Conflicting Housing Market Data?

Real Estate markets are inefficient and involve non-homogenous assets being negotiated and purchased by private parties ... and insight on your local market. Integrated Asset Services provides full service asset management ... the National Association of Realtors’ Housing Affordability Index. They take into account access [more...]

Date: 2008-11-13 16:24:41

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Reduction in property prices and home loan rates could boost Indian Real estate Market

DLF, India’s biggest real estate developer, said a recovery in the property market in the next six months hinges on lower home loan rates to lure ... Fund as managing director at Aberdeen Asset Management Asia in Singapore and holds DLF shares. “ [more...]

Date: 2008-11-24 06:31:00

Baltimore Maryland Real Estate Sub-Market

Baltimore Maryland Real Estate Sub-Market Posted by Aaron Rice under For Buyers, For Realty Professionals, For Sellers, ... Tracking*  Updated 1/10/09 12:00PM  Source: •Available Listings Below $100,000 Baltimore City ...   As Certified Distressed Property Experts we deal with banks, loan servicer’s and asset managers who contact [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 07:13:24

Argentine Stocks Threatened by State Seizure of Biggest Holders

By James Attwood - BloombergNov. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Argentina’s stock market is fading as the state seizure of the nation’s biggest shareholders ... , the 62-year-old chairman of Buenos Aires- based real-estate and asset management group Consultatio, the sole [more...]

Date: 2008-11-21 11:07:00

San Francisco Real Estate Market Update for week of November 16, 2008

Read what Rick Turley, President of Coldwell Banker, San Francisco/Peninsula says in his latest weekly report: ... and stabilize prices.  In addition, the plan urges that the Troubled Asset Relief Program be put back on track ... estate brokerage and property management. “The only way to overcome today’s economic turmoil [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 16:21:20

Keller Williams Realty Carmel brokerage welcomes Zach Merritt as new interim Team Leader

Experienced Realtor from Denver takes the helm at Keller Williams Realty Carmel Keller Williams Realty Carmel is pleased to announce, ... solely on real estate sales and property management in Aspen and the surrounding area while working ... this time, Zach developed a strong referral client base and focused on asset disposition and servicing [more...]

Date: 2008-10-22 15:15:00

The Real Reason Citigroup Is a Mess

Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit is blaming his company’s considerable troubles on moves by previous management to dive into real estate ... : Pandit said in the interview that short-sellers, as well as investors worried about Citigroup’s asset [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 15:00:31

Government Aid Programs Proposed to Stabilize the Real Estate Market

Many members of Congress, not to mention those of us living on Main Street, are disappointed in the management-to-date of the funds earmarked for the Troubled Asset Relief ... of these funds to continue stabilization efforts for the struggling mortgage and real estate market [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 15:17:10

How to Buy and Sell Real Estate with ETFs

Ron Rowland is president of Capital Cities Asset Management, and an expert on mutual funds, ETFs, and sector rotation strategies. As the co-editor of Weiss Research's International ETF Trader service [more...]

Date: 2008-12-05 20:03:53

Ok, Now Buy the Homebuilders?

Every few months, a gaggle of investors collectively ask, once again, if now is the time to buy the homebuilding stocks ... is that maybe — once again — real estate has hit bottom. “The only problem with that theory ... in existing home sales,” says Robert Pavlik, chief investment officer at Oaktree Asset Management. “I’ [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 10:32:00

Real Estate Market Case Shiller ETFs almost here

Getting closer to reality: Yesterday Bob Shiller's firm MacroMarkets announced that they've cleared the final approval for their exchange-traded ... Housing will provide investors with much needed access to the housing asset class, allowing ... , transparent, market based risk management solutions. Ongoing private sector innovation remains a vital [more...]

Date: 2008-10-02 16:00:55

How To Evaluate REO Bank Lists

Many real estate agents want to start listing foreclosures for banks but they are unaware of all of the steps required to begin ... . For example, unless you have a personal contact at a bank, it’s virtually impossible to just call an asset management company and start to list REOs for banks. Before you begin to ... [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 17:45:07

News Roundup: Nilgiris to Unlock Real Estate Holdings for Rs 100 Cr

KPCL and BHEL to Form JV to Operate Thermal Power Plants - Karnataka Power Corporation Limited (KPCL) and Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) ... is one of the highest oil-producing regions in the world. ONGC is looking at making Imperial's asset a platform ... of the Emergency Management and Research Institute (EMRI), a non-profit organisation [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 04:09:47

$1.28m in grants to bolster foreclosure counselors

$1.28m in grants to bolster foreclosure counselors December 6th, 2008 THE REGION Massachusetts has received $1 ... , according to the real estate tracker Warren Group. (Jenifer B. McKim) Tweeter owner mails pay to 600 laid-off employees Schultze Asset Management, the owner of bankrupt Tweeter, said it mailed [more...]

