The biggest financial fear about so-called “1031 TIC” real estate investment deals appears to be turning into reality: One of the largest “tenants in common” or “TIC” firms — with 8,300 individual investors and office and retail properties valued at $2.4 billion — has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
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Investor Report: 1031 TIC Bankruptcy
For investors looking to pick up and rehab houses for quick resales, the rules in today’s tough market are very different from a few years back.
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Investor Report: Avoid Over-Improving
The nationwide boom in foreclosures and bank-owned real estate (REO) property sales to investors is producing an unpleasant and sometimes dangerous side effect: Growing numbers of confrontations occur when investors visiting supposedly empty properties find them occupied — and the inhabitants don’t want to leave or let anybody in.
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Investor Report: REO Scam Warning
The economy may be flat, but it’s boom time for investors who know how to buy houses at fire-sale prices, fix them up and sell or rent them out.
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Investor Report: Home Investors Booming
Some investors may believe the headlines and assume that nobody’s lending money anymore — and certainly not for small residential rental projects.
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Investor Report: Who is Lending?
Once a year, the Urban Land Institute asks more than 600 of the country’s largest real estate investors, developers one key question: Where are the best opportunities in real estate for the year ahead?
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Investor Report: Best Opportunities Ahead
A lot of people assume that the federal bailout law is all about helping banks and buying toxic mortgage portfolios. That’s true, but Congress included some important tax items in the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act that could be of immediate use by owners and developers of investment real estate.
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Investor Report: Bailout to Aid Investors
If you’re planning to buy investment property and financing it through a lender who sells to Fannie Mae, keep the date December First in mind. Nail down your mortgage commitments quickly — in the next six weeks if you can.
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Investor Report: Investing by December 1st
McLEAN, VA — Freddie Mac (NYSE:FRE) today released the results of its Primary Mortgage Market Survey (PMMS) in which the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) averaged 5.94 percent with an average 0.6 point for the week ending October 9, 2008, down from last week when it averaged 6.10 percent. Last year at this time, the 30-year FRM averaged 6.40 percent.
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One Year ARM Ticks Up As All Other Rates Fall
Too often, I see Agents turn uncertain when it comes to getting a client to sign an agreement. It is that moment of indecision that causes Agents to lose sales and listings. Here are a few thoughts that can take you over the threshold to more listings and sales.
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Closing A Client
For the second time in two months, federal authorities have warned real estate investors about the lack of regulatory oversight of so-called qualified intermediaries in tax-deferred Section 1031 exchanges.
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Investor Report: Lack of Regulatory Oversight
Small-scale rental home investors need to be aware of a new campaign by the nation’s largest apartment owners that could have the effect of scaring away potential tenants.
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Investor Report: Small-scale Investors Beware
The real estate conditions are right in California — falling prices, pent up demand, low interest rates — to bring about a perfect storm of real estate sales, creating a hot market statewide. While some prognosticators tout the woes of price drops of up to 50 percent, buyers are seeing the devaluation as a signal to get off the fence. And they are doing just that with a vengeance.
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Hot Market: California Leads the Way in Hot Markets
Here’s a concept that real estate investors might want to check out: Cash for part of the future equity in their properties … with no interest charges.
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Investor Report: Cash for Future Equity
Should the Federal Trade Commission develop national licensing requirements and standards regulating the middlemen who conduct thousands of tax-deferred real estate exchanges every year?
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Investor Report: Intermediaries and Tax-deferred Exchanges
