If you have listened to any of our seminars or joined us at some of our huge educational seminars across Canada alongside The Real Estate Investment Network (REIN), you will have heard us talk about the many different things that you need to analyze before buying a piece of real estate. This article is a …
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A measure of U.S. home prices jumped 4.6 percent in August compared with a year ago, the largest year-over-year increase in more than six years. Like Whoa!! Talk about a defining headline. Moreover, talk about a headline that screams, “We told you so.” As we have written and explained in our seminars and educational materials, there are a lot …
No s*#t Sherlock! We are usually not the type to rub it in, but in thise case, all of the clients of US Property Shop and our loyal blog followers will have figured out that Florida bottomed a long time ago. A new home sales measure says Florida prices hit a soft bottom in 2009, …
Prices rose 1.8 percent in the second quarter, compared to the first three months of the year. They rose about 3 percent compared to the same period last year. This is the first time since 2007 that prices have increased for 2 consecutive quarters and that is a tremendous vote of confidence. And we are …
It is great news to see that the U.S. home prices are rising with good consistency and that means we can continue more of the same as we see here,home prices will rise, underwater mortgages will now by corrected, and home owner equity will continue to rise. What is even more astonishing is that if …
Anyone who has followed the US housing market over the course of 2012, and certainly as far back as 2010 and 2011, knows of the term – shadow inventory. If you are not familiar with this term, it is an inexact number that is calculated most commonly by adding together the number of homes foreclosed to those …
This should be music to your ears – especially if you are a prudent real estate investor. If rents are rising, it conceivably means that another person would be willing to pay more for that property in order to get the same percentage return. Hmmmmm. That means that the price of the homes is increasing. …
I am sure you aren’t surprised by this one. Phoenix is being gobbled up. Florida inventory is dissappearing. But if you have read this blog or come to our seminars, you will know this has been happening for a long time. The so called ‘steals’ are long gone, but there are certainly still good deals …
You never know when you will stumble across that ‘aha’ moment, or that quote or song that just fits a particular moment and provides clarity. What I would like to draw attention to in this post is an article from Zillow that shows some encouraging charts about the United States real estate market as a …
