Archives for February, 2006

Coldwell Banker - Another Online Home Value Estimator

I ended up withdrawing from my Real Estate Finance. It’s a bummer because the class was the most interesting one I’ve had in few years.

Competitive Market Analysis: you estimate the value of a property by comparing to recent nearby sales or listings of similar properties. You get neighborhood data, site data, and building data, and then you hit the charts.

Trustree sale story about a red-tagged property.

Information about thousands of homes, without any fee… nearby property values, the rooms, square feet, value of the land, value of the house, the square feet, the buying price, even the property taxes.

Leverage is investing with other people’s money.

Properties to avoid as investments: manufactured homes, time-shares, and vacant land. Our teacher made clear to us that these are his views and others may have good reasons to disagree.

Trustee Sales (Foreclosures) aren’t just easy money.

There are Real Estate mutual funds and there are also these things called “stock cooperatives”: where you own a share of the property, taxed under one common bill.