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Equity Resource Investments Adds Industry Executive Bruce Quinn to Source Investment Opportunities for Private Equity … (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)Content Keyword RSS copy
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Cashiers and Highlands NC Real Estate blog
Valuable resource for information about real estate in the Cashiers and Highlands NC area. Current home sales and values, local market news, investment opportunities and trend analysis for this upscale mountain resort area in Western North Carolina.
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What Types of Investments Can I Buy in My Self-Directed IRA?
Seven-Part Article Series on Self-Directed & Real Estate IRA Investing: Establishing a self-directed or real estate IRA opens up a world of investment opportunities to you that are not available through mainstream brokerages, banks or insurance companies.
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Better Than Bird-dogging for students…
I saw an interesting post about being a real estate bird dog for college students. It got my brain churning about where I'd be now if I'd begun my involvement in real estate when I was of college age. But while I think it's a positive step for college students to be focused on ways to make real money while Read full article »
Why Internet Marketing Is Important For Real Estate Investors
Interested in buying, selling, leasing, flipping or optioning a piece of real estate? You may be tempted to think that the internet has nothing to do with this, but you'd be wrong. Here's why: Let's imagine you're interested in buying a pre-foreclosure property. What might a person in that situation do if they happen to be using the Read full article »
The Politics of Real Estate
Few industries are as profoundly impacted by the political machinations in Washington as the real estate industry. Whether it's old legislation like Jimmy Carter's Community Reinvestment Act or Barack Obama's massive mortgage bailouts, the U.S. political machine has a huge impact (usually bad) on the business of real estate.
Ideally, we could ignore politics. But here at the Bryan Ellis Real Estate Letter, we insist on seeing the world with clarity - including the reality of Washington's aggressive involvement in every facet of our business, from mortgage lending to real estate sales license; from loan modification regulations to appraisal requirements... every piece of our business is profoundly impacted by politics. So rather than stick our heads in the sand and ignore reality, readers of the Bryan Ellis Real Estate Letter choose to be informed and prepared.
Mortgage Industry News
Few things change more rapidly than the mortgage market, and with the increasing dominance of GSE's Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac over the mortgage business, it's more important than ever to keep up. Here are a few recent mortgage news updates:
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Mortgage News
- HAMP Success Tally Slowly Growing
- Western States Working Through Foreclosure Backlog Quicker than Eastern
- Biggest Down Payments in the Country Found in New Jersey
- President Bypasses Congress, Appoints Director of the Consumer Protection Bureau
- Federal Reserve Recommends Expanding GSEs to Turn Housing Market Around
- Mortgage Rates Likely to Remain Low for a While Longer
- Top Former FDIC, Wells Fargo Execs Say Fannie and Freddie Must Go
- FHA Continues to Extend Anti-Flipping Waiver
- More Homeowners Using Delaying Tactics to Slow Down Foreclosures
- Now that It’s Passed: The True Cost of the Payroll Tax Cut
About Bryan Ellis
Bryan Ellis is an Atlanta-based real estate analyst and publisher of the widely read newsletter "The Bryan Ellis Real Estate Letter". With over 200,000 subscribers - including real estate investors, agents, brokers, appraisers and other real estate professionals - the Bryan Ellis Real Estate Letter is among America's largest sources of unbiased coverage of politics and public policy for the real estate industry.
Bryan Ellis serves as editor in chief for the Bryan Ellis Real Estate Letter and is assisted by an extraordinary staff of writers, researchers and editors who are each real estate experts in their own right and who assure that the news we report is well researched, factual, and highly relevant to today's real estate industry.
Bryan is very happily married and has two wonderful daughters. He makes his home in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia. You can contact the team at the Bryan Ellis Real Estate Letter here.