Archive for category US Market
Commercial Market Starts To Perk Up
Posted by Dario Lorenzo in Blog, Business, US Market on April 25, 2010
By Paul Davidson, USA TODAY
The darkest cloud over the economic recovery — the troubled commercial real estate market — may be clearing a bit. Prices of commercial property are up slightly compared with last fall. Loan modifications have risen sharply the past six months.
Commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS), a big funding source that was comatose for two years, has come to life recently.
The developments won’t alleviate the sector’s biggest problem: the rising pace of defaults. But they should contain the damage and provide a lifeline to better-performing properties, analysts say.
2010 Outlook from PricewaterhouseCoopers
Posted by Dario Lorenzo in Blog, Business, US Market on March 18, 2010
Apartment Sector to Lead Rising Property Sales in 2010
As cap rates begin to stabilize, investors are showing more confidence in the commercial real estate market than at any point in the last two years, a new report from New York-based PricewaterhouseCoopers shows.
CNN Money- Plan To Save Commercial Real Estate
Posted by Dario Lorenzo in Blog, Business, US Market on March 10, 2010
A Plan To Save Commercial Real Estate
NEW YORK (Fortune) — Economists have long been predicting commercial real estate could be the next day of reckoning for the financial markets, with a wave of defaults looming as billions of dollars in troubled loans come due in the coming months.
An Interesting Article on America’s most overvalued cities
Posted by Dario Lorenzo in US Market on February 22, 2010
America’s most overvalued cities
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Don’t say we didn’t warn you.
In January 2006, CNNMoney published a ranking of 299 U.S. housing markets, showing where home prices were most overvalued. Little was undervalued: Real estate was white-hot and prices were at or near what later proved to be their tops.
Here’s An Interesting Article I Found On CNN Money
Posted by Dario Lorenzo in US Market on February 21, 2010
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — First, the good news: Foreclosure filings dropped nearly 10% between December and January.
That’s a total of 315,716 notices compared to 349,519 in December, according to RealtyTrac, which issues a monthly report on foreclosure activity.
Now, the bad news: Filings rose 15% compared to a year ago, and the number of people who actually had their homes repossessed jumped 31% to 87,648.
Stop Wasting Your Time With the Wrong Sellers
Posted by Dario Lorenzo in 38 week course, Blog, US Market on November 19, 2009
Once you understand this deceptively simple lesson, you will stop banging your head against the wall with a lot of the deals you’re trying to work through right now. I know this deep in my heart, because I’ve been there myself. Angry and frustrated with how difficult it was to get sellers to say yes to a deal I was putting together.
Alright.
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How to Prepare Before Real Estate Negotiations
Posted by Dario Lorenzo in Business, Canadian Market, US Market on November 17, 2009
In this video:
- The nine things you MUST think about before you get into negotiations
- How to use “walking away” properly
- The one (and only) assumption you should make in negotiations
- What type of reactions I use to win at negotiations
- Where the “ethical line” is drawn
Wholesaling and Retailing Mini-Crash Course
Posted by Dario Lorenzo in Business, Canadian Market, US Market on November 15, 2009
In this video:
- The fastest way to wasting time and resources in negotiations… and how to avoid it.
- What is wholesaling, and how to profit from it.
- The two most important words in understanding wholesaling
- What percentage discount you need for a deal to make sense
- Why you should not work with realtors on the buy side
- What is retailing, and how to profit from it.
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How to Find Sellers Without Realtors
Posted by Dario Lorenzo in Business, Canadian Market, US Market on November 14, 2009
- How real estate agents rob you of your dreams
- How to properly use realtors
- Where to source sellers without realtors
- The ONLY two sourcing strategies you need to know about
- How to be in an immediate position of power with sellers
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Three Negotiating Tactics: Iceberg, Salami & Orphan
Posted by Dario Lorenzo in Blog, Business, US Market on November 12, 2009
I’ll tell you what they are, then I’ll give you a real life example. It’s actually a deal I’m working on right now.
The first one up is the Iceberg Theory. If you’ve seen the movie, Titanic, you’ll sort of know where I’m going with this.
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