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Maryland and Virginia Real Estate Markets Show Promise
Last week, I started looking into the Washington, DC Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), which consists of the District of Columbia, Northern Virginia and parts of Maryland. Given the growth in the...
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Why Exercising Could Make You a Wealthier Investor
I hate running. I pretty much hate any form of exercise. I have no problem doing my real estate work, but when it comes to working out, I’ll admit I’m very lazy and lack discipline.I remember many of...
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Kennewick, The Stolen Salmon & Why Real Estate Is Booming There
First of all, I should tell you that I do not have the faintest notion why those dudes stole the freaking salmon from a fish hatchery in Kennewick, Washington! I can only tell you that, according to...
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Is The Housing Market Overheating . . . Again?
It seems that in these past two weeks, we have experienced a tremendous increase in relatively negative news regarding the real estate market. Usually I just chalk up all this negativity to the media...
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National Headlines & Local Realities: Finding Great Real Estate Deals
If you read the headline that shouted, November new home sales sink 11 percent, without knowing your local market, you could easily believe it was aimed at you. On one hand, it certainly could apply to...
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Investigation into Pending Home Sales Reinforces Recovery
On the 5th of January, the National Association of Realtors released its latest Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI), showing a 16% decline over October. Almost immediately the media seized these numbers...
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Multigenerational Home Buying Gaining Momemtum
Make room for Mom.A growing number of home buyers are looking for extra space to accommodate multiple generations of family, according to a recent Coldwell Banker survey of real estate agents.Almost 40...
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Is It Time For You to Get Outa Dodge? From Flip to Keep to See Ya!
My all time favorite axiom was taught to me by Grandma one day at their Art Shack in Temecula. It was during summer vacation, I was about 10 or so, and it was HOT. Grandpa was in the middle of one of...
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Home Buyer Credit Extension Does Its Job, but what’s next?
Crunching the recent Pending Homes Sales Index (PHSI) numbers revealed the home buyer credit extension worked. The extension proved not to have diminishing returns as the index nearly matched the...
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Maybe It’s Time to Invest in Canadian Real Estate
The world has been watching Canada this year. Not because the winter Olympics were here, but because Canada escaped the global economic crisis with minor cuts and bruises while many other countries are...
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Real Estate Is Local (Except When It Isn’t)
I just finished reading Ryan Hinricher’s article on The Week In Housing, as I typically do every Monday. By show of hands, who else likes to see this report?Ryan provides a nice synopsis of some key...
View ArticleWhy does it feel like Goldman Sachs is Slurping our Homes
IS IT JUST ME or are institutional investors also raiding your city? Here I loosely define ‘institutional investors’ as ‘organized money’, something backed by a well oiled capital machinery. Because...
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The Investor Swoon: Real Estate Non-event of 2012
I suppose it’s not too early for year-end awards, so I would like to kick off the season with a nomination for Real Estate Non-event of 2012.I call it The Great Investor Swoon that Never Happened.About...
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Nationwide ‘Shadow Inventory’ Dwindling. Why?
Statistics compiled at the close of last year demonstrate that the fabled ‘shadow inventory’ of unsold houses had fallen 12.3% year-over-year as of October 2012. This will come as a relief to housing...
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Home Values Climb at Greatest Rate Since 2006
While it has become clear that the housing market is turning a definite recovery, figures from FY2012 demonstrate that the average price of homes sold nationwide has appreciated at the fastest yearly...
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Will the Housing Market Encourage Job Growth?
We were fortunate to see the housing market return to health in step with consumer confidence last year. The nationwide average in real estate values climbed steadily through the close of 2012, and...
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The Elephant in the Real Estate Room
Rarely articulated publicly but high on the agenda for many traditional real estate folks is the question: How soon will it be before those foreclosures they converted into rentals flood back onto...
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Why We Should Worry About Accidental Investors
You probably know someone who had to move during the depths of the housing depression but they didn’t want to—or couldn’t—sell their home into the worst housing market in 70 years. So they rented it...
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2014 Resolution: Where are Multifamily Assets Headed?
Investors you are only 68 days away from 1/1/2014. 2014 is upon us! Have you made you investment resolution? As an investor it is important to understand your asset class market and make investment...
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3 Questions to Determine If We Are In a Multifamily Bubble
First, a story torn from the history books: “In 1593 tulips were brought from Turkey and introduced to the Dutch. The novelty of the new flower made it widely sought after and therefore fairly pricey....
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