacts for the housing market? Right now it feels like the lending industry is distressed but this may not be true for very long. The banks at risk of

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Structuring Your Financing

Posted by: John Burrows in Refinance, Real Estate Investment, Mortgage, Investment, Financing, Equity, Appreciation, Analyze on Jul 28, 2008

Understanding the fundamentals of finance known as the time value of money is key in real estate investment. Such causes as inflation make the real value of a dollar less in the future than it is worth now. Because of this principle, buying property outright in cash does have its drawbacks, financially speaking, because another use of that cash may actually benefit the investor in the future

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Getting the Income Property For Your Money

Posted by: Alan Brown in Real Estate Investment, Market Prediction, Investment, Equity, Due Dilligence, Appreciation, Analyze on Jul 21, 2008

All investors including ones new to the playground know that the "golden grail" to succeeding in the real estate business is location. Location is the alpha and the omega of the real estate world. The common mistake is many assume that high-end prime location property is the be-all to end-all but that is simply not the case. Although those locations are often sought after they are not always

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How is Your Housing Market Relative to Mine?

Posted by: Investors Lounge Online in Recession, Real Estate Investment, Pre Foreclosure, Foreclosure, Flipping, Economy, Appreciation on Jul 08, 2008

Determining the period of time when house pricing will stabilize in the U.S. can be equated to playing a game of chance in Vegas, and placing $20,000 on Black at a roulette table. While the talking heads with their doctoral degrees may disagree as to when exactly housing markets will stabilize one thing is for sure, sometimes when you are told that the sun will shine, all your given is clouds

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Appreciation of Land and Houses

Posted by: Elliot Barron in Real Estate Investment, Investment, Appreciation on May 19, 2008

There have been huge shifts in the real estate industry in the last few years. While the market have seen a dramatic downturn, and interest rates have tumbled, sellers and buyers are asking themselves what it all means, especially when it comes to property values. The topic of "appreciation" is one of particular interest, and I'm not talking about a broker buying you a hand-held vacuum as a

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