Real estate

There are five major corporate real estate firms in the immediate DC industry; JLL, Cushman & Wakefield, Newmark, Savills Studley and Cresa (“At a Glance”). There are not many large firms because companies need substantial resources to be a player in the market. Additionally, clients chose…

five reasons why an investor should not buy real estate with a self-directed IRA Total Word Count In This Document: 956 Title: ?5 Reasons an Investor Should Not Buy Real Estate With a Self-Directed IRA? What is a self-directed IRA? A self-directed investment retirement account (or IRA) is an individual retirement account that allows alternate investments for the owner?s retirement savings. These alternate investments can be anything from real estate to private mortgages, from private company…

The end of 2013 denotes an interesting interval because the downfall of manufacturing in the US is over. Real estate-based Sunbelt economies have already broken. And the cities that boomed because of the upsurge of education, technology, and finance have gotten so expensive and land-constrained that they’ve become almost zero-sum entities, where every new resident must displace an existing one. We now to have an idea of what kind of post-2008 economic growth is healthy and sustainable, and what…

Goal: to write a blog post about legal problems that can occur when selling a home in Florida Total Word Count In This Document: 1039 Title: ?Trouble In Paradise: Six Legal Problems That Can Happen When Selling Your Florida Home? If you plan on selling your home in Florida, then you are about to undergo a long and complicated process that can either go very smoothly or very roughly. The best thing you can do when it comes to selling your Florida home is to be informed and prepared for any…

conservative esti- mate that is very simplistic but can help in deciding if a property warrants a deeper look. In most parts of the country, the 2% is very difficult to achieve, but the closer you can get to that, the better cash flow you'll receive. Real World Example: An average three bedroom home rents for $800 per month in your neighborhood. According to the 2% rule - you should be looking to spend around $40,000 for that property ($800 / .02 = $40,000) The 50% rule is a great…

investments went before the retreat and were followed by diminishments in family and household spending and afterwards business investments. A housing bubble is an economic bubble that occurs in local or global real estate markets. It is defined by rapid increases in the valuations of real property until unsustainable levels are reached in relation to incomes and other indicators of affordability. This became one of the main reasons that triggered the crisis for the US economy which then…

Lodha’s thesis invites the reader to explore the vastness in the concept of city life. They allude to different factors that draw people towards and away from cities. Chapter four is divided into five sections: cities, Bay Area, greater Los Angeles, real estate, and highways and transportation. In the first section, the authors express how cities are engines of economic growth that are densely populated. The main advantage a city provides is accessibility to airports, work, government, and etc.…

The researcher learns that the main reason that many join the gang is not because there aren't other opportunities available but the feel as if it's the only occupation in which they have a chance for real advancement. The young men who deal crack know the risks, in the first four years that they are selling, there is ¼ chance that they will be killed. The most disturbing part is that selling crack provides less than minimum wage unless you are an “executive”…

A standard contract is between two or more people written on paper, through verbal exchange, or agreed electronically. A standard real estate contract consists of many components beyond the standard contract. The general ones are below. Offer and acceptance Real estate contracts require one person or party to create a contract. An example of an offer is a seller's home for sale or rent. The recipient reads and accept/decline the terms. Then, the other party, as confirmation of the term…

Plinius Secundus (best known as Pliny the Elder), a Roman author, philosopher, and naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire once said, “Home is where the heart is.” This statement still speaks true to most people today. Anyone who is in the real estate or homebuilding business knows that people do not buy houses; they buy homes. That is why new homebuilders spend thousands and hundreds of thousands of dollars upgrading and decorating their model homes. One such homebuilder, perhaps,…