Tag: income property investing
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New Federal Homeowner Support: A Boost for the Economy?
What helps the housing market helps the economy as a whole, say economists and financial professionals. With that in mind, the federal government is planning changes to its slate of programs intended to help struggling homeowners avoid foreclosure – and put the money thus saved back into the economy in the form of buying more…
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Innocents Abroad? Buying Foreign Property for Retirement
The future of retirement in the US appears to be anything but rosy. Shrinking pension plans, skyrocketing medical care and new taxes on assets are among the reasons that more and more retirees, and those nearing retirement, are considering moving their money abroad. Buoyed by a growing movement toward retiring in foreign cities, more and…
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The Shadow Within Real Estate’s Shadow Industry
The battered US housing market continues to show signs of a recovery, with demand for existing hones rising along with purchase prices. But a closer look at the underpinnings of this apparent recovery reveals that it’s fueled in part by artificial interventions on the part of both he government and mortgage industry. Some industry experts…
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Naming Houses: A New Real Estate Trend?
What’s in a name? In real estate investing, the answer is, surprisingly a lot. In the current, still-fragile housing recovery, real estate professionals say, it’s the intangible, psychological factors associated with a house that can tip the scales toward buying – or away. And in many relatively upscale markets around the country, one feature that…
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The No Closing Cost Mortgage: Who Benefits?
Since the subprime mortgage meltdown of a few years ago, the mortgage industry has undergone numerous changes. The scandals that erupted over blatantly fraudulent practices led to stricter lending standards and more regulation that both protects and deters potential home purchasers. Now, in an effort to attract new mortgage applicants many lenders are offering a…
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Rising Rents: A Landlord’s Market
p>In spite of other economic downturns, rental housing prices are going up at a clip of about five to seven percent s year – with the trend expected to continue throughout 2013 and beyond. While that many not seem like much, the continued upswing in rents – and in housing in general – boosts the…
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Passive Activity: A Tax Break for Investors
p>Being passive is not generally considered a positive trait, but as far as income tax is concerned, passive income gets breaks not afforded the active variety. That’s good news this tax season for income property investors, who can write off passive activity from their rental homes or multiplexes on this year’s taxes – one of…
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New Home Construction: Barrier to Recovery?
The recovery of the US housing market after its historic collapse of a few years ago depends on many factors, all linked to the health of the economy as a whole. While financial and economic experts point to such issues as problems with mortgage lending, the need to help distressed homeowners and lingering foreclosure actions,…
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Foreign Real Estate: Pitfalls for US Investors
While US housing industry news regularly carries stories about the increasing numbers of foreign investors large and small snapping up properties all across the country, a growing number of Americans are seeking to become foreign investors, too, buy buying properties or shares in properties around the globe. But although foreign property investment appears to offer…
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Rising Home Prices: What Do They Mean?
p>As the housing market continues its fitful journey back to stability after the crash of 2008, many industry watchers believed that the bad old days of the housing “bubble” that led to the collapse were gone for good. But now, as housing prices continue to spiral upward in many markets, those financial and real estate…