For months now many Realtors have been pacing the floor wondering where their next sale was coming from. The bad news drips off the front pages reporting for all to see how bad the real estate market has become. Thickets of real estate signs explode out of the ground much […]
Investment
Let the Lawsuits Begin – Banks Brace For a Storm of Litigation
In an article in The San Francisco Chronicle in December 2007, attorney Sean Olender suggested that the real reason for the subprime bailout schemes being proposed by the U.S. Treasury Department was not to keep strapped borrowers in their homes so much as to stave off a spate of lawsuits […]
NAREIT PureProperty Index For Tracking Commercial Real Estate Values
Every trading, investors on the New York Stock Exchange evaluate the market value of many real estate investment trusts (REITs) holding commercial properties. The stock market values of those REITs come from their ownership of commercial real estate properties: shopping mails, retail strip centers, industrial centers and others. Most of […]
Best Way to Invest $10,000 – A Few Online Investment Opportunities to Consider
Ten thousand dollars is a good place to start if you are interested in any type of investing. The safest, risk-free option obviously would be to stick it in a savings account with as high an interest rate you can get. However, that’s not enough for many people. There are […]