Market Trends and Condition

Do You Know How To Dress For Real Estate Investing Success?
By: Jason H.
Submitted: 02:05PM on Tuesday 12 August 2008
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Using Assumptive Language Patterns
June 20, 2007
By Bill Twyford

Having a firm grasp on language patterns will help you close more deals. In addition to using embedded commands, which are word groups that order you to do something, you must incorporate assumptive language patterns into your vocabulary. Assumptive language patterns assume the outcome of what you are asking.

When doing short sales you can ask the bank the same question, two different ways. Read both sentences and see which one you believe to be more assumptive:

Sell A House Fast - How to Find Potential Buyers!
April 06th 2008
Everywhere you turn, there’s a media frenzy stitched with doom and gloom about the real estate market.

Buying HUD Foreclosures: What Investors Should Know
An increase in HUD foreclosures could lead to profits for investors
Published on: Thursday, December 27, 2007
Written by: Melana Yanos

Riding the housing bust
Investors are scooping up foreclosed properties, afraid of missing the real estate opportunity of a lifetime. Want to join them?
By David Whitford, editor at large
Last Updated: December 23, 2008: 2:36 PM ET

(Fortune Magazine) -- If you want to mark the moment when real estate morphed from every American's dream investment into every American's nightmare, try the third quarter of 2007. That's when the foreclosure rate, which had been slowly creeping upward for three decades and was flat all spring, suddenly leaped 32%, from .59% to .78% of all mortgages.

Reaping repo rewards
Want to brave the wild world of foreclosures? Follow this advice.
By David Whitford, editor at large
Last Updated: December 24, 2008: 10:24 AM ET

10 worst real-estate markets for 2009
The housing market hasn't bottomed out yet. For the third quarter, the closely-watched S&P Case-Shiller national home-price index fell 16.6%, and experts are predicting further declines. Of the top 100 markets, here are 10 with the worst forecasts. View photosMore from Fortune
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10 Worst Real Estate Markets for 2009
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
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The housing market hasn't bottomed out yet. For the third quarter, the closely-watched S&P Case-Shiller national home-price index fell 16.6%, and experts are predicting further declines. Of the top 100 markets, here are 10 with the worst forecasts.

1. Los Angeles

2008 median house price: $375,340

2009 projected change: -24.9%

2010 projected change: -5.1%

The median home price in the L.A.-Long Beach-Glendale metro area is projected to fall nearly 25% in 2009 - the biggest drop in the country.

One of the National Factors in Dean's Book is "Flow of Investment Funds". Any suggestions on what I should look at to analyze that??

Thanks,
Dave

Hi all,

Home prices in record decline
A Case-Shiller survey shows a 16.6% annual decline in the summer months as the housing picture continues to deteriorate.

Seniors face grim choices amid market shock
October pending home sales slip 1%
Tenants victimized by foreclosures
Taxpayers: Furious over homeowner bailouts

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The home price plunge stayed on a record pace this summer, according to a widely watched gauge of national real-estate markets released Tuesday.