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Author :: Raynor  |
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| Article Title :: Real Estate Terms – From Pre-Approval Letter to Townhouse |
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| When buying or selling a property, it always helps to have a basic understanding of real estate terms. In this on going series of articles, we take a look at definitions starting with “Pre-Approval Letter.”
1) Pre-Approval Lender Letter – a writing from a lender stating that a potential buyer has approval to borrow a stated amount of money from his firm based on having documented all the personal information needed. Final approval is subject only to the lender’s receiving a copy of a contract to purchase real estate, a satisfactory appraisal of that real estate, and its underwriting department’s review of all pertinent information. In other words, the buyer q (read full article) |
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| Category :: Real Estate Articles |
Author :: Steve Gillman |
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| Article Title :: Real Estate Market Research |
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| Start your real estate market research with the U.S. Census information about a town. You want to invest in a town that is growing, especially if you are investing in income properties. It's getting easier to do this now, with all the information available online. Just go to the official U.S. Census site at www.census.gov.
If you call the chamber of commerce, or the local department of economic development, they may have a packet of statisics they can send you too, showing population figures, employment mix, and more. These are a couple of the statistical tools and information that can help, but one of the easiest and most useful research tools, is talking.
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| Category :: Real Estate Articles |
Author :: Steve Gillman |
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| Article Title :: Real Estate Value |
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| What is real estate value? It isn't what you have into your house. It isn't what you feel it is worth. It is what the market will pay. How do you figure out what the market will pay? For single family homes, the best way is by seeing what similar homes have sold for.
Figuring replacement cost isn't very useful. It's difficult to say what land is worth in a city center where none is left for sale, for example, and tough to gauge depreciation of the home itself. Valuation from replacement cost is used as a secondary method, and for unique homes that can't be compared easily with others. However, the primary method of real estate appraisal used for homes is a market analysis using (read full article) |
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| Category :: Real Estate Articles |
Author :: Steve Gillman |
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| Article Title :: Real Estate Valuation |
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| Real estate valuation for single family homes is typically done by using comparable sales. With income properties this just doesn't work well. Imagine if you are looking at a 24-unit building. It would be difficult to find similar ones nearby that have recently sold.
It's also not ideal to use replacement costs for income property appraisal. How do you figure replacement cost if there is no land for sale nearby with proper zoning? This is used as a secondary method, though, and can tell you if maybe you should be building instead of buying.
Real Estate Valuation By Cap Rate
Income properties are bought for the income. Income, then, is what is use (read full article) |
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| Category :: Real Estate Articles |
Author :: Kevin Barnett |
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| Article Title :: Google Hat-trick for Spanish Property Website |
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| For the third successive year, specialist website PropertyInSpain.Net enjoyed the Christmas number one ranking with leading search engine Google.
In the 36 months at number one for key search phrases, pre-qualified visitor traffic from Google search results to the triple award winning website has doubled from 20% to 40%. In addition, Google lists 100s of important pages of advice, information and property showcases from PropertyInSpain.Net that attract 1,000s of serious property buyers and investors.
A traffic spike of 114,000 hits resulted in 4,000 people in one day viewing the EUR 1M Mallorca home of the Christopher Columbus family, sold by PropertyInSpain.Net to (read full article) |
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| Category :: Real Estate Articles |
Author :: jen |
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| Article Title :: Increasing Cash Flow |
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| If you have an income producing property, the amount of money you are left with at the end of your property expenses is considered cash flow.
Here is how it works . . .
Lets suppose you own a duplex and your monthly mortgage payment including taxes and insurance is approximately $1200.00.
Now lets suppose you have a tenant on each floor with a one year lease, and you charge each tenant $850.00 a month to live there. This is a total of $1700.00 paid to you on a monthly basis.
Once you have paid your mortgage of $1200.00, you are left with a balance of $500.00, this would be your monthly cash flow from the income producing property.
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| Category :: Real Estate Articles |
Author :: Richard A. Chapo |
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| Article Title :: Investment Property - Leveraging Rental Property Equity |
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| Owning investment property is a tremendous wealth building strategy. Thousands upon thousands of individuals have amassed great wealth by investing in rental properties.
Unfortunately, few investment property owners learn how to leverage equity in a way that maximizes tax deductions while creating and locking in equity gains. Instead, they leave themselves open to price fluctuations in the residential property market. These fluctuations can wipe out or severely reduce equity positions in property.
Housing Boom To End?
There is little doubt we are coming to the end of a huge boom market in residential properties. For the last four years, properties have (read full article) |
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| Category :: Real Estate Articles |
Author :: Amit |
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| Article Title :: Buying A House With Resale Value in Mind |
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| ItÂ’s one of our biggest investments and some of us are doing it more than once during our life.
Like many things in our life that have changed dramatically, so did our habitation practices. Most of us donÂ’t stay in one house for the full duration of our lives as it used to be for many people in previous generations.
Our modern dynamic life style and economy, calls for flexibility, mobility and frequent changes, People are following their jobs and careers even if it means moving from one side of the nation to the other.
This tendency is in line with our culture of consuming society. We replace everything faster, we treat cloths, cars (some just l (read full article) |
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| Category :: Real Estate Articles |
Author :: Raynor |
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| Article Title :: Curb Appeal – First Impressions Count When Selling Your Home |
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| People selling their homes via real estate brokers get lots of coaching. People selling their own homes as FSBOs need the same. One of the most important topics on which FSBOs can benefit from coaching is “curb appeal.” How does your home look when a potential buyer drives up to the curb and takes that all important first look?
Be Sure It Looks Great
Single family residences require the most work. The FSBO seller of a single family home also has the most control of what is seen from the curb, so letÂ’s start there. Make sure grass is cut, leaves are raked, sidewalks swept and edged, and planting beds are freshly mulched. ThatÂ’s just the beginning. (read full article) |
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| Category :: Real Estate Articles |
Author :: Hans Hasselfors |
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| Article Title :: 4 Steps To Real Estate Investing Success! |
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| Real estate investing is always good and sometimes it's red hot. When it's hot dozens of real estate seminars begin rolling across the country and thousands of people spend thousands of dollars for investing education.
It's startling to learn that of all those thousands of eager folks who attend these seminars only about 5% buy even one investment house. Why? The real estate gurus sell the "sizzle" and make profiting from real estate sound easy. The truth is that it's simple, but not easy.
Here's a quick plan that will enable anyone to begin building financial independence.
There are basically four steps to investing in single family homes:
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