Real Estate
Home Buying: Top 4 Reasons To Get A Brand New House
The idea of buying a new home is a nice one, but most people don’t actually buy a brand new home. In fact, when you actually go buy a new property the only reason it is new is because you haven’t lived there before. What you need to consider is instead of buying someone else’s […]
A Timely Strategy For Boosting Your Portfolio’s Yield
Short-term interest rates are stuck near zero for the foreseeable future. Ben Bernanke said as much when he announced a third round of quantitative easing in September. In his September speech, the Fed Chairman said the fed funds rate would stay between 0% and 0.25% at least through 2015. This is bad news for income […]
Buying Opportunity In Residential REITs
Real estate industry experts don’t agree on much these days. For every expert that’s bullish on housing, there’s another that’s bearish. The bears point out that these are unprecedented times. Three consecutive years of falling home prices with more than two million foreclosures per year isn’t good. There’s also another wave of fore-closures on the […]
REITs Are Bucking The Trend This Earnings Season
Earnings season gets underway today. As usual, Alcoa (AA) will kick things off when they release their third quarter results after the markets close. Here’s the thing… Earnings forecasts are as clear as mud right now. There’s just no way to know what to expect when companies report. Consider this… Analysts at S&P Equity Research […]
REIT Investing: Dividend Growth Is Key With REITs…
Just the other day I was looking at my trading account. I noticed something interesting… a lot of my returns in the last few months have come from dividends. Now this isn’t a mistake. Over the last few years, I’ve made it a habit to stock up on great dividend paying stocks especially during market […]
Interest Rates Are Preparing To Impact REITs
REITs have enjoyed a long and extended run of low interest rate borrowing. But it’s all coming to an end… The Fed is tightening monetary policy and will look at raising interest rates sooner rather than later. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has told us there’s no QE3 coming. And their plan is to sell off […]
Warren Buffett’s Betting On Homebuilders
There’s really no question – Warren Buffett’s one of the greatest investors that’s ever walked the earth. But when I heard about his $1 bet with economist Peter Orszag, I thought the Oracle of Omaha might be losing it. You see, in a CNBC interview, Buffett said he’s betting unemployment will be well below 8% […]
Residential REITs Are Profiting From Falling Home Values
Lookout… US home values are double dipping. According to data just released by property value estimator Zillow.com, home values are falling at their fastest pace since 2008. And prices may not hit rock bottom until 2012… at the earliest. Zillow’s Home Value Index fell 3% in the first quarter. And it’s even worse when you […]
Farmland Prices Surged 22%… Should You Buy?
I’ve never seen anything quite like this… The price for an acre of farmland has gone ballistic. The ultra safe asset shot up 22% last year! When I first read the news I thought, “This is great!” You see, my family has owned irrigated cropland in central Nebraska for more than a century. (And I’ve […]
