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Sam Khater deputy chief economist for CoreLogic

Completed foreclosures continue to decline, new study says

| Editorial Staff | Article, Market & Trends
Completed foreclosures continued to decline in December 2014 to 39,000 for the month, down 5 percent from November and down almost 14 percent year-over-year,  according to a a release of a new study from CoreLogic. The 12-month sum of completed foreclosures for 2014, at 563,294, is at its lowest point ...
5 red flags to help you avoid becoming a victim of real estate investment fraud

5 red flags to help you avoid becoming a victim of real estate investment fraud

| Think Realty | Article | Operations
A caution on real estate investment scams, typically spread by word-of-mouth, has been issued in a release by The Florida Office of Financial Regulation. “Real estate investment scams typically spread by word-of-mouth and require consumers to invest large sums of money in investment properties. This type of scam promises a ...
5 red flags to help you avoid becoming a victim of real estate investment fraud

5 red flags to help you avoid becoming a victim of real estate investment fraud

| Editorial Staff | Article, Market & Trends
A caution on real estate investment scams, typically spread by word-of-mouth, has been issued in a release by The Florida Office of Financial Regulation. “Real estate investment scams typically spread by word-of-mouth and require consumers to invest large sums of money in investment properties. This type of scam promises a ...
Brad Long, president of apartments.com, renters will not pay more despite increasing rental rates

Renters say they will not spend more on rent despite increasing rental rates

| Editorial Staff | Article, Market & Trends
While rents continue to rise around the country, the rate of growth is slowly decreasing. According to CoStar, the real estate industry's leading provider of information, analytics and online marketplaces, the average cost of rent nationwide increased by 0.64 percent to $1,194 a month in the fourth quarter of 2014—down ...
The biggest mistakes I have made in real estate RJ Palano blogs about mistake no. 4 and contractors

The biggest mistakes I have made in real estate investing: mistake No. 4

| R J Palano | Article, Topics
When it comes to contractors and my real estate investment business I live by the following statement: “Don’t expect what you don’t inspect.” This is true in all areas of business but especially with contractors. I used to think that all contractors started out good but after a while they ...
This house is one of three properties north of Seattle that Lawrence invested in using peer-to-peer lending or crowdfunding blog by Lawrence Fassler

How crowdfunding, or peer-to-peer lending, can help the active real estate investor

| Lawrence Fassler | Article | Operations
In my last article, I talked with you about how crowdfunding, or the use of peer-to-peer marketplaces, is beginning to change the way accredited real estate  investors can participate in real estate projects. Peer-to-peer marketplaces, and crowdfunding,  also affect how regular real estate investors can get financing for their own ...
How crowdfunding or peer-to-peer lending can help the active investor blog by Lawrence Fassler

How crowdfunding, or peer-to-peer lending, can help the active real estate investor

| Lawrence Fassler | Article, Topics
In my last article, I talked with you about how crowdfunding, or the use of peer-to-peer marketplaces, is beginning to change the way accredited real estate  investors can participate in real estate projects. Peer-to-peer marketplaces, and crowdfunding,  also affect how regular real estate investors can get financing for their own ...
4 reasons someone would sell you their house at a discount blog by Kevin Guz

4 reasons someone would sell their house at a discount to you, a real estate investor

| Kevin Guz | Article, Topics
Why would anyone sell you, a real estate investor, their house at a discount? Every real estate investor will face this question at some point. Those thinking about investing in real estate will all have this question posed to them, if they have not already. If they are not being ...
Mortgage rates remain unchanged in latest Bankrate survey

Mortgage rates remain steady, but worry over increase remains

| Editorial Staff | Article, Market & Trends
Mortgage rates were little changed, with the benchmark 30-year fixed mortgage rate holding at 3.80 percent, according to a release of Bankrate.com's weekly national survey. The 30-year fixed mortgage has an average of 0.30 discount and origination points. The survey is complemented by Bankrate's weekly Rate Trend Index, in which ...
Downward pressure on mortgage interest rates remains strong

Downward pressure on mortgage interest rates still strong

| Danny Johnson | Article, Topics
Parts of this report will seem like an April Fool. The US 10-year T-note has jumped a quarter-percent in four days, half of the springboard Friday morning on wild news from the job market. Mortgage damage is limited, low-fee deals still just under 4.00%. The first Friday each month brings ...
Texas housing has second best year in 2014

Second best year on record in 2014 for Texas real estate

| Editorial Staff | Article, Market & Trends
The Texas housing market closed out 2014 with one of the highest fourth-quarter single-family home sales volumes in Texas real estate history, according to a release from the Texas Association of Realtors. "A dip in mortgage interest rates below four percent in the last half of 2014 created an ideal ...
5 things landlords and investors need to know about renting to Millenndials

Why Millennials are important to landlords and 5 things you need to know

| Larry Arth | Article, Topics
Talking with my daughter, who is a Millennial, has provided important insight to me as I have studied this group and its rental and housing needs and written about that for other investors. It has been almost a psychological journey into my daughter’s era, shedding light on many past conversations ...
Doug Duncan chief economist for Fannie Mae says consumers are not yet ready to move on housing

