Archive for December, 2006
Downtime This Weekend
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Well, this weekend which was to be chewed up with fun family Christmas events turned into the weekend from Hades as we have had a myriad of server problems.
We are getting closer. But not there yet. So, for [...]
How Will Governments Deal With Slowing Real Estate Tax Revenue?
While as consumers and real estate professionals we participate in the open market. If money is tight, we go from steak to macaroni and cheese as we say in our household. But when you are the government, very, very rarely do you ever lower your spending. And with the real estate boom these same governments ramped [...]
8Dec2006 | Tom Royce | 2 comments | Continued
Flippers Nation Round Deux - The Blame Game
Round Two is up!
There’s more where this came from at: FlipperNation.com
Round Two is up!
What Happens When Your Town In Taken “Off the Map”?
Georgia DOT officials were in the mood to pretty up the state map. So they decided to disappear 515 towns and hamlets across the state from the official map. While this may seem petty, for those that live and own homes in these towns it is very disconcerting.
And what does it do to property [...]
Commercial Real Estate Lending in Regulators Crosshairs
The Federal Reserve is focusing it’s efforts these days on bank regulation. There is a fear that banks are exposed to a dangerous level of commercial real estate loans and that a repeat of the failures that occured in the 1980s is possible. A signifcant downturn in commercial real estate could create a series of [...]
7Dec2006 | Tom Royce | 2 comments | Continued
Dang, I Missed National Elevator-Escalator Safety Week
Just when you heard of every useless governmental program that sucks the living marrow out of our tax dollars, we found a new one. The National Elevator-Escalator Safety Week was this past November. And you want to know what is worse? IT HAS A #$%#$% MASCOT, ol’ Safe-T Rider him (her) self.
Go to their [...]
Wednesday Blogger Roundup
If you have the time, here are a few good real estate reads that I found today.
Lessons from Harrison Ford’s DIY Home Project – The Frugal Duchess has some good tips. The fourth to add in my books is if the husband knows he can not do it as well as the handy man [...]
6Dec2006 | Tom Royce | 2 comments | Continued
Study: Florida Real Estate Not Entirely Negative
A study out of the University of Florida paints a picture that concurs with what we have been saying about the states real estate economy. Essentially the report indicates that the condo market is very overbuilt, the single family housing units have slowed but prices have remained fairly stable, and multifamily and commercial real estate are [...]
6Dec2006 | Tom Royce | 3 comments | Continued
Is Cushman & Wakefield On the Block?
The merger talk in corporate leasing and property management is heating up with word that the Agnelli family through their Ifil Holding Company may be looking to purchase Cushman & Wakefield. The valuation of the company is a little under 1 billion dollars so this would be a substantial purchase.
Italy’s Agnelli family is considering [...]
6Dec2006 | Tom Royce | 0 comments | Continued
Scared of Santa - The Pictures
If you have small children, odds are you probably went through the period of waiting in line for the picture with Santa. And at that moment of truimph, where you are at the front of the line, your child goes into complete meltdown.
Well, some newspapers around the country put together a collection of Children [...]
I saw this earlier today and thought the exact same thing, Tom. The politicians have been pushing homeownership for ...
I just found your blog and it's filled with great information. One of my goals this year is to update ...
Thanks for the kind words. I promise you the first year we did not have this level of readership. It ...
The limit on jumbo's is either 417,000 OR it is 115% of the median house price, not to exceed 150% ...
I like your blog and I have read many of your articles. I agree that it is amazing the ...
Yes, there are some deals out there. While there are some deals out there, I'm an agent looking for ...
With mortgage rates poised to drop to 4.5 percent all we need now is some tax incentives to help home ...
I think the overall interest in refinancing was definately high recently. However the problem is that although the rates dropped, ...
I have had great success using craigslist. Renters need to be careful and make sure they check out their landlord ...
This is the start of where the market can begin to level out.
Home owners will start to be able to ...
