by Andy Fixmer

REAL estate speculation sounds easy enough–just locate an undervalued home, make some minor renovations and flip the property, with returns approaching 200 percent.
But like any pursuit, it can be fraught with complications, especially with the local housing market cooling off and attractive properties harder to find. (Read Full Article)

source: Los Angeles Business Journal, July 25, 2005.
via: HighBeam™ Research
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by Kenneth R. Harney

The federal government’s biggest home mortgage program streamlined itself at the end of December, and that could be good news for buyers, sellers, real estate agents and builders.

The Federal Housing Administration’s decision to eliminate or soften many of its onerous rules about property conditions and mandatory repairs should be a stimulant to the entire housing market this year. It could help open low-down-payment mortgages with no prepayment penalties to thousands of first-time, moderate-income purchasers who might otherwise have turned to higher-fee, subprime alternatives. (Read Full Article)

source: The Washington Post, January 14, 2006.
via: HighBeam™ Research

By Jamie Smith Hopkins
Oct. 7–Everyone’s talking about real estate slowdowns, but you’d never know it on McCulloh Street yesterday. In a neighborhood of broken windows and boarded-up properties, 80 people crowded around a dark shell of a rowhouse, eager for rehabbing tips so they can start investing — or investing more — in Baltimore. ( Read Full Article)

source: The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, Maryland)
(via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News), October 7, 2005.
via: HighBeam™ Research
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Sarasota Magazine; 1/1/2006
The Mark P. Riley Luxury Real Estate Group, Inc. specializes not only in real estate transactions but also in real estate business planning, investing and fee-based consulting. ( Read Full Article)

source: Sarasota Magazine, January 1, 2006.
via: HighBeam™ Research
COPYRIGHT 2006 Clubhouse Publishing, Inc.

Sarasota Magazine; 1/1/2006
The Mark P. Riley Luxury Real Estate Group, Inc. specializes not only in real estate transactions but also in real estate business planning, investing and fee-based consulting. ( Read Full Article)

source: Sarasota Magazine, January 1, 2006.
via: HighBeam™ Research
COPYRIGHT 2006 Clubhouse Publishing, Inc.