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05.25.08

The vacations rentals in Kauai Leisure and Property, Real Estate Trends | (0)
During your vacation the most important decision that a person seeks is to find the most suitable property to live in and enjoy the experience. Finding the place of your choice should not be a very difficult job to execute with the kind of option available. The most well known place in Kauai is the Anini beach located on the north tip sphere of the island. Apart from the beautiful coral reef the area is also popular for its windsurfing. Some of the Kauai vacation homes are nothing short of dreams shaped into reality. The stay at Kauai oceanfront cottages are ...
05.23.08

The concept of mobile homes Real Estate Trends, Real Estate in US | (1)
Mobile homes refer to the concept of homes that can be moved from one place to another. In the initial days, such homes were also referred to as trailer homes. These homes have now come a long way with respect to their designs and flexibility. Modern homes are much more intricate and beautiful in designs and some of them look no different from the traditional brick and mortar home to a new eye. They are also referred to as manufactured homes in the daily parlance. There are basically two types on manufacture homes – the singlewide and the doublewide. The singlewide homes, ...
05.07.08

4 reasons for owning your house Purchase Dilligence, Real Estate Trends, Real Estate in UK, Real Estate in US | (1)
If you are first time buyer, you must be wondering if investing in property is a good decision. Well having reservations about this is normal and there is nothing to worry about. I will list down 8 reasons why a purchase of a property is worth a decision to be taken. The pride of ownership For home buyers there is nothing more elating than to have the feeling of being the owner of that dream property. It means that you are the owner of that space and you can do whatever you wish to do within the premises (of course it should ...
03.16.08

Weighing the real estate value in a downhill market Purchase Dilligence, Real Estate Trends, Real Estate in US | (5)
In a tattered real estate and housing market like the current one, choosing your neighborhood is more significant than ever. Around five million Americans would be scouting for a house this year. They could the first time buyers scouting the Chicago or the California markets or a worker in the middle of his career relocation to Denver. The significant part is that they all would be contemplating the one of the most important decision of their life in times when no one is certain how low the prices would go before taking a halt. If you would be relocating in a job, ...
03.09.08

Location…Location… Location… The Most important thing in Real estate Property Valuation, Real Estate Trends, Real Estate in UK, Real Estate in US | (3)
If there’s one thing that will decide the ROI on your property, it’s the location of your real estate purchase. Everything else is secondary and should be seen as value addition to your real estate investment. The real estate prices in London are stable and moving up. But the valuations for properties in outlying areas lag behind than their counterparts in the central zone. The real estate properties lying near the areas services by the underground subway are seeing their valuations going up but the same cannot be said about areas not serviced by the underground subway. The same phenomenon is holding ...
03.02.08

Summit county Colorado real estate Real Estate Trends, Real Estate in US | (7)
The real estate market is going through volatile and turbulent times. The Colorado real estate market is no exception to the trend. For the year closing Dec 2007, a 40% jump has been reported in the foreclosures. That’s around 40,000 in absolute terms. To the director of Colorado Division of Housing, this was a setback since the expectations were hovering around 30%. If you the take the base year as 2003, that’s a straight 190% increase in foreclosures. On the other hand the foreclosure sales stand at around 25000 (in absolute figures). So, that’s a 45% YoY increase. With so ...
02.18.08

Who are the best real estate mortgage payers? Real Estate Trends, Real Estate in US | (1)
All areas of the country are not created equal when it comes to the real estate mortgage recession. Foreclosures are at their worst in the so-called ‘rust belt’ states where the factory layoffs and closures have caused significant unemployment. Mortgage defaults were at their worst in Ohio, with a huge 3.3% rate of default, slightly behind them, Indiana, with 2.8%. At the other end scale California has fared the best with just 0.17% and Hawaii at 0.23%, not too distant second. It is not so much that the real estate market is better in these states. It is has more to ...
02.13.08

Florida will be slow to recover from mortgage and real estate problems Real Estate Trends, Real Estate in US | (4)
The National Association of Home Builders has said in an announcement in Orlando Florida, that it feels that real estate troubles brought on by the sub-prime mortgage mess are not over yet, and that what they referred to euphemistically as ‘housing contraction’ will continue, and that Florida will find it particularly hard to recover from the slump. Florida experienced fast and exciting growth in real estate sales and mortgage provision over the last few years, and with this growth, came a glut of sub-prime mortgages, which have now turned to bite Florida real estate posterior, this in turn will lead to ...
02.05.08

London super-prime real estate mortgages Property Valuation, Real Estate Trends, Real Estate in UK | (0)
In London, there is a large category of real estate in the £2m/$4m to £5m/$10m, with the average price in the Kensington district of London now in excess of £1m/$2m, these super-prime pieces of real estate also carry super-prime mortgages. And this is producing a lot of nervous mortgage companies who supply the funds for these high-end real estate purchases, at this level of pricing the slightest shift in interest rates on a £2m/$4m mortgage will result in huge leaps in monthly mortgage payments. With chaos in the world mortgage business caused by the opposite end of the market, sub-prime, real estate ...
01.26.08

The current state of real estate in US Real Estate Trends, Real Estate in US | (1)
In spite of the reported problem the current state of real estate in US is not as bad as it seems. Due to the massive defaults on home loans that were made to certain types of borrowers the market took a plunge. Real estate prices in the country are now expected to recover slowly over the next year. The current market situation sees a surplus of housing stock and low buyer confidence and they wait for the market to bottom out. This however is poised to change as the economy gets a boost from the government. The property prices however ...

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