Category Archives: General Real Estate Tips

Brokering Real Estate: Can Anyone Get Into The Business?

Brokering can come in many different forms and is carried by different professional hats, like those involved in serving as go-between for export/import business, helping negotiate document certification, shipping arrangement, and custom fees, finding exotic cars for the clients, and arranging for buyers and sellers to convene and exchange bonds and stocks. Perhaps, among the many interesting ones is brokering real estate, where professionals are involved in arranging for people to find customers who will buy their properties, help negotiate and close the transaction successfully, and then, […]

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Becoming A Real-Estate Agent

Thinking of being a real-estate agent, but do not know where to start? First, you would have to determine if this kind of career is the right one for you. Most people usually think that to be a successful real-estate agent, you just need to be good in convincing people to buy properties and houses. Good communication and persuasion skills are, of course, plus points,but that is not all. You also need to be familiar with the industry. Real estate agents ensure that the buyers would be […]

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The Wrong Side Of The Tracks

Most of us have heard someone – often our parents, but probably more often a character in a TV show – describing another individual as being “from the wrong side of the tracks”. It is one we hear, and repeat, without necessarily giving any thought to what it means. We as humans, have a tendency to do that – but what does it mean? Well, to make a long story short, it was realized some time ago that people who could afford to choose where they lived […]

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Location, Location, Location!

There is a common mantra among real estate professionals and investors which is simply the word “location” repeated three times. The thinking behind this is that, when it comes to making money in the world of real estate, the most important thing is where the property is located. The second most important thing is, also, where the property is located. This is also the third most important thing. Essentially, location is important when it comes to making a success of real estate investments. Of course, most people […]

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You Can Do It Right, Or Cheap, Or Quickly

The importance of turning a maximum profit in a minimum time frame is as important in real estate as it is in just about any other sector of the business world. And of course, when you create a profit margin this makes for three immediate variables. ow quickly can you do something, how much must you spend and how few mistakes can you make while doing it? The introduction of these variable factors can make it very difficult to carry out the perfect real estate development. If […]

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Spreading Your Wings – Buying Real Estate Overseas

For the ambitious real estate investor, one of the most interesting ventures can be the purchase of an overseas property. There are many of us who would like to one day retire overseas, and even quite a few of us who would like to move abroad while we are still some way away from retiring. If we are adaptable individuals, perhaps with one or two foreign languages in our lexicon, we can often find that the challenge of living and doing business overseas can be an enjoyable […]

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Knowing When To Cut Your Losses

Buying and selling real estate is one way to guarantee an interesting business career – but it is not without its drawbacks. One of those drawbacks, the significant risk factor, is part of what makes it interesting. But if you can play the game well, you need never become one of the many people who falls under the intense pressure of trying to turn a profit. Sometimes, real estate is as much about trying to find the smallest loss on a deal when the avenues of profit […]

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Commercial Real Estate – How It Changes Things

Buying real estate is always loaded with questions and variables, and it takes a confident and decisive individual to get it right and make a profit. It can be an even more vexed question for those who are looking to buy commercial real estate. When you are buying and selling a house, the important issue is that you do enough to the property in order to turn a one-time profit. Buying a commercial property is another issue entirely, as you need to ensure a lifelong commercial viability. […]

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“Buyer Beware”!

There is a Latin phrase – caveat emptor – which essentially, in English, means “buyer beware”. The message intended in those two words is that anyone purchasing the item so labelled needs to be careful. The price may look like a steal, but ask yourself before you go any further”, who is doing the stealing, and who is being stolen from? You may well find that if a deal looks too good to be true, the reason for that may be that it is far too good […]

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How Conservative Should You Be?

When investing in property, if your goal is to make a profit you have to take into account what kind of profit you want to make. Some people will say that it is easy to make a profit, if by profit you mean a small one. Buying a house cheap, and doing the minimum necessary to renovate it, may well see you make some money on the deal because you have taken a house in disrepair and sold it in a liveable condition. However, there is always […]

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