Considering that most Canadian investors have been hoodwinked by the mainstream media for so long into thinking that the housing market was in bad shape, most of them have not even purchased an investment property over the course of the last year. That’s too bad – they missed out on gains of at least 5-20% …
When it comes to housing, it is the economy that drives the housing market. Not the other way around. There is no sustainable way for the housing market to drive the economy because then you just have a lot of construction. and in the end, you can pay any one to build anything regardless if …
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 …
Although we strive to provide you with the best information we can about the US housing market, and most of our in depth research has clearly pointed to a rosier picture than most would think – there are some things that are just very hard to ignore. Especially when they come from real estate stalwarts …
Rather than relying on BPOs and appraisals, the company said market demand from buyers should dictate home values. This quote comes from Woodward Asset Capital who believes that the current method of measuring home prices can be much more precise if the current bids and selling prices were used as opposed to past appraisals. Naturally, they offered …
With construction starts remaining steady, existing home sales hitting their highest level in two years and foreclosures dropping, the housing sector is 42 percent of the way back to normal, up from 34 percent in July, according to Trulia’s monthly housing barometer, released Monday. That is a 3 pronged attack moving the housing market upward. …
This article is a prime example of why tools from certain professions, say those of stock traders, cannot be used to evaluate housing One problem is that it makes understanding the output from these tools entirely difficult to understand. As a person who understands technical trading myself, I border labeling this analysis as silly because …
Regular followers of this blog know that we have not often discussed the Case Shiller Index. Not because it is bad, but because it is inherently slow when it comes to recognizing trends – sometimes it could be as slow as 6 months. Here is an example of the lag time in this report, (and …
Is it party time? Queue the music. As the previously normal stream of bad news about the U.S. real estate market patters out, it is time to welcome with open arms a stream of good news about the market. Here it goes – not only are home prices up for the 5th straight month, and …
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. …