Category: Investing in Real Estate
CalPERS Real Estate
Take BeatingPosted by: Chris Palmeri on November 13
The $189 billion California Public Employees’ Retirement System, the largest and most closely watched pension fund in the country, has revealed
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Is it Time to Buy REITs?
Posted by: Chris Palmeri on October 14
After soaring through much of the decade, real estate investment trusts had
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Good News Amidst the Carnage
Posted by: Chris Palmeri on September 17
People say us reporters never write any good news. Well, there may just be some silver lining amidst all these dark clouds on Wall Street. Gibran Nicholas, who heads…
Do College Towns Make Good
?Posted by: Chris Palmeri on August 08
If your kid is heading off to college this fall, does it make sense to buy him
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Latest prediction: California’s housing market will hit bottom first
Posted by: Prashant Gopal on August 01
It’s easy to call
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The Rapist Next Door
Posted by: Chris Palmeri on July 25
Last week I posted an item about my decision to withdraw an offer I made on
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My Adventures in Real Estate
Posted by: Chris Palmeri on July 18
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Where did all the get-rich real estate books go?
Posted by: Prashant Gopal on April 11
The mountain of get-rich real estate books on my desk reached an unwieldy pinnacle back at end of 2005 — so much so that I had to dodge the…
Twilight of the vacation-home buyers
Posted by: Peter Coy on April 01
The National Association of Realtors announced last week that vacation-home sales dropped 31% in 2007 from 2006. Sales of homes for investment fell 18%. That compared to
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Getting an F in Flipping
Posted by: Chris Palmeri on December 24
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Help
homeowner, get double-digit returnPosted by: Peter Coy on November 13
Lewis Braham wrote
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Land Grab
Posted by: Chris Palmeri on November 05
What do you do when the company you work for eliminates your division? If you’re Jeff Gault you go out and start
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What Happens to the Renters?
Posted by: Chris Palmeri on October 15
In researching our recent cover story on builder price cuts I met Sara Evans,
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Introducing the latest risky derivative: the C-3PO
Posted by: Peter Coy on October 03
I’m looking for an investment bank to help me issue
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Really Empty Nests
Posted by: Chris Palmeri on May 02
Consultant Bill Conerly tips us off on his Businomics blog http://businomics.typepad.com/businomics_blog/ to the growing number of homes sitting empty. Vacancy rates for homes have bumped around 1.5% for two decades….
Tax Tips for Landlords
Posted by: Chris Palmeri on April 12
With the April 17 tax day deadline almost upon us, you should be done or almost done with your return. But just in case, here’s
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How to Profit from Foreclosures
Posted by: Chris Palmeri on April 05
With headlines of higher default rates for subprime mortgages
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Is This Really
Good Time to Be Flipper?Posted by: Peter Coy on February 20
You don’t tug on Superman’s cape. You don’t spit into the wind. And you don’t try to flip houses when the market is going through its worst slump in
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Trump Jumps to the Caribbean
Posted by: Peter Coy on February 16
Donald Trump is lending his golden name to
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Which Bounces Back Faster? Phoenix or San Francisco?
Posted by: Peter Coy on October 27
I wrote an article for the current issue of BusinessWeek called Boom! Bust! Boom? Here’s
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Deeper Downturn
Posted by: Toddi Gutner on June 23
It’s bad news when dismal reports on the residential real estate market are revised downward. Well, that’s just what Ed McKelvey of Goldman Sachs recently did when he re-examined his…
The Rent-To-Own Missing Link
Posted by: Chris Palmeri on June 21
I just got off the phone with Michael Shin, founder of National Home Buyers Assistance. He’s started
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Raw Land for Retirement
Posted by: Toddi Gutner on April 25
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Second Home Blues
Posted by: Toddi Gutner on April 11
It is no surprise that vacation and investment homes sales both set records in 2005, according to the recently-released the National Association of Realtors’ annual report. Four out of 10…
The Other Real Estate Market…
Posted by: Toddi Gutner on April 06
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Investment Plays For
Softer MarketPosted by: Peter Coy on March 30
GUEST BLOG FROM TIM MULLANEY BusinessWeek’s Tim Mullaney writes: How do you invest in the softening real estate market? I don’t know what stocks I’d buy. I wouldn’t be racing…
Should you buy stock in homebuilders?
Posted by: Dean Foust on March 15
Jan Hatzius at Goldman Sachs is one of my favorite economists on Wall Street (as you can tell from earlier postings). In
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No Commercial Real Estate Bubble
Posted by: Toddi Gutner on February 21
Much has been written about the residential real estate bubble –in fact, entire blogs are dedicated to the topic (thehousingbubble2 and economicrot). Commercial real estate is
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Planning Ahead, But How Far?
Posted by: Toddi Gutner on February 07
I’ve got cold feet. Maybe this blog can warm them. My husband and I are 44 and 45, respectively, and we’re starting to think about where we want to spend…
Sold!
Posted by: Toddi Gutner on January 30
Right after I blogged about whether my family should sell our Aspen condo (Jan. 17th entry), I sat next to
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Who buys those ugly houses?
Posted by: Chris Palmeri on January 25
You’ve probably seen the billboards. Big black and yellow signs proclaiming “We Buy Ugly Houses.” Just who are these people with bad taste and money to burn? Turns out the…
My house, my home
Posted by: Toddi Gutner on December 06
My 8-year-old son asked me recently what the words, real estate, meant. Simple, I said. Real estate is property, land, and buildings. Like our house. His father and I own…
Land Sales Could Slow
Posted by: Peter Coy on October 31
Owners of undeveloped land still have dollar signs in their eyes. But with the housing market cooling, builders aren’t so willing to pay up for buildable lots. That means there…
Real Estate Investment Ideas?
Posted by: Peter Coy on October 28
Every December, BusinessWeek publishes an investment guide for the year ahead. This year I’m doing the real estate story. Here’s the question my editors want me to answer: Are there…
Ranking the homebuilders
Posted by: Dean Foust on September 15
Manufacturer reputation counts
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Real estate investment clubs
Posted by: Dean Foust on August 04
Came across this interesting article over on MSN’s Money site on
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Posted by: Dean Foust on August 01
My colleague Peter Coy offered
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Down on upgrades
Posted by: Chris Palmeri on July 15
People like to joke that the bank owns their home. The reality is it’s likely
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Sell your house on Wall Street
Posted by: Chris Palmeri on July 08
It’s not just on Main Street where real estate is hot. Fund tracker Morningstar reports that the best returns of the 2nd quarter came from funds specializing in real estate,…
Real estate in IRAs
Posted by: Dean Foust on July 01
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BusinessWeek editors Chris Palmeri, Prashant Gopal, Peter Coy, and Dean Foust chronicle the highs and lows of the housing and mortgage markets on their Hot Property blog. In print and online, the Hot Property team first wrote about the potential downside of lenders pushing riskier, "option ARM" mortgages and the rise in mortgage fraud back in 2005—well ahead of many other media outlets. In 2008, Hot Property bloggers finished #1 in
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