Real Estate News – Review of this weeks hottest Real Estate News
This is a new thing we will be doing around here at The REI Brain. As our new main
website redesign is underway behind closed doors… we are adding new elements to our site and our blog to keep you up to date on the most cutting edge real estate investing techniques, news, strategies, tools, tutorials, etc.
This is our first “Review of this weeks hottest real estate news” column… which will become a weekly column every Friday.
Enjoy…
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NOW FOR THE NEWS:
Bustling Commercial Real Estate Slows -
The excesses that led to a bust in the housing boom haven’t spread to the commercial real estate market, where the outlook is cautious but decidedly upbeat. read more… <<
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Real Estate Investors and Agents Decry Short-Sale Process – Complaints about the short sale process came in from homeowners who had offers to purchase their distressed properties, from investors, or from real estate agents who were hoping to put together short sale deals. Most of the letters mentioned specific lenders/servicers as responsible for their problems; however, given our longstanding aversion to litigation we have purged all names. Suffice it to say that most of the usual suspects were targeted.
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Buffett bets on prefab homes – Few would call Warren Buffett unwise with his money. It takes some smarts to build a fortune of $46 billion, after all.
So what’s he doing raising money in the housing sector? Specifically, why is he helping put three-quarters of a billion dollars into manufactured homes, those humble, modestly priced abodes that come shipped in prefabricated components, ready for assembly?
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Why we need a recession — soon – America has a new mania this fall: recession-obsession disorder. If you just arrived from a visit to the International Space Station, you’d be excused for thinking that the U.S. economy is about to plunge off a cliff, with widespread unemployment, massive piles of unsold inventory, corporate profit growth in full-speed reverse and hundreds of bank closures.
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Renovating To Rent: Keep Costs Low – For any business decision its easy to understand that to make the most money you need to spend the least amount of money (keep expenses low) while bringing in the most amount of money (keep revenue high) as possible. Amazing how smart I am right? But when it comes to Manhattan real estate and renting out your apartment for the most money, keeping costs low becomes ultra important. And that means spending the LEAST amount of money possible to get your apartment into renting shape that will bring in the most revenue possible. Here’s a guide.
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There you have it. If you have real estate investing related news that you feel is worthy of the “hottest real estate news of the week” title… please post a link in our comments section or shoot me an email via our contact form.
Enjoy your weekend!
Hey, my name is Trevor and I'm the founder of The REI Brain and a real estate investor since the age of 21. Right now, my focus in real estate investing is multi-family income properties and I have plans on moving more into the commercial real estate investment world in 2008 and beyond. 
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