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October 16, 2007
First hand account of Condo market in turmoil
Analysis of: Report:Condo Market Cools | www.landscapeonline.com
Author: GLG Expert Contributor
Data from the source article shows the condominium market on a sharp decline this year.  As a former condominium owner (from 2002 through 2005) I offer several solid explanations for me and others abandoning condominiums. First came problems financing my condo, resulting in an exhorbitant...
October 15, 2007
Can the falling condominium market be rescued? That depends.
Analysis of: Report:Condo Market Cools | www.landscapeonline.com
Author: GLG Expert Contributor
National statistics are important but remember that all real estate is local. Any decision regarding pricing must be preceded by detailed market research.
Paul BurnsOctober 15, 2007
The High-Rise Condo and Condo Conversion markets are about to see project failures and possibly bank closures
Analysis of: A Bank Bet on Condos, but Buyers Want Out | www.nytimes.com
Author: Paul Burns, Owner, City Investments
The numbers of high rise and condo conversion projects planned and at least partially funded in Miami, San Diego, Las Vegas, Chicago, New York City, Los Angeles and even on Central Avenue and at Lake Tempe and throughout Phoenix and Scottsdale far exceeds the possible market. The plans were drawn to...
October 15, 2007
Wall Street Driven Condo Glut's Only Cure is the Customer
Analysis of: Report:Condo Market Cools | www.landscapeonline.com
Author: GLG Expert Contributor
The condo glut of '07 in the Washington DC metro area exists today not because droves of condo-hungry customers have vanished from the marketplace.  Publicly-traded home builders projected market growth on the DC Metro market as a whole without examining the reality behind consumer demand in individual...
October 8, 2007
Is Their Really "A New Order Upon Us" in Homebuilding?
Analysis of: Homebuilders Liquidate Assets in Desperation Sales | www.bloomberg.com
Author: GLG Expert Contributor
Is Their Really "A New Order Upon Us" in Homebuilding? If you accept everything you read and hear in the media, you might be led to believe that.  It's true, as Bloomberg reported, that some of the larger builders are dumping inventory.  But before we draw any conclusions about "A...
Paul BurnsOctober 8, 2007
The Recapitalization of Home Building and Commercial Real Estate is Underway
Analysis of: Homebuilders Liquidate Assets in Desperation Sales | www.bloomberg.com
Author: Paul Burns, Owner, City Investments
The subject article is a presentation of the reality in today’s home building business. It speaks of overextended capital plans and the reality of maintaining positive cash flow. The state of the industry today parallels if not exceeds the difficulties of the early 90’s, early 80’s and mid-seventies....
October 8, 2007
Central Texas Builder Actions and Long Term Implications
Analysis of: Homebuilders Liquidate Assets in Desperation Sales | www.bloomberg.com
Author: GLG Expert Contributor
Public Builders in the Central Texas housing market are dropping land contracts and lot option contracts, or renegotiating their takedowns. All builders are converting to cash and downsizing their balance sheets. Big builders are confiding that, in a couple of years, depending on absoprtion, they will...
Paul BurnsOctober 1, 2007
We need new land development financing techniques
Analysis of: Region’s home equity called OK June 9, 2006 | www.signonsandiego.com
Author: Paul Burns, Owner, City Investments
I find the most interesting news in the subject article to be an estimate of real inflation at 9.5 % per year in the first years of this century. Talk about working against some long odds in maintaining wages or keeping up with costs to build. At the same times, the Las Vegas Sun recently noted that...
September 26, 2007
Stuck in the dolldrums
Analysis of: Tilting At Windmills | www.forbes.com
Author: GLG Expert Contributor
I would agree that wind power will not be the savior of any energy crisis. The scale of construction required/ initial investment greatly excedes the energy return. Being an inventor of a patented revolutionary dc electric generator, my work in this specialized energy field has gone essentialy...
September 25, 2007
IS THE LAS VEGAS REAL ESTATE MARKET ON THE CUSP OF A REBOUND?
Analysis of: Local home sales stay down | www.lvrj.com
Author: Steve Bottfeld, Principal, Marketing Solutions
As you know by now, the Federal Reserve Board surprised the financial world with a ½% reduction in interest rates. The impact of that action may curtail the amount of time the Nation will spend mired in a housing slump. Nowhere was this information better received than Las Vegas. There is greater...

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