Quick Note - you’re seeing this page because you clicked the “Instant Webinar Registration” link in an email I just sent to you, concerning my upcoming “Market Forecasting: Emerging Markets & Danger Zones” webinar.  I’ve just sent you an email with the details for that webinar, which happens on Thursday, December 3 at 9:00 PM ET.  The details are also available on this page:  http://BryanEllis.com/webinar/

What do you do if the real estate market you are targeting is falling apart, or is clearly headed for a crash?

For real estate investors, the most common answer has always been “GET OUT”!  That’s a natural inclination, and for investors with a limited skill set, it may be the best choice.

But there are other options, some better than others:

• “Ride it out” - If you’re tempted to “ride your losses” in hopes of a rebound, think twice.  This is nearly always a way to guarantee your losses will grow.  (I’ll show you several case studies on Thursday night’s webinar where the “buy-and-hold” strategy actually costs the investor several hundred percent of their return… you’ll be astounded)
• Strategy Adjustment - if you’re determined to be an active buyer in a down market, you could adjust the strategies you’re using so that if the market continues to move against you, you can exit the transaction with less difficulty than is present in typical real estate transactions.  Strategies such as buying on options or wholesaling of purchase contracts come to mind.  But note - this is a very weak option.  The strategies still rely on your picking a property that will increase or hold steady in value while the overall market is declining, and that’s a tall order to fill.
• Forced Appreciation - Strategies like short sales and buying “rehab” properties frequently enable a buyer to acquire property at a lower than market price, providing additional protection from further market declines.  But there’s a fundamental problem here - a market can always drop faster than you expect.  Ask anyone in Las Vegas - in that market, property owners have been measuring the market decline in terms of dollars per day since their properties are falling in value so quickly.  While buying property lower than the current market value is always a good idea, the protection from doing so can be a very false sense of security.
• PROFIT FROM MARKET DECLINES - Do you know how to structure your real estate investments such that you directly profit from declines in the real estate market?  Virtually nobody knows anything about this, and even fewer use these incredibly flexible strategies for playing the real estate market.  But on Thursday night’s webinar at 9:00 PM ET, I’m going to show you some specific strategies you can use which will allow you to either “hedge” your existing properties in order to protect you from market declines or directly benefit from downward movements in the real estate market.

Ultimately, none of this matters if you don’t have a way to get a sense about the upcoming direction of the markets in which you intend to invest.  And that’s the problem:  If you’re like virtually every investor out there, the most you do to analyze the direction of the underlying market is to consider statistics that are announced on the evening news, such as the National Association of Realtor’s Median Home Price index, building permits, mortgage rates and other “fundamental” market data.

But the bad news is that none of these types of data serve as very good predictors of the direction of one’s real estate market.  In fact, I can prove to you in a highly conclusive manner on Thursday night’s webinar.  You need to make it a point to join us, as you’ll see that the information you hear about the real estate market on the evening news is less reliable than flipping a coin for making accurate market observations.  And more importantly…

…I’m going to show you a professional-grade system for making very strong forecasts for your specific real estate market.  I’ll show you the historical evidence of how incredibly accurate this market forecasting system really is - and how you can use it to make strong profit from the real estate market in rising markets, falling markets and event FLAT markets!

This special training webinar is free and will be held this Thursday night at 9:00 PM ET.  I’m very happy to announce that there’s been an exceptionally high level of interest in this topic, and I cordially invite you to join hundreds of other real estate investors all over America (and many international guests as well) to learn how to remove the blinders and invest with confidence in the current real estate investing market in the United States.

If you have any questions or comments about market analysis and predictive models for the real estate market, you’re welcomed to enter those thoughts in the space below.  Have a great day and I’ll see you on Thursday night at 9:00 PM ET!

Just a quick note…

…You may have noticed, as I have, that there has been a strong increase in the number of real estate auctions being advertised.

I’m usually not particularly interested in real estate auctions, if only because I don’t have a good base of knowledge for how to profitably participate in them.

However, my interest has increased a lot lately for one reason:  The relative prevalence of auction-style selling in any market is frequently an indicator for the health of that market.

Here’s what I mean:  Generally speaking, the more real estate auctions that are being held, the weaker the underlying view of the real estate market is.  And conversely, as the number of real estate auctions begins to decline, that will frequently serve as a leading indicator of a recovering real estate market.

So that’s the tip for today:  Pay attention to the number of real estate auctions happening in your target market.  As the number of auctions increases, the underlying market is probably softening.  And as the number of auctions decreases, the underlying market is probably strengthening.

And what’s more, this information gives you a very near real-time indicator of the current health of your target market.

Hope this little tip helps.  As always, your comments are welcomed.  And thank you for reading RealEstate.BryanEllis.com!

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