Offering high returns and passive income is not the only reason investing in real estate is good for your portfolio, although those are pretty good reasons by themselves. Financial advisors are always telling you to diversify and I’m sure everybody who reads this blog has heard it once before. They tell you to own shares [...]
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As I mentioned in my last post FuGro Investments is launching a new project/investment opportunity, so I thought I would tell everybody what it is all about. Before I do that though I should mention that FuGro is a company that specializes in renovation real estate projects. It started with a house flip and then [...]
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I have decided to move some of my investments around. Currently the vast majority of my savings are in a Real Estate based mutual fund. I’m going to transfer up to half of that money into an upcoming project with the firm I work with. The project has an annual return of 24% (annually) and should take [...]
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Lets face it a lot of scared investors do not want to manage a property or have their name on a mortgage. But there are still investment opportunities that can earn you an interest well about the normal index fund. There are investment companies that give interest rates of generally 15% and up and can [...]
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There are a couple of reasons people don’t invest in real estate, so today I would like to present some ways to help you get around those problems.
People are scared of how large the numbers are. When people look down and see they are signing for a $200,000 mortgage they get nervous, and rightly so. [...]
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Were already on to part 5. For this one I decided not to pick an indicator that people already look at such as property prices or vacancy rates. Instead we need to look at the media sentiment, this is essentially what the media thinks of the real estate market. Because people tend to believe the [...]
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Wow we’re already on Part IV if this research mini series. I hope you found the previous 3 indicators helpful. It is always important to do your research before putting your name on the dotted line and I hope this series will improve the quality of your research.So Part IV is Total Sales, total [...]
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I was fortunate enough to attend a seminar/presentation that a friend of my put on. She is starting her own company and this presentation was sort of a pre-launch, it was very small but there will be a much larger one in march.
I worked the doors for around half an hour so, always lending a [...]
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First off I would like to welcome Cameron to the blog, he has already made his first post so I hope you like it. Him and I have experience and knowledge in different areas so we should be able to expand our range of topics.
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So now that you’ve taken a look at the population growth [...]
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Now that you’ve got a handle on how important population is to the real estate market it is time to move on. And the next important market indicator is….
Employment Rates: If population can have effect it stands to reason that the employment rate will also be a factor. If there is a high unemployment [...]
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