Investing Your IRA

This report is by Paige Tepping.   When it comes to investing, everybody has certain goals and aspirations. However, we have found that there are certain guidelines every aspiring real estate investor needs to know: 1. Compare property values and rents Financial statistics only go so far; the best measure of a property's ...

Christine Van Tuyl and Margaret La Grange, an award-winning mother-daughter team with Prudential California Realty in Coronado, have compiled their latest list, the “Top Twelve Tips for Buying an Investment Property.”  “Real estate investors aren’t necessarily all-cash buyers with millions in the bank,” said Van ...

This article was written by the CMPS Institute www.CMPSInstitute.org   Real estate investors and vacation home buyers represented 35-40% of all residential property purchases in the years before the market downturn. Yet, many of these same investors are now experiencing serious negative equity and cash flow issues, and they are ...

This article is by Jennifer D. Meacham, a business and personal finance columnist for The Oregonian and co-author of “IRA Wealth: Revolutionary IRA Strategies for Real Estate Investment” (Square One Publishers). This month, we answer one of many questions we’ve received on the strategies real estate professionals are taking to ...

The combined total of vacation- and investment-home sales declined with the overall market in 2007, but still accounted for 33% of all existing- and new-home sales, which is close to historic norms, according to the National Association of Realtors®. The market share of homes purchased for investment last year was 21%, down from 22% in 2006, ...

The next 12 months will be the best time to invest in the U.S. housing market, according to a new report by Housing Predictor. The sub-prime loan melt down has produced a near record level of foreclosures, providing the highest number of lower priced homes in many years in a majority of the nation’s real estate markets. Housing prices in ...

It may be a bad time for flippers looking to make a quick buck, and their departure from a demand-driven market has certainly contributed to a drop in home prices. But for investors who view real estate as the keystone of a long-range financial plan, there may be no time like the present to buy-and hold. A New Approach to Buying Greg Rand, ...

Eric Bramlett of One Souce Realty in Austin, TX has the following tips for investors in this New Year:   1. It's not as easy as it looks on TV "Flip This House" is a fantastic television program - that's about as realistic for the average investor as "Sponge Bob Square Pants." The problem with TV real estate ...