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Guess what?! Property pricing is getting much better! Goldman Sachs is also warning clients that REO investors are bidding up for shrinking reserves of properties. Meanwhile, banks are increasing and turning to short sales and maximized returns, which also means smaller price discounts. For home...

The reason prices have dropped, you know, bouncing off the bottom, is because we’re back to normal months inventory, a six-month supply of inventory, and that’s a normal market. That means prices are going to be just relatively stable; up a little bit, down a little bit. We have to be able to bre...

People are not sure what road to take. Should they be buying? Is this the time to sell? Is this the time to move up? Is this the time to move down? We bring a clarity to that confusion. So let’s take a look where the confusion even comes from. First off, this past June, just a couple of months ag...

  It’s Sunday morning, you head out to the pool deck through your french doors to your pavered lanai to have your breakfast and a fantastic cup of coffee al fresco while listening to nature, watching the boats head out for the day and simply relaxing. Part of your family is getting ready to take...

Lets take a look at interest rates. Just when we think they cannot go any lower, they do, down to 3.4 percent as of this time right now. That is an unbelievable number; people should take advantage of that. As a matter of fact, in the next slide what I did is just took a look at a hundred thousa...

We updated this slide, because it’s not just a Home Price Expectation Survey, but the Urban Land Institution Study and the Mann (ph) Institute Study that said the same things. What are they saying? Very simply, 2012, prices are going to be up just a little bit. 2013, looks like they’re going to ...

Things are getting better in housing, things are getting better in real estate, and we’re getting more positive about pricing. As a matter of fact that purple line in the middle is the average that we have been talking about lately. That’s the cumulative appreciation. Where the other one was on ...

    The Home Price Expectation Survey is crucially important. They showed in this particular survey - and again, they survey over a hundred of the leading analysts in the housing market. Some of them - you know, Lawrence Yun from NAR is there. People from the academic world at Harvard University ...

We can see across the country and across price point we’re in the middle of a real strong recovery, and that’s starting to affect prices. If we take a look at the return on investment - now that the stock market is doing much better also. We can see that the Dow now, since January of 2000, has r...