By Dennis Norman, on August 11th, 2009
Dennis Norman
By: Dennis Norman
Today SmartZip, Inc. released it’s first release of the SmartZip Top 10 Markets™, a list of top-rated cities most likely to yield above-average investment returns over the next ten years. The markets are hand-picked by SmartZip’s analysts in conjunction with local market experts.
Presently SmartZip, which just launched its public Beta site in [...]
By Dennis Norman, on March 25th, 2009
By: Dennis Norman
I am going to be cautiously optimistic about the housing data I’ve been seeing and say that if the trends continue maybe, just maybe, we are near the bottom.
I’m saying this because of the increase in existing home sales report that I wrote about yesterday and the report released this morning by the [...]
By Dennis Norman, on March 18th, 2009
By: Dennis Norman
Dennis Norman
How many times have you heard something like this from an agent or seller trying to convince you how good a deal is?
I find it funny how often people will base their definition of a “good deal” on the relationship of the price you can buy it for to either what [...]
By Dennis Norman, on December 10th, 2008
By: Dennis Norman
In parts 1 and 2 of this series I gave my history of buying property and where I found the “good deals” at as well as how the times and technology, most notably the internet, have changed things. We now find ourselves in a time when information about foreclosures, property sales, homes for [...]
By Dennis Norman, on December 9th, 2008
By: Dennis Norman
In part one of this story I gave some history of sources I have found for “good deals” in my 29 years as a real estate investor. I also talked about how as times changed those good sources went away. I left off with the S&L Crisis of the 80′ that resulted in [...]
By Dennis Norman, on December 8th, 2008
By: Dennis Norman
As I jump around the interenet reading various blogs, news articles and the like about investing in real estate it amazes me how many people out there are looking for REO’s (a label banks and other lenders give the property they take back in foreclosure, Real Estate Owned) as if they are the [...]
By Dennis Norman, on November 15th, 2008
By: Dennis Norman
For the past year the media has been flooded with reports and stories of how bad the real estate market is. Falling prices, an oversupply of homes for sale, a meltdown of the mortgage industry and now the banks are even in trouble! So what’s the silver lining? Perhaps it is the opportunity to [...]