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Recently Published: Maximizing The Rent Selling your property is harder know and likely to be that way for quite a while longer. If you relocate or just want to move you may find yourself a reluctant landlord. Consider the carrying costs, not just the resale value of your property when you buy. Green Home Trends: 2010 The key to mainstreaming green homes is to make sure that consumers understand the value of green upgrades, how cost-effective energy efficiency can be in the long run. Consumers want homes that are environmentally friendly and home values should reflect the increased savings. Housings Weak Recovery: Lets Follow The Money Quarterly reports are out. NAR, Case Shiller, Consumer Confidence reports all indicate that the housing recovery is faltering to flat. Much of the Govt supports will be slowly exiting as the Fed tests the normal functions of an economy replace Federal aid. Foreign Real Estate Investors Return To The Market Afire is a non profit organization consisting of foreign investors. They produce a quarterly survey taken among the some 200 members of the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate. Participants hold approximately one trillion dollars of real estate, including $371 billion in the U.S. Foreign investment is coming to America...read more Green Homes and Sales Trends According to a recent NAR survey, 90 percent of recent home buyers thought energy efficiency was a very important consideration when searching for a home, and the demand for green buildings and environmentally sensitive home features is growing. Read more about how you can green for a better sales profile Are the Stock Markets Telling Us Something The report, released last week is another green shoot pushing upwards. Home prices in the U.S., as measured by the S&P Case-Shiller index. A look at the UMM vs. DMM stock market equivalent of the Case Shiller index confirms the move Read more... Multifamily Apartments: Get Higher Rents and Lower Your Vacancy I thought that checking out what renter value would help owners rent faster. All in the name of know your market. Renters today are looking for apartment living that can encompass all their lifestyle needs. read more... Increase Rental Income and Lower Your Vacancies Many home buyers dont really think of the rental qualities of their home purchase, yet property is holds more value partly based on rent and vacancy rates. Single family homes are, or should be, more highly valued if they can be rented fast...read more Fannie and Freddie: And How We Got to Own it All Most of the mortgages in this country are indirectly held by the US Government, since the demise of the secondary markets. A quick look at how these institutions have provided liquidity and how we got to own it all read more... Green Landlording A recent survey off foreign investors holding more than a trillion dollars in US real estate were asked to what extent a buildings green attributes influenced their decision to purchase a property. 11 percent said significantly so, and 60 percent said somewhat so. In almost the exact same percentages, investors said that green attributes were worth a greater rental premium...read more
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