Archive for January, 2009

Foreign Investors More Confident on the Outlook of U.S. Real Estate

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

Foreign investors forecast a better year for the real estate market of the United States. Businessmen are expected to invest more in 2009 compared to the previous year.

According to a survey of the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate, loans from real estate lenders are fore casted to increase by as much as 58% in the United States and around 54% globally. Based on their data, activities of investors in the market are expected to increase by 73% in the U.S. and about 40% across the globe.

Members of the association are looking forward to more sound investment fundamentals in 2009 compared to the previous year which forced most investors to be guarded because of the market uncertainty.

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Investing in Middle-East Real Estate, Can you make money?

Friday, January 9th, 2009

It’s time to compare and contrast–this is my favorite part of real estate investments. In Carlsbad, California, a 3 bedroom, 3 and a half bathroom home with a marvelous–emphasis on marvelous–ocean view, home, styled like a palace, is up for two and a half million dollars. In the Middle-East, a populous city called Dubai, to be exact, is selling an apartment for no more than 2 million USD. You may be thinking, ‘That’s nice, but what about that marvelous ocean view in California?’ Good news–these apartments are stationed on an Island, immersed in water. You can’t get more oceanic than that.

People all across the globe who are looking to venture far and elaborately don’t need to look any farther than the Middle-East. With so many conflicts rising, this might be a laughable remark. But the only person laughing, in the end, will be the one who made the remark. The Middle-East is a bankable conquest! With so much availible property built on land so breathtaking and near oceans so vast and remarkable–and selling at an affordable price–the Middle-East will be more sought after than mansions in Paris and palaces in Italy. A) The land is just as beautiful. B) You can make more money in the Middle-East than you can in any part of Europe. I’m not saying you should be looking at Iraq Real Estate or something, but there are SAFE countries in the Middle East too!

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