Archive for December, 2006

Commercial Real Estate – How To Ask Your Discovery Questions

Commercial Purchases – The Right Way To Question The Seller In order to make a successful commercial real estate investment you need to know the right questions to ask and the right way to ask them. Since purchasing commercial real estate is a negotiation between the buyer and the seller (and probably their prospective brokers), [...]

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Mortgage Loan Market Commentary

This holiday-shortened week brings us the release of seven monthly or quarterly economic reports, but only three of them are of much concern.  The rest are either outdated or simply not important enough to cause much movement in mortgage pricing. November’s Housing Starts report will be released Tuesday morning, but it shouldn’t cause much movement in [...]

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Comments From the Investment Property Insider

Get A “Leg Up” On Planning Your Commercial Real Estate Investment Activities in 2007  The holidays are rapidly approaching and I’ve managed to do most of my Christmas cards and gifts on time this year!  I still have a few to go, but for me most of the pre-holiday madness is over.  It is now time to focus on a [...]

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Mortgage Loan Market Commentary

This week is fairly busy in terms of the number of economic reports scheduled for release. The biggest news will likely be the last Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting of the year on Tuesday. There are four other reports scheduled for release and three of them are considered to be of high importance.  Accordingly, I [...]

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Commercial Real Estate: Raising Equity

GETTING STARTED WITH INVESTORS Those researching the subject of commercial real estate investment are likely to encounter the term “OPM” on a regular basis. OPM is an acronym for “Other People’s Money.” I’ve covered this topic in general in an earlier article, but today I want to focus on raising “equity” for your commercial [...]

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