SDB Club Benchmark Real Estate

Miami real estate investing is not very hard to learn, even though that there are many facets that are essential to understand before attempting to start investing. While many books and seminars are offered on investing only a few deliver the desired results. Investing is not taught in any university and it is more of [...]

Builders in February probably broke ground on the fewest U.S. homes since October, partly because of record snowfall in areas of the country, economists said before a government report today. Mounting foreclosures are making it harder to clear inventories, keeping pressure on prices and discouraging new construction. The economy has yet to create the sustained [...]

Lower prices have spurred home sales, but looming foreclosures and high unemployment are clouding the outlook The U.S. housing market has been in a slump for the past four years. When will it ever end? In recent years, real estate has proven as jittery and unreliable as any other market. The average U.S. home price [...]

There are two words that give pause to the most motivated foreclosure buyer: due diligence. Those words mean researching all the risks involved in a property purchase, which in the past meant extensive legwork and expense. But that’s no longer the case, thanks to exponential advances in information technology and the establishment of Web-based property [...]

Anyone who’s been paying attention to Wall Street investment strategists’ forecasts for 2010 knows that a potential avalanche of commercial real estate foreclosures could hit the market and the smartest thing to do is get out of the way. This would include steering clear of most of the real estate investment trusts, or REITs, in [...]

Let’s face it, with the economic recession many people have lost their homes due to foreclosure. While there have been a number of items which have been attributed to the economic collapse, the number one item is the bursting of the home bubble. Homes all across the United States began to loose value and people [...]

Now, the spotlight has shifted to the Manhattan Beach broker, who took over as the 2010 president of the California Association of Realtors earlier this month. Goddard, manager of RE/MAX Marquee Partners in Manhattan Beach, began selling real estate 35 years ago, specializing in residential properties, residential income properties and commercial buildings. Goddard also is [...]