Foreclosures are still impacting the housing market and this will likely continue through 2010. This Updated Field Guide provides foreclosure information and resources for REALTORS® and their clients, including information for those interested in investing in foreclosed properties.

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What’s new in the NAR Information Central library collection? This month you’ll find books on urbanism, real estate investment, vacation homes, remodeling and many more. Interested in borrowing any of these titles from the library? Simply click on the title to make your request right over the web!

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Friday, 15 Jan 2010 02:13 PM

A wide range of luminaries from hedge fund legend George Soros to Yale economist Robert Shiller see grave economic danger ahead.
MarketWatch.com put together a list of their bearish thoughts, and here is what three of them had to say.
Soros says we’ve just finished 25 years of excess.
“The system is broken,” [...]

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U.S. home loan rates could rise by as much as three-quarters of a percentage point in the spring as the Federal Reserve ends its mortgage bonds purchase program, a top Fed policymaker said in an interview published on Saturday.
“You maybe would have thought you would have seen rates move up more quickly than [...]

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Last year, lenders often took three to six months to respond to a short-sale offer. If the response was no, the buyer was out looking for another home after having wasted a lot of time. Many buyers who expected short sales to be good deals shied away from them altogether after having a few bad experiences.

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Home as an investment or just a place to live?

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Shun investments promising high rates of return — more return means more risk of losing your money. Instead, stash your cash in a savings account, money market mutual fund, self-directed IRA or certificates of deposit.
Dear Liz: I am 27 and make a great salary and commission for my age. I recently set a [...]

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I’m often asked which of these methods is better or more accurate and I discovered this article for our readers.
GRM vs. CAP Rate
by Michael Setunsky
Which method is more viable as a way to value a real estate investment, the Gross Rent Multiplier (GRM) or the Capitalization (CAP) Rate? Let’s look at these two methods one [...]

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