Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Real estate schools of thought

Everyone seems to be after real-estate property investments as that is regarded as one of the safest high return investments. There are various schools of thought on real-estate property investments. Let’s explore two of the most common real-estate property schools of thought.

One real-estate property approach talks about doing a lot of analysis. This real-estate property approach advocates studying a lot of factors which are generally linked to economic indicators. This real-estate property approach evaluates the economic indicators in many different ways. It takes its cues from a number of financial indices and how they are expected to perform in the near future.

This real-estate property approach evaluates various socio-economic indicators at all levels – Global, national and local. This real-estate property approach evaluates inflation and things like value of money today and value of money next year etc. It uses all these evaluations in order to come up with predictions on how real-estate property industry is expected to fare in the next few years.

So, this real-estate property approach tries to determine the buying power of people in order to determine the course of real-estate property prices. When it comes to evaluating real-estate property trend with regards to a particular place (i.e. locally), this real-estate property approach takes into account various local factors like the unemployment rate, the industrial development in the region, the change in tax policies and any events that might affect real-estate property prices in the area. It also takes into consideration the surrounding areas and real-estate property trend in those areas.

 So, this real-estate property approach is really followed by arch real-estate property consultants/investors who know a lot about finance and put all that knowledge to use in determining the trends for real-estate property industry. However, that is just one real-estate property approach.

The other real-estate property approach doesn’t consider those factors at all. According to this real-estate property approach, real-estate property is always lucrative at all times and at all places. This real-estate property approach advocates looking for great deals. It’s this real-estate property approach that asks you to go to public auctions, look for distress sales and foreclosures, find motivated seller, rehab and sell, etc. So, this real-estate property approach focuses on getting the information about the best deals in town and taking advantage of them to make good profits.

So, those are the two real-estate property schools of thought and following either or both calls for time and effort (if you are to make any profits out of real-estate property investments)

1 comment:

  1. At present time real estate can still be one of the most attractive options for investors, even in a down economy. Today’s savvy real estate investor needs to perform much more due diligence in this type of market.

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