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Real Estate Investment Strategies Part 2

By Bob Nelson Written on 1/1/2010
Part Two: THE REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT MARKET
WHERE ARE WE NOW
As “Part One” summarized, the pre-2009 investment real estate was red hot, but starting to cool at a rapid rate. What had been “too many players with too much credit opportunity were driving prices ever higher. Now things started [...]

Real Estate Investment Strategies Part 1

By Bob Nelson
Part One: “Recession Real Estate 101”
What Should I Do Now?
As a real estate investment broker, “What Should I Do Now?” is a question that I hear with increasing frequency.
The Principles of a Winning Strategy: My response is substantially influenced by winning concepts of the great Vince Lombardi. He stated that if you [...]

2010 Winter Newsletter – The Barry Apartment Report

2009 will go down as one of the toughest years for the Portland economy since the early 1980’s, with only the Great Depression causing noticeably more pain. While we all know how tough the second half of 2008 was, there was little to prepare us for the turbulent waters and gale forces winds which impacted [...]

How The Shadow Inventory Is Forcing Home Prices Higher

In recent weeks we’ve seen reports suggesting that real estate prices have begun to stabilize. What’s being said is not that prices are returning to the levels seen in 2007, but instead that declines in many communities have now slowed or stopped. Indeed, home prices are actually rising in some local markets. These reports are [...]

Apartment Investing Activity Picking Up

A flurry of recent apartment transactions and positive reports from the trenches by apartment owners is leading multifamily experts to say the sector is finally showing signs of improvement.
“The attitude towards multifamily has completely changed in the past year,” said Dave Doupé, managing director of Jones Lang LaSalle’s West Coast Capital Markets team. “Financing from [...]

Potential Tax Savings Opportunites

Potential Tax Savings Opportunities
Nelsonian Fundamentals: There are two ways to increase “profits”.
Either: 1. increase your incomes; or,
2. decrease your expenses.
Both will increase the “Bottom Line”.

Both of the following “opportunities” can improve your profit margin right now by decreasing your expenses… the expense of taxes paid to the government.
Do I have [...]

Commercial lenders tighten credit requirements

The credit crisis, which is fallout from the subprime housing debacle, essentially shut down mortgage lending and other loans critical for real estate sales and refinancing in 2009. Commercial banks are watching delinquencies increase and vacancies continue to rise, and are tightening their credit requirements.
Most lenders use a measurement called Debt Coverage Ratio (DCR) to [...]

Residential market trends and reports

Market Trends for October 2009
While Pacwest specializes in commercial real estate, we feel that it’s important to keep our clients informed of the activity in the residential arena. At October’s rate of sales, the current 1,939 active residential listings would last approximately 6 months. A truly healthy market likes to see that balance [...]