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LaVina P. Pratt
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May 2008
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Real Estate as a market is constantly evolving!
You owe it to yourself to keep up on what's happening!
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| Taking The Real Estate Investment Plunge
Just like buying a home to live in, taking the real estate investment plunge requires taking stock of your financial goals, planning and lifestyle before taking the plunge. Pretty much like buying any property.
If you've got the time, the money and the lifestyle that lends itself to managing a real estate investment, you are just about half way there. However, both halves are pretty big halves.
The National Real Estate Investors Association says you've still got a lot of work to do.
Here's what.
Buy your own home first. Buying a home will not only put a roof over your head, but also teach you the true cost of property ownership beyond the monthly mortgage payment; give you a primer on financing; school you on how location and changing market conditions affect property values; give you the angle on tax and other home-owning benefits; help you learn about property maintenance; introduce you to a host of professionals who could prove invaluable when you really get into investments; and otherwise get you grounded for higher studies in more>
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Buying Bonds And The Mortgage Market
Amid the recent scary financial headlines, there are some less-publicized developments in Washington that bode well for the home real estate market in the months ahead.
Federal regulators last month gave the go-ahead for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to buy an extra $200 billion in mortgage securities -- a move that pushed down interest rates for home buyers and refinancers almost immediately.
At the same time, the 12 Federal Home Loan Banks prepared a plan that could allow them to buy an additional $160 billion in mortgage bonds.
Now you might ask: How does buying bonds help the mortgage market … or trickle down to help real estate sales?
Here's how: The biggest challenge in the capital markets right now is what economists call "illiquidity," which means that large U.S. investors aren't able to sell their mortgage bond holdings because global investors have lost confidence in their safety.
Now in reality, most of the mortgages in these illiquid loan pools are paying on more>
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Real-time Housing Composite Shows Possible Bottom Near
The Altos 10-City Composite Index was down 1.7 percent for the first quarter of 2008, with most of the decline occurring in March (1.3 percent.)
The index tracks homes for sale in 23 metros through real-time listing prices. The 10-city composite uses the same metro data as the S & P Case-Shiller Index for Denver, Boston, Miami, San Diego, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Washington, DC, Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. Other cities such as Dallas are calculated separately and will be included in a future 20-city index, once again mirroring the Case-Shiller metros, says Altos. The 20-city index is expanded to include more>
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LaVina P. Pratt
1-208-939-3339
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Eagle Hills Properties, LLC
771 Eagle Hills Way
Eagle, ID 83616
phone: 1-208-939-3339
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