The Real Estate Professional

3Sep/0917

Role Of Real Estate Agent In Vacation And Second Home Markets

Role Of Real Estate Agent In Vacation And Second Home Markets

Second home sales have been increasing over the last few years with more people becoming second home owners. In 2005 alone, 40 percent of the homes sold were second homes. Demographics, all time low mortgage rates, and healthy rise in home prices have contributed to this development in the second home market. Besides these, a major factor that has helped augment the buying and selling of second homes is the real estate professional.

The National Association of Realtors conducted

1Sep/0911

How to Start Real Estate Investing and Hit the Ground Running

How to Start Real Estate Investing and Hit the Ground Running

This article covers six dynamite real estate investing tips intended to help anyone just getting started in real estate investing to successfully launch and hit the ground running with real estate investment property.

1. Develop the Correct Attitude

To stand a chance of succeeding at real estate investing, foremost, you must understand that real estate investment is a business, and you will become the CEO of that business.

As your first order of business, t

1Sep/0912

Buying Real Estate Using Rent-To-Own And Lease-Purchase Options

Buying Real Estate Using Rent-To-Own And Lease-Purchase Options

Owing a home is a big part of the American dream. But not everyone is fortunate enough to become a homeowner due to delimiting factors such as insufficient income, bankruptcy, bad or no credit, loss of employment, etc. For people with such troubles, owning a home is a distant dream and some of these people resign themselves to a lifetime of renting. But such people are not without options. Rent-to-own, which is also known as a lease-purchase option, can be an excellent alternative available t

21Jul/0910

Real Estate Tidbits: Gardens More Than a Labor of Love

Real Estate Tidbits: Gardens More Than a Labor of Love

Green Happiness

“He who plants a garden, plants happiness” is an old saying. However, things have changed a lot nowadays. Today, the proverb could be thought of as “He who plants a garden, plants money!” When it comes to selling a house, landscaping is an important factor that determines the value of the property. Real estate gurus believe that gardens around a house can contribute more than 10% to the total value of the property. Moreover, the houses with attractive garden

21Jul/0920

Baby Boomers Will Drive Real Estate Growth

Baby Boomers Will Drive Real Estate Growth

Baby boomers, baby boomers, baby boomers; we all hear this term over and over again. So who are the baby boomers? Baby boomers are people in the United States who were born between 1946 and 1964. Approximately 78.2 million people fall into this category.

As a group, baby boomers comprise the largest population cohort in the history of the United States. The size of the group gives it vast influence over American politics, popular cultural, and of course, real estate. To evaluate

10Jul/0910

Make Money With Real Estate Investing

Make Money With Real Estate Investing

The Real Estate Investment is an expectation that uses investor's money to invest in real estate properties or mortgages. A financial device that invests for the most part of the real estate such as apartments, offices, hotels, shopping centers, or warehouses. In real estate be inclined to pay high returns making them charming investment opportunities, especially when the stock market is falling. In high service requires them to pay out at least 90 percent of their taxable income each year in

5Jul/0919

Growth, Stability of Commercial Real Estate Investing

Growth, Stability of Commercial Real Estate Investing

Commercial real estate investing is a kind of investing which is used for business purpose. The commercial real estate investing property is different from other real estate investing like agriculture, residential and other industrial purpose. Commercial real estate investing property provides reasonable price consideration from the investment property and also provides income for long period. In real estate investing, real estate investors make investment on commercial real estate investing.

25Jun/0920

Why Should You Buy Investment Real Estate In College Towns?

Why Should You Buy Investment Real Estate  In College Towns?

Now seems to be the best time to invest in properties in college towns where housing demand is high due to a soaring rental market according to the New rules of real estate by Business 2.0 Magazine. With home prices still out of home buyer's range, and homeowners selling their homes due to rising interest rates, rents are expected to increase nationwide. This makes buying investment property in rental markets such as college towns an attractive option, one that is already being pursued by inv

16Oct/0811

New Home Mortgage Loan Troubles – Did We Not Learn From Past Real Estate Mistakes

New Home Mortgage Loan Troubles – Did We Not Learn From Past Real Estate Mistakes

It seems that the decision makers running the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac government refinance programs did not learn anything from the current, and continuing, housing bust.  If bad loans got us into the current mess, why do Fannie and Freddie think that more bad loans will get us out?  In a recent press release it was announced that the two government-owned agencies will now refinance loans up to 125% of the current home’s value!

Does this spell trouble for the FHA home loans? All

7Jul/0811

Tax Solutions Group Offers The Best Way To Save Real Estate Tax

Tax Solutions Group Offers The Best Way To Save Real Estate Tax

It is an undeniable fact that there are several ways available around us that are enough to make us king or even beggar any time depending upon the situations. There are some options that can make wonders for one person, on the other hand can prove really fatal for the other. One such option that offers the immense opportunity to make good money is by buying liens.

 It is important to note that a person can become very rich by buying liens, but the homeowner on whom the tax liens is i