Economy will drag housing upward in 2015 says Fannie Mae

| Editorial Staff | Article, Market & Trends
Driven by strengthening private domestic demand, economic growth is expected to accelerate modestly this year and drag last year's unspectacular housing activity upward, according to a release by  Fannie Mae's Economic & Strategic Research (ESR) Group. The economy is expected to climb to 3.1 percent in 2015, up from the ...
2 reasons to quit your 9-to-5 job and invest in real estate blog by Engelo Rumora

2 reasons to quit your 9-to-5 job and invest in real estate

| Engelo Rumora | Article, Topics
Many people seek real estate investing for various reasons. Here are the two major reasons that I’ve come to find why most people quit (or decide to replace) their day jobs with real estate investing: Reason No 1: Because working for someone else… STINKS “If you don’t build your dream, ...
3 ways to make money on every real estate lead blog by Kevin Guz

How to make money on every real estate lead

| Kevin Guz | Article, Topics
There are a lot of new real estate investors, I imagine, who have just hit the market. They are hot and excited and want to go out and buy every house that they can. One of the lessons they will quickly learn, and that I learned as a new investor, ...
The Fed seems caught in old rules and old polices blog by Lou Barnes

The Fed seems captured by old rules in old models

| Danny Johnson | Article, Topics
First the facts, then the ponderables. Long-term US interest rates fell again Friday, now to a 20-month low. The 10-year T-note broke through the 1.70% prior low to 1.66%, down from 1.85% on Monday and from 2.30% in Christmas week.(Meanwhile, on Wednesday the Fed affirmed its intention to “liftoff” from ...
Christopher Urso Apartment Investing

Apartment investing: Invest your time wisely

| Cristopher Urso | Article, Topics
I ask this question all the time at our three-day Multifamily Investor Weekend: What is the one thing that you can’t buy more of? That’s right. Time. Even the most efficient person only gets 24 hours in his or her day. It makes sense that we want to maximize our ...
Stan Humphries, chief economist for Zillow, says more low-end homes will come on the market in 2015.

Many lower-end sellers now in a position to put homes on the market

| Editorial Staff | Article, Market & Trends
Many homeowners in the bottom third of their markets are finally in a position to sell, just in time for Millennials to enter the housing market in greater numbers in 2015, Zillow Real Estate Market reports predicts in the release. Homes in the bottom third of home values bottomed out ...
Affinity Enterprise Group

Affinity Media Group acquires Personal Real Estate Investor Magazine

| Editorial Staff | Article, Market & Trends
Affinity Media Services (AMS), a division of real estate investment market leader Affinity Enterprises Group (AEG), announced Friday that it has entered into an asset purchase agreement with NEXZUS Publishing Group, the publisher of Personal Real Estate Investor Magazine, PREI Investor Review Series and The Invaluable Investor Study; and promoter ...
3 steps to overcoming fear in purchasing your first real estate investment property

3 steps to overcoming fear in buying your first investment property

| Kevin Guz | Article | Fundamentals, Operations
Many times people thinking about buying their first investment property are anxious or scared. So how do you overcome the fear factor? I guarantee there are many people out there who put down on their resolutions and goals for 2015 that they want to buy their first investment property. You ...
3 steps to overcoming fear in buying your first investment property

3 steps to overcoming fear in buying your first investment property

| Kevin Guz | Article, Topics
Many times people thinking about buying their first investment property are anxious or scared. So how do you overcome the fear factor? I guarantee there are many people out there who put down on their resolutions and goals for 2015 that they want to buy their first investment property. You ...
Lou Barnes weekly financial advice for real estate investors and thoughts for 2015

Mortgages approaching 70-year low and likely to continue lower, housing is flat

| Danny Johnson | Article, Topics
A wild story still unfolding, most of it overseas. The result here at home: mortgage rates near 3.75% and the lows of the year -- and the tilt in chart-pattern witch-doctoring to lower yet. Rates will rise only on substantial good news, somewhere. The only domestic economic data of note: ...
Rick Sharga of Auction.com says real estate investors more likely to flip when buying at auction

Flipping slightly edges out buy-to-rent investing when buying at auction new study says

| Editorial Staff | Article, Market & Trends
A new study shows a slight inclination for real estate investors to lean toward flipping rather than buying to rent, although investor intent varies by the type of auction and the investor's individual profile and business model. The nationwide survey of real estate investors bidding on properties at auction in ...
The biggest mistakes I have made in real estate RJ Palano blogs about mistake no. 3

The biggest mistakes I have made in real estate: Mistake number 3

| R J Palano | Article, Topics
A few years back I purchased a home in New Port Richey, Florida, just north of Clearwater. I didn’t knock on neighbors’ doors at that time. If I had knocked on the neighbors’ doors, I would not have bought that house. The neighbors across the street made it very difficult ...
Landlords now have an opportunity to build a long and thriving business Larry Arth writes in this week's blog for real estate investors

Landlords now have an opportunity to build a long and thriving business as rentals increase

| Larry Arth | Article, Topics
My biggest pet peeve is when people tell me that I am lucky. They say things like, “You are so lucky you get all the good deals,” or “You are so lucky your tenants always renew their leases” or “You get all the good tenants” or “You can take off ...
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