Date: 2008-12-06 06:55:37

Revisiting regional banks

As you know from reading my blog, I am expecting a lot of writedowns from regional banks as real estate loans sour ... from: NewsInc Living with SFAS 121: how to avoid (or record) an asset writedown. (Statement of Financial ... Accountant Commercial Property Insurance and Risk Management Managing and Leasing Commercial Properties [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 20:33:32

REO Property Management/Preservations and ASSSET SALES, Licensed REALTOR

Licensed REALTOR in Maryland. Successful Countrywide Home Loans REO Agent with 100% Scorecard (request copy). Complete REO Asset Management, Restoration and Sales Services: www.RealEstate1StopShop.com Seanna S. Smallwood, REALTOR OVER $70 MILLION SOLD in 8 Years! 19 Years Real Estate Experience Realty [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 21:02:02

Citigroup received massive $300 billion last night from government

That was an amazingly fast fall from grace. Last night there were plenty of rumors about options being weighed, none of them very positive ... and securities backed by residential and commercial real estate and other such assets -- with conditions attached ... . Can you imagine how much more this would have cost if that sale went through? Here's another man [more...]

Date: 2008-11-24 08:31:01

What’s next for Lee?

Although its stock has been pummeled to pennies per share and its auditors have stated the company is in danger of defaulting on $1.4 billion in debt, Lee Enterprises still produces a larger operating profit, percentage-wise, than Exxon.So, let’s not forget that there is a reasonably robust business here. The problems are that (a) [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 04:15:00

Could the Satyam/PwC fraud be the visible part of an iceberg? Where are India’s “Generally Accepted Accounting Principles”? Isn’t governance rather poor all over corporate India? Bad public finance may be a root cause

  In a March 5 2007 article in The Statesman, I said: “Our farmers are peaceful hardworking people who should be paying taxes and user-fees normally but should not be otherwise disturbed or needlessly provoked by outsiders. It is the businessmen wishing to attack our farm populations who need to look hard in the mirror – to improve their [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 07:40:36

Make your MF portfolio a long term plan

Over the last few days, there has been a growing consensus on the fact that asset classes are set for a free fall ... at a combination of products to minimise risk. While the percentage of allocation for each scheme ... can be considered by a larger segment as portfolio components.Here are some of those options: Debt allocation [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 15:51:00

Sweetheart Deals

I’m prepared to be convinced that some form of assistance for Citigroup was necessary, ... from its portfolio of risky assets – from residential mortgages to commercial real estate and leveraged loans ... government’s troubled asset relief programme (Tarp) and receive dividends at a rate of 8 per cent annually [more...]

Date: 2008-11-24 13:42:35

Review of 2008 Economic Predictions

Here we go… My overall assessment is that: a) All major directions were right in this prediction b) Where I was wrong, I was either too early and (amazingly) too optimistic. It has hard to realize how long ago in financial terms Jan 2008 was. As you read these predictions, they look almost mild, yet in January 2008, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 13:48:45

Reader Mailbag #40

Each Monday, The Simple Dollar opens up the reader mailbags and answers ten to twenty simple questions offered up by the readers on personal finance ... for books on time management. Here are links to my reviews of the four best ones I’ve read to date ... d just make the minimum payment and instead apply all of that extra to a savings account. That accoun [more...]

Date: 2008-12-08 14:00:55

THE FINTAG NEWSLETTER @ 14 January 2009

FINTAG COMMENT Junk. Interest rates are nearly zero; equities, real estate, ... asset with a high probability that you will lose your capital is an ideal strategy if there is a good ... of distressed debt funds is being driven by asset allocators who have lost a lot and want to make a quick buck [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 11:53:57

The Year in 2008 PE-Backed Bankruptcies

Jennifer Rossa, of Private Equity Analyst, files this look back at some of the more notable bankruptcies of buyout-backed companies and some of the ... : Apollo Management LP When Apollo Management agreed to buy Linens ‘N Things Inc. for $1.3 billion ... bask in a tidy profit of at least $250 million. Mervyn’s management has sued its erstwhile backers [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 15:13:15

