Clay Sparkman I got this upbeat article as a special alert on my smart phone this week. It seems that finally the real estate market it pulling the rest of the economy forward, instead of the other way around. I would say that it’s official. Hallelujah! Housing, regional factory data show economy’s stamina http://us.news-republic.com/Web/ArticleWeb.aspx?regionid=1&articleid=10246360 On […]
Posts Tagged ‘real estate’
Good news for modern real estate investors
Thursday, May 30th, 2013Clay Sparkman Well, if this isn’t good news, I don’t know what is: http://us.news-republic.com/Web/ArticleWeb.aspx?regionid=1&articleid=9562167 It appears that now is the time to be investing in real estate and real estate loans. We finally have a turn-around market that might actually be *real* and might actually be steady. Let’s hope it keeps going this way. There […]
How to read an appraisal
Friday, March 29th, 2013Clay Sparkman This article was originally published, on The Private Money Broker Blog. on 8/9/10. Some two and a half hears later, I feel it is worthy to be modified slightly and published again. Whatever you do in the real estate business, I highly recommend that you give this post a good read. The most […]
Twnety-five questions you must ask (re-post)
Friday, February 22nd, 2013Clay Sparkman I originally published this article on this blog in September of 2009. It is as relevant ans useful, I believe, today as it was then. I’m going to make a list today of twenty-five important questions that I believe an investor must ask prior to funding any private money loan transaction. I’m not […]
Draw process for rehab and construction loans
Wednesday, February 6th, 2013Clay Sparkman We plan to do as many rehab and construction loans as we can this year. We see great potential in that area. Builders are under-building (by a substantial number of units, and going back 3+ years), and this is mostly because banks haven’t recovered to the point where they are comfortable doing construction […]
Investing in real estate (either directly or indirectly) in 2013: three articles you should read
Friday, February 1st, 2013Clay Sparkman On occasion, I try to publish links to articles that are relevant, useful, and interesting. Here are three articles which give useful perspective on the matter of investing in real estate in 2012—each from a different perspective. A money.cnn article on how to find real estate opportunities in 2013: http://money.cnn.com/2012/12/01/real_estate/housing-outlook-2013.moneymag/index.html Dailyresearchhunter.com on global […]
Good news for real estate markets: could this be the actual turn around we’ve been waiting for?
Wednesday, December 5th, 2012Clay Sparkman I posted this on my broker blog post recently. It is slightly dated, but the good news motors on. Let us celebrate the positives. (Yet, at the same time, let’s hope that we don’t go over a certain fiscal cliff, out of control and doing 90 mph. It will be interesting to see […]
I can climb; I just don’t want to fall again
Thursday, August 23rd, 2012Clay Sparkman I like what I’m seeing in the New York Times lately regarding real estate recovery. The following article was in yesterdays paper: Here It seems that they are convinced that recovery of the real estate markets is underway–though they also suggest that it is likely to be slow. I’m fine with that. I […]
Too good not to share
Monday, July 2nd, 2012Clay Sparkman I figured this was too good not to share. After all, when The New York Times speaks … http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/28/business/economy/new-indications-housing-recovery-is-under-way.html I’ll try to get back to posting more frequently. I’ve been a bit at a loss as to what to post lately. If anyone has anything they’d like to know more about, please let […]
Another good piece of data for real estate markets in the PNW
Friday, February 3rd, 2012Clay Sparkman This from a recent article in The Puget Sound Business Journal: “Sales of larger apartment buildings in King County are on the upswing, setting a record average price per square foot in 2011, according to data supplied by Dupre + Scott Apartment Advisors Inc. Investors last year paid an average price of $136,509 […]
