All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Real Estate Investment

Dale Reiss demonstrates her total disconnect with the markets when she states this time is a debt issue, while last time it was surplus.  This time it is overall debt, leverage AND supply. If "experts" like Reiss spent more time in the field, they would realize the supply is far ahead of demand...

  Does the glut and greed of the American homebuyers control the market prices? Can Americans ever recover from such an embattled real estate market and enjoy making 80 thousand, 90 ninety, or even 100,000 thousand dollars in just over two to three weeks as our market has afforded us?...

Over the years Timshares have gotten a terrible reputation for being bad investments and hard to use properties sold by high preasure salespeople.  RCI and Interval International are the two leaders in Timeshare trading.  The viabilitiy of Timeshares depends upon how easy they are to use and how...

There are substantial funds available for investment in German real estate from both domestic and foreign investors. Commercial real estate price volatility in German-speaking Europe will be substantially lower than in the UK, USA or Asia going forward. As the economy in German-speaking Europe...

When you read that the subject poll showed that 59% of those polled believed that now is a good time to buy, you realize that the American Dream is still a great big pad with a 6.000 pound SUV or two in the garage no matter what.  JUst like land developers and builders, if you will loan money,...

Many banks will no longer be able to deny huge losses on their portfolios of loans to residential and other developers.  Recognition and realization of these losses will seriously damage the financial strength of many banks, particularly smaller ones.  Expect increasing bank failures.

As problem real estate loans to consumers and builders rise and more residental and commercial real estate goes into foreclosure, perhaps it is time for the banking industry to set up new REITs to pool these assets. The goal? Increase liquidity and lower risk by creating attractive investment ...

The only surprising aspect of this front page Wall Street Journal article is that anyone was surprised by it. While the subprime write-offs, now north of $400 billion, will prove to be the largest, there is still plenty of pain to be felt among a whole host of lenders...and the WSJ article has only...

German retail investors are reviewing their investment portfolio with the advent of the 'Abgeltungssteuer' (capital gains tax) in January 2009. A lot of cash will flow out of equity and equity mutual fund investments into direct and indirect property investment due to the introduction of this 25%...

When you combine rents set and projected at unrealistic levels and an economy where only 22% of jobs statewide pay $17 per hour plus benefits with a surplus of single family homes, you get high vacancy rates in apartment communities.  When the government is seeking higher tax revenue from income...