Saturday, January 29, 2011
Technology Continues to Impact How we Invest in Real-Estate
The world continues to get smaller as technology impacts how we invest in real-estate. Recently, the Canadian Real Estate Association announced the release of various mobile technologies. This will no doubt change the way both the primary housing buyers and real-estate investors search listings for potential real-estate investment properties. Now you can go to the neighborhood you like and use your phone to search for listing ‘near me’ to find all potential listings. This tool will be particularly valuable to anyone investing in real-estate as often investors look for properties in a particular area. Investors interested in buying rental properties can scout out specific neighborhoods they like and use the application to locate comparable listings that they might also be interested in without having to go back to their home or office to do so. This is another good application of technology that the average person can leverage for investing in real-estate.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Building your real-estate investment plan for 2011?
Everyone that is building their 2011 real-estate investment business plan would like to have a magic ball that could tell them what the market will do. You're likely asking the question - should I still be buying rental properties in this economy? It's a difficult question to answer as there are a lot of variable to consider.
An article by the CIBC's Senior Economist Benjamin Tal answers some important questions about the year ahead. While Tal is fairly conservative in his outlook for 2011 it doesn't mean there won't still be good opportunities for buying rental properties, specifically positive cash flow real-estate. It just means investors will need to be more dilligent than in the past. Tal speculates that interest rates should remain low and stable for 2011 and that real-estate prices will drop slightly but then stabalize in the later half of the year. With near record low interest rates and a further reduction in prices there should be an increase in the availability of positive cash flow real-estate.
An article by the CIBC's Senior Economist Benjamin Tal answers some important questions about the year ahead. While Tal is fairly conservative in his outlook for 2011 it doesn't mean there won't still be good opportunities for buying rental properties, specifically positive cash flow real-estate. It just means investors will need to be more dilligent than in the past. Tal speculates that interest rates should remain low and stable for 2011 and that real-estate prices will drop slightly but then stabalize in the later half of the year. With near record low interest rates and a further reduction in prices there should be an increase in the availability of positive cash flow real-estate.
Sunday, January 2, 2011
New - Featured Investment Property Analysis
What's your rental property investment plan for 2011? If you are going to continue to look for positive cash-flow properties in 2011, check out our new monthly Featured Properties posts to learn more about what to look for in new investment properties.
Our first featured property is a 2 br + 1 ba condo located in Ladysmith (BC), 88 km north of Victoria, the capitol of British Columbia, and 23 km south of Nanaimo, on Vancouver Island. Click here to see the full property investment analysis, including a rental property cash-flow calculator.
Our first featured property is a 2 br + 1 ba condo located in Ladysmith (BC), 88 km north of Victoria, the capitol of British Columbia, and 23 km south of Nanaimo, on Vancouver Island. Click here to see the full property investment analysis, including a rental property cash-flow calculator.
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