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Why Some Lowball Real Estate Offers Work — And Others Don’t
In the more than four years of the real estate recession, many wanna-be homeowners have been hunting for houses way above their realistic price range, banking on...
FSBO.com Founder Sells Condo — Using Real Estate Agent
They’re known as “FSBOs” — properties that are For Sale By Owner. Every year, hundreds of thousands of properties are listed, not by real estate agents, but by...
Are Cash Buyers Making Real Estate Less Risky?
One of the biggest risks to the housing market, many economists have been noting, is the virtual certainty that interest rates will rise, and probably sooner...
Why the Real Estate Recession is Halting Divorces
Study after study has looked at the impact of the recession on everything from obesity to fashion. But I’ve had my eye on a number of reports all year which,...
Why Real Estate May Be The Buying Opportunity of the Decade
No one knows what the economy or the stock market will do over the next six months. But when your time horizon is 20 years, the outlook is actually a lot...
The Psychology of Real Estate: Why North Is Better Than South
So you're searching online for a new place to live. You stumble across an affordable house in a nearby city that you've never visited. The house is in a...
Real Estate Steal: Entire Italian Village On Sale for $800,000
The latest in European property listings: Valle Piola, a historic Italian village, is now on the market. (via the Telegraph) For less than $800,000, anyone...
Behind the Latest Gulf Real Estate Crisis
With banks reluctant to lend and a property market remaining pervasively weak, a major real estate developer in the United Arab Emirates said it needed a cash...
Bubble Trouble: Why Real Estate Is China's Biggest Headache
While newspapers in the U.S. are still filled with reports of foreclosures and ongoing declines in home prices, the headlines in China tell a different story...
REITs and Commercial Real Estate's Victims
The commercial real estate market seems headed for trouble, the next potential victim of the speculative frenzy that has already devastated the residential...
Hong Kong: The World's Most Expensive Real Estate?
Home prices in overcrowded Hong Kong have traditionally been high, but when it comes to having the most expensive residential properties in the world, the...
Commercial Real Estate — the Economy's Anvil
Commercial real estate may soon bulldoze the green shoots. A coming wave of defaults on loans to developers of condominiums, office buildings and...
The Looming Crisis in Commercial Real Estate
The bailout may be coming to your local mall. The credit crunch has thus far focused on the residential mortgage mess. But with $1.3 trillion in loans to...
Commercial Real Estate: The Banks' Next Big Problem
In most large American cities there are office buildings which sit half finished in their financial districts. There are still huge cranes next to some of them...
Saving the Real Estate Market by Paying the Neighbor's Mortgage
The quickest way to help the auto industry would be to make sure that no one in the U.S. defaults on a car loan. Certainly the government could make sure that...
What Real Estate Bubble?
Is all the talk about a real estate bubble just a lot of hot air? For all the dire warnings that a pop may well be on its way, 2005 proved to be another record...
Money: Keeping Your Real Estate Expectations Realistic
Real estate investment trusts--stocks that invest in properties like apartments and office buildings--were up more than 30% last year, the second year in a row...
Money: Real Estate Reality
Home prices have been rising faster than personal income for years, fueling concerns about a real estate bubble. After all, a house is worth only what someone...
Real Estate
Now that the Clinton Administration is preparing to build a Star Wars missile shield, some entrepreneurs are sniffing at the scent of new money (beyond the $60...
Real Estate: For Sale: One Town
Even in a Monopoly game, players buy only one avenue at a time. But in Worcestershire County in central England, most of a 7,200-acre town, Redditch, is up...