Hedge Fund Due Diligence

There are some people worthy of blind trust with your money. They are the ones who: 1) seem to make money over time; 2) ... of great promotion over the past ten years that the hedge fund industry is an asset class - like stocks, bonds or real estate - hedge funds (yours and mine) are still only private investment pools [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 16:30:25

Battle of the Titans

For those of you that prepare yourselves, the OPPORTUNITIES will be abundant and limitless; for those that don't it could be a very difficult period ... asset deflation (Mother Nature) versus the Inflate or Die mandate of the G7 governments who have tried to print wealth through monetary and asset inflation for decades. The first law the G7 is trying [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 00:00:37

Funky Rebalancing

Funky Rebalancing In today's (web-only) edition of Madison's Capital Times, ... . We may be missing something, but this is either a poor explanation of the shift in asset allocation ... %. (For comparative purposes, though it isn't exactly the right benchmark because it reflects just one asset class [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 22:57:59

Break Out the Crystal Ball

The Orange County Register has recently posted a series of predictions about the future of the real estate market in Orange County - Eyeball 2009 ... Partners, a commercial real estate management firm - Robert Bruswick Former UCLA economist, now co ... cooler at work and explain purchasing real estate in this economy?  Tough, but if it works [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 07:13:29

As The Politicians Battle It Out Ukraine’s Economy Tunnels South In Search Of Australia

“In Ukraine, the evidence is still that policymakers do not quite understand the seriousness of the challenges they face,”. Timothy Ash, analyst at the Royal Bank of Scotland. “There is a burgeoning economic crisis in the European periphery,” Krugman said on the ABC network Dec. 14. “The money has dried up [more...]

Date: 2008-12-25 16:06:18

New Year Scams 3

My Greeting To Me, I am Mr. Peter Phillip a Bank Manager here in Uk. I write you this proposal in good faith, believing that you will not betray me. I believe it is the will of God for us to meet through this means. One Mr. Pedro Brito Rodriguez a US citizen and businessman made a (Fixed deposit) [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 08:13:15

Thinking About Ollie, Wolf, Roger, Empty Seats In The Bronx and the New Name For Mets Stadium

Derek Lowe got his money and his fourth year. I guess it's hard to give a 35 year old a fourth year, thing stend not to work out (cough, Pedro) ... ," said William Smith at Smith Asset Management, who owns Citigroup shares. He has been calling ... . .. Morgan Stanley Stadium in 2010? Is there a single person out there who thinks the present Name [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 02:59:44

SO AGAIN — HOW DID IT HAPPEN?

Dr. Peter T Treadway is an independent consultant and money manager and Adjunct Professor in Asia ... /investment management firm dedicated to global portfolio management. Its investment approach is based ... that will assist Asian financial institutions with their risk management problems. The Dismal [more...]

Date: 2008-12-15 18:27:27

Subprime Defaults Are Just The Beginning

If you thought we were almost done with the collapse of the mortgage market, you are sadly mistaken. Last night 60 minutes did a piece about the looming wave of mortgage defaults, Alt-A and option ARMs. While, as Scott Wilson outlines below in his guest post on Your Mortgage or Your Life, 60 minutes did not do a fabulous job on this story, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-15 23:37:29

Dubai freezes salaries, boosts spending 42%

Order my book online from this link The new Dubai Government budget is freezing salaries and hiking public spending by 42 per cent to $10 ... undermining local competitive advantages in tourism and real estate. $80bn debt However ... system rather than directly into real estate entities is preferable to avoid reigniting the boom [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 04:51:43

From worse to horrific in California

#fullpost{display:inline;}News from Sacramento this morning has the Democrats attempting an end-run around their Republican rivals in the latest effort by the California legislature to stem the flow of red ink.The Sacramento Bee reports that a vote is planned today on an $18 billion package of tax increases and budget cuts, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 17:06:00

The Great Crash, 2008

By Roger C. AltmanFrom Foreign Affairs , January/February 2009 Summary: The financial crisis has called into serious question the credibility of western governments and may precipitate an eastward shift of power. ROGER C. ALTMAN is Chair and CEO of Evercore Partners. He was U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary in 1993-94 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 09:00:00

Property investor eyes new, cautious paradigm

Welcome to Eyeball 2009! This is our holiday gift to you: Two weeks of outlooks on local real estate conditions! ... estate investment management firm. The company did $3.7 billion worth of business ... : When will the real estate market hit bottom? Robert: My comments are centered on the commercial real [more...]

