This is the social network equivalent of another motto that comes from the business world: “You are just as good as the last deal you made”. But who has enough time and money to share with other people information for free? You can look at it from the other perspective as well: if you act [...]

Today I have a true story to tell about a successful real estate investor who built his fortune leveraging something he knew how to do well and that other people hated doing: cold calling. I won’t mention any names, but the true story unfolded right here where I live in Clearwater, on the Western sunny [...]

The D.C. real estate market is heating up again thanks to the arrival of foreign investors who are eager to snatch up properties in the area. They are mostly Europeans, but there is also a fair share of Chinese and Russians that compete to buy a piece of the US capital. Over the past five [...]

Two things happened today that gave a special feeling to my day. I was reading an article titled: “Commercial Real Estate Collapse Bigger than Subprime Implosion” published by a blog specialized in investing ideas (http://www.mybudget360.com). The gist of it is that the commercial real estate market is now valued $ 3.5 trillion versus the $ [...]

Statistics tell us that almost ninety per cent of the people looking for a new house start their search online and make their first selection from the screen of their computer before going out and looking at the house for real. It is a fact and yet the majority of people which trying to sell [...]

The real estate recovery in the last quarter of 2009 has been supported by mortgage rates, increased lending by FHA (Federal Housing Administration) and tax credits. Now that some of the support is coming off, the market is slowing down again and will adjust to lower values in one of every five US markets, namely [...]

In the last three months residential property prices in the US rise again after three years of slump. The information comes from Clear Capital, a real estate data provider. Here you can read the full report: http://www.clearcapital.com/company/MarketReport. It is the first time that somebody officially confirms a trend that is under my eyes every day, [...]

Running a business with an online presence requires a substantial amount of planning. It is so easy to be detoured by shiny objects on the web and lose sight of the basic business goals as well as their proper implementation on the Web. I have been working on my own planning now for two solid [...]

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is a British company that provides market forecasts and property surveys in the international real estate market. They have the objective to set a standard of quality and evaluation so that nobody gets fooled while dealing with an investment in a foreign market. … … It is an independent [...]

Mercury is the only liquid that can cut a gold ring very neatly in no time or mix with it and turn into a silver-like dull metal. They call this reaction amalgamation and it is immediate. The only way to recover the original gold is to vaporize the mercury inside it, which few people are [...]