Nantucket Island Massachusetts Directory of Real Estate Resources

I just got back from the Inman Real Estate Conference in NYC and learned a ton.
All in all, people think there will still be pain in most real estate markets. However, there was also a majority consensus that areas like Nantucket, the Hamptons and Manhattan are well insulated markets that are very [...]

Real estate is most often purchased using leverage. Leverage refers to the purchase of an investment with borrowed money (the mortgage). The effect of leverage is that both gains and losses on the investment are magnified dramatically.
Consider the following two examples:
The Smith family has $25,000 to invest. They choose to invest in the [...]

June 6 (Bloomberg) — While it’s folly to predict exactly when local housing bubbles will burst, there are ways to ensure that your real-estate holdings don’t explode.
With U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan finally weighing in with the observation on May 20 that he’s seeing “an unsustainable underlying pattern” and “froth” in U.S. housing [...]

Measly returns on Wall Street over the last few years make the hottest housing market on record seem like a sure thing. It’s not.
By Forbes.com
Where’s a better place to put your money: the stock market or real estate? These days the accepted wisdom (at least at cocktail parties) says to pick real estate. But is [...]

How Cheap Dollars And Cheap Flights Are Bringing Average Joes To A Market Near You.
By Rana Foroohar
Newsweek International
May 2 issue – Property, like politics, used to be local. After all, what demands more on-the-ground knowledge than buying a home?
But over the last few years real estate has gone global. Already, there’s a good chance [...]

�€˜Appraisal inflation�€™ a worry for housing experts
By Jane Wells
It is often referred to as �€œappraisal inflation�€� and it could be the dirty little secret of the housing industry.
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The practice �€” when real estate appraisers bend the numbers to satisfy clients and stay in business �€” is a growing problem, according to real estate experts.
Appraisers say [...]

New York Times
Published: March 25, 2005
By MOTOKO RICH and DAVID LEONHARDT
Real estate-crazed Americans have started behaving in ways that eerily recall the stock market obsession of the late 1990’s.
In Naples, Fla., some houses have been bought twice in a single day, an early-21st-century version of day trading. Buying stocks on margin has morphed into [...]

By Robert J. Bruss
Inman News
Consumer Real Estate News
At the 2005 International Builders Show in Orlando, Fla., economists David Seiders of the National Association of Home Builders, David Berson of Fannie Mae, and Frank Nothaft of Freddie Mac agreed that mortgage loans to rental-home investors are becoming a significant factor in home sales. As much as [...]