Date: 2008-12-26 12:59:06

Allied Irish: Buyer Beware or Easy Money?

Allied Irish Banks PLC (AIB) is Ireland’s largest bank, and in the last two years the company’s shares have been on a relentless march downwards ... had boomed and the small island’s real estate was very much in demand. The Irish success story even earned ... the Irish and American institutions. As everyone is well aware, the U.S. real estate downturn [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 06:05:29

Allied Irish: Buyer Beware or Easy Money?

Allied Irish Banks PLC (AIB) is Ireland’s largest bank, and in the last two years the company’s shares have been on a relentless march downwards ... had boomed and the small island’s real estate was very much in demand. The Irish success story even earned ... the Irish and American institutions. As everyone is well aware, the U.S. real estate downturn [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 06:05:29

Appraisal Fraud and Industry Standards Described in 2003 Official White Paper-RED FLAGS DESCRIBED IN DETAIL WITH EXCELLENT DIAGRAMS EXPLANATIONS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF BEST PRACTICES

loan_origination_mortgage_fraud_ffiecloan_origination_mortgage_fraud_prevention_response_nelsonRed Flags • Critical loan processing activities, such as  verification of income, employment, or deposit, is delegated to brokers. • Delegated underwriting allowed for correspondents that are new or lack an established track record with the FI [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 15:33:10

If Holiday Retail Stats Don’t Have Economists Saying “Humbug,” Tuesday’s GDP Report Certainly Will

If it’s good enough for Wal-Mart… Looks like the discounting model pioneered by Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT), the Bentonville, Ark.-based retailing giant, will make its way to some rather unlikely high-end retailers: Barney’s New York Inc. and Neiman Marcus Inc. have announced significant price reductions (up to 75%) [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 13:35:50

NYC Commercial Meltdown - Listen to the Message for Residential

According to a recent New York Times article, as we have been expecting, New York City's office market has hit the skids, big time. In my mind, the message here with regard to residential real estate is very noteworthy ... in January of 2008, I penned a piece Commercial Real Estate - The Next Train Wreck? In that piece [more...]

Date: 2008-12-03 21:10:00

Satyam: The End Game

Satyam's case: Now that we know Raju has defrauded the shareholders, on his own admission, it's time to face facts ... were a bank, they would call it an "asset-liability mismatch". Most likely the US government would ... ; everyone will be suspicious. With Raju behind bars soon, and no trust in the top management [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 08:06:01

So Just How Bad Is It In California?

California's budget problems have gone from bad to worse. Democrats and Republicans are at a standstill on how to fix the problems, and while they fight nothing is getting done to address the problem. At the current pace California will run out of money in a couple months, which would be an absolute disaster [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 18:36:33

Foreclosure Short Sale REO Fraud Alert

Over the last year or so we have interviewed some of the best foreclosure short sale REO agents in the USA and have met ... management and they are absolutely killing it! Man I wish I could do business with people like them ... that some brokers and REO asset managers wake up and see what’s going on out there: As the wave of [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 14:09:06

Asian Stocks Fall as Commodity Producers, Automakers Decline

BLOOMBERG Jan. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Asian stocks dropped, sending the benchmark index down the most in a month, as falling metal and oil prices dragged on commodity producers and a higher yen dimmed profit outlooks for Japanese exporters of cars and electronics. Rio Tinto Ltd., the world’s third-largest mining company, lost 4 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 01:39:02

Allied Irish: Buyer Beware or Easy Money?

Allied Irish Banks PLC (AIB) is Ireland’s largest bank, and in the last two years the company’s shares have been on a relentless march downwards ... had boomed and the small island’s real estate was very much in demand. The Irish success story even ... the Irish and American institutions. As everyone is well aware, the U.S. real estate downturn [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 06:17:28

In Real Estate, Knowledge is King

real estate knowledge BiggerPockets.com has done a tremendous job of aggregating information on Real Estate topics through blogs, articles, ... . There are many great case studies. Journal of Real Estate Portfolio Management: JREPM centers on applied research on Real estate investments and affects on portfolio management. They go into great detail [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 19:57:12

ICR Xchange Summary: PacSun

Today, the annual ICR Xchange conference was held in Dana Point, California, at the luxurious St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort. Transworld Business was on-site and sat in to a few of the summaries that were pertinent to our industry. Companies provided some information on how 2008 went, and their focuses and predictions for 2009 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 01:47:15

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