Roberto Bell's Articles in Real Estate


  • 10 Reasons Why You Should Invest In Costa Rica Real Estate
    I have been living in Costa Rica for 3 years now. Here is 10 reasons for you to invest in properties in Costa Rica.

  • 10 Things You Need To Know About Getting The Highest Appraisal Value For Your Home
    Whether you're thinking of selling your home or looking to refinance, it's important to get the best appraisal value on your home.

  • 3 Steps To Finding The Perfect Piece Of Real Estate
    Are you looking to purchase a piece of real estate? Whether you are purchasing residential, commercial, or investment properties, you can use the 3 steps outlined in this article to ensure that you get the property you need.

  • A Few Tips For Getting Started In Real Estate Investing
    Real estate has long been considered as one of the better investments available.

  • Add Value To Your Home With These Curb Appeal Tips
    It has been said that the curb appeal of your property is the difference between a quick sale and a property that may stay on the market for months and months. That is why it is so important to have good curb appeal when selling your home.

  • Affordability Measures In Residential Real Estate Markets
    Affordability is a measure of people's ability to raise money to obtain real estate. It is often represented as an index that compares the cost to finance a median house price to the percentage of the general population with the income to support this house price. Theoretically, the affordability index should hover around 5 ...

  • Ahwatukee Arizona Real Estate Market Improving Significantly
    Ahwatukee appears to be shoring up elements of its housing market as buyer demand intensifies. This should more directly result in lower inventory and higher Ahwatukee home sales though the impact from future foreclosures remains uncertain.

  • Behavioral Finance Theory
    Behavioral Finance abandoned the quest of the efficient markets theory to find a rational, mathematical model to explain fluctuations in asset prices. Instead, behavioral finance looked to psychology to explain asset valuation and why prices rise and fall. The primary representation of market behavior postulated by behavior ...

  • Bring Back Paternalism In The Mortgage Market
    As a society, we have created a system that strongly encourages a borrow-and-spend mentality. Saving in all its forms are punished while borrowing is strongly subsidized and encouraged. The credit orgy of the 00s saw this system taken to its ultimate extreme. The result was a vicious credit crunch, a collapse in asset value ...

  • Buy A Home As A Place To Live
    A house should not be viewed as an investment. When investments go bad, it causes financial hardship and anguish. When the bad financial investment is a family home it ruins everything. The joyous memories that are supposed to be associated with a person's home instead become associated with the financial distress of a losi ...

  • Buy Now Or Be Priced Out Forever... Not!
    When prices rise faster than their wages, people can obtain less real estate with their income. The natural fear under these circumstances is to buy whatever is available before there is nothing desirable available in a particular price range. This fear of being priced out causes even more buying which drives prices higher. ...

  • Can You Still Make Money Flipping Houses?
    Speculation is a battle. The forces of greed and fear drive the financial markets, and the speculator attempts to profit from these moves. Speculation is not investment, although most do not understand the distinction. Speculation is the battle of the individual against the herd. For those who understand it and have learned ...

  • Chandler Arizona Real Estate Market Continues To Strengthen
    Chandler Real Estate Market Sees Growing Buyer Demand, Lower Inventory, and Higher Sales Activity

  • Chandler Arizona Real Estate Market Showing Substantial Improvement
    Chandler, Arizona's real estate market is experiencing substantial improvement in residential activity with lower available home inventory and higher home sales.

  • Chandler Real Estate Market Showing Signs Of Possible Recovery
    Chandler real estate is a bright spot in the Phoenix housing market and looks like it is weathering the downturn better than other local housing sub-markets. Indeed, there are indicators that suggest that Chandler may have seen the bottom of the market and that 2009 could be a stronger year for Chandler in terms of residen ...

  • Changing Appraisal Methods Would Prevent The Next Housing Bubble
    Investor confidence in the market for CDOs and all mortgages was shaken during the decline of the Great Housing Bubble, and rightly so. Investors were losing huge sums, and nobody clearly understood why. There was a widespread belief these losses were caused by some outside factor rather than a systemic problem enabled by t ...

  • Cincinnati Ohio Home Inspection Tips
    If you are planning to stop renting and buy a place you should plan to get a home inspection for your new Cincinnati, Ohio area home.

  • Conspicuous Consumption - It's A California Thing
    So what happens when you give poor people money? They spend it. The stories of people who won the lottery and managed to spend themselves into bankruptcy a few years later are classic examples of the pathology of the beliefs of spenders. A great many Californians are spenders. This is why California has a strong cultural pa ...

  • Debt-to-income Ratios And Residential Real Estate
    The cumulative impact of the decisions of buyers is represented in the debt-to-income ratios, how much each household pays to borrow versus how much they make. Comparing the trends in debt-to-income ratios provides a great tool for elucidating the behavior of buyers.

  • Distressed Sellers - Should They Attempt A Short Sale?
    A short sale is a property closing where the proceeds from the closing do not satisfy the outstanding debt on the property. The lender must agree to accept less money at the closing table for the closing to occur. From a credit perspective, there is little or no difference between a short sale and a foreclosure. Both a shor ...

  • Easy Buy Your Real Estate For Good Price
    FsboListAndSell.com has been ranked number 1 realtor website for sellers. Also consider that on average a seller not using the MLS on average receives 16% less or $32,000 for a $200,000 home.

  • Eighteen Common Lies Realtors Tell
    Realtors are agents of sellers, and