Archive for real estate news
Donald Trump: “We’re almost in a depression… now’s the time to buy real estate”…
Yesterday I was watching Jim Cramer’s “Mad Money“. Cramer is a crazy guy… but he knows his stuff. On the show he interviewed the Donald, who had some revealing words to say about the economy and the real estate market. Here’s the video: ==> Trump Video In short, Trump says that we are in a [...]
January 2008 Real Estate Market Indicators – Market Statistics
A new year… the same ol’ story as the last quarter of 2007 for real estate in the U.S. In my opinion, the Fed will cut rates again (maybe twice more), which should help a bit with the housing sales. However, these cuts won’t make as much as an impact as rate cuts in the [...]
Recent Survey On self-directed IRA’s is great news for real estate wholesalers…
A friend to our site, Brad Wozny, wrote an interesting blog post today citing a recent survey by Guidant Financial Group that shows some excellent news for savvy real estate investors. In short, the survey polled 1,000 self-directed IRA owners on how they hoped they would profit the most… 65% said they were thinking about real estate [...]
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, [...]
Melting mortgage industry – American Home Mortgage shuts down…
As many of you have already hear, one of the well established “Alt-A” lenders in the U.S. recently announced that they are shutting their doors. Wow! This market is getting weirder and weirder every second! It’ll be interesting to see what the heck the mortgage and real estate markets will look like in 12 months [...]
Local real estate markets 2007 – Which markets are still hot?
As you know, there is a ton of doom and gloom out there regarding the national real estate market. Some say the market has hit the bottom and is looking for the right time to jump back up… others say the market is far from the bottom… and yet others say there is absolutely nothing [...]
Analysis of top real estate investing sites by traffic – May 2007
Hi all! I’m curious by nature and just thought that I’d do a little analysis to find out what the real undisputed heavyweight in real estate investing websites is. Of course, there are hundreds of real estate investing education websites out there… but there are a few “communities” that tend to get a bit more [...]
5 housing markets to invest in during the rest of 2007 – and 4 to stay away from
With all of this real estate doom and gloom out there, the sky is falling, no one is making money in real estate talk… there are a lot of people still making a lot in real estate. What’s the difference between those who are making money and those who say there’s no money to be [...]
New study results – What lenders need to do to boost business with minority borrowers
As a native Oregonian, I have definitely seen big changes in the demograhics of people who live here and who ultimately end up buying homes here. I know… I’m not living in S. California where the demographic changes have been much more prevalent… but Oregon has seen its share of demographic changes in recent years. [...]
“Don’t Fall for Schemers’ Lines” – Advice to a real estate investor
Us as real estate investors really need to get back to the basics and see real estate investing for what it is… and more importantly… WHAT IT IS NOT. I was recently reading the RealEstateJournal and found a great article written by David Crook. This article isn’t the same ol’ “doom and gloom”… the real [...]
