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How Multifamily Buyers Co-Create Dysfunctional Buyer-Broker Relationships

admin — Thu, 24 May 2012 22:39:28 +0000

There is a common complaint among multifamily buyers. These buyers complain of seeing the same listings over and over again from a barrage of brokers that do nothing more than push paper around, and yet these buyers do not realize how they are co-creating these conditions. They never really grasp that in order to improve [...]

SaveAndInvest.org – Control Debt – How Your Credit Score Impacts Your Financial Future

admin — Thu, 17 May 2012 19:26:16 +0000

Getting Ready to Invest – How Your Credit Score Impacts Your Financial Future Many people do not know about the credit scoring system—much less their credit score—until they attempt to buy a home, take out a loan to start a business or make a major purchase. A credit score is usually a three-digit number that [...]

Builder Is Constructing REIT for Home Rentals – WSJ.com

admin — Wed, 09 May 2012 20:18:47 +0000

Investors can buy stakes in malls, apartment towers, timber forests and even cellphone towers through real-estate investment trusts. Now, add to the list: single-family homes transformed into rental properties.Beazer Homes USA Inc., one of the nation’s top home builders, has formed a REIT that will buy and then rent single-family homes, one of the largest [...]

Multifamily Momentum Will Continue

admin — Tue, 08 May 2012 21:14:15 +0000

The multifamily sector is in good shape for the foreseeable future, according to Calvin Schnure, NAREIT’s vice president of research and industry information, despite some market concerns about a rebound in new construction. He pointed out that there are approximately 3 million households that have “doubled up” since 2008, and many of those residents will [...]

NAR Commercial Lending Survey: Are Lenders Asleep At The Switch? | The Source For NAR Commercial Real Estate

admin — Tue, 08 May 2012 06:01:12 +0000

Economic recovery is here – but is it just for the biggest commercial real estate deals? Are lenders failing — again — to support our industry by extending credit only to heavy hitters and leaving the rest behind? That’s the finding of NAR Commercial’s latest Commercial Lending Survey. Although commercial RE markets show signs of [...]

Tight Lending Standards Hindering Commercial Real Estate Recovery | realtor.org

admin — Tue, 08 May 2012 05:25:21 +0000

WASHINGTON May 3, 2012 – Although commercial real estate markets showed signs of recovery in 2011, commercial lending standards have tightened in the past year for small businesses and scuttled a major portion of contracted transactions for smaller properties, according to the National Association of Realtors® annual Commercial Real Estate 2012 Lending Survey. via Tight [...]

REITs: Looking Sweet on the Balance Sheet – On Wall Street

admin — Tue, 01 May 2012 19:30:57 +0000

The apartment market, on the other hand, has seen a lift from current market conditions. “The apartment sector has benefited from the weak housing market,” Grupe says. “Many families have lost their houses through foreclosure, plus with housing prices still weak and falling, it doesn’t give people a lot of confidence that buying a house [...]

|Equity Trust Company| Farmland Helps Client Grow his Financial Future

admin — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 21:54:02 +0000

Interesting story….”Kurt Amundson has taken his real estate IRA rural to plant an investment that is already flourishing into quite a nest egg.Amundson used his knowledge about farmland to buy up land through his retirement account and rent it out to create a constant stream of passive income. The Starbuck, Minnesota, resident had bought and [...]

Strong U.S. retail sales ease growth worries | Reuters

admin — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:15:00 +0000

Reuters – Americans shrugged off high gasoline prices in March and spent more strongly than expected, suggesting economic growth in the first quarter was probably not as weak as many had feared. via Strong U.S. retail sales ease growth worries | Reuters.

Made in the USA Again: What Onshoring Means for Commercial Real Estate

admin — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:55:46 +0000

Since mid-2010, Master Lock, a manufacturer of padlocks and other security products, has brought 100 jobs back to Milwaukee that had previously been off-shored. Obama used the factory to discuss his Blueprint for an America Built to Last, which seeks to incentivize further creation of manufacturing jobs within the U.S. while removing deductions for shipping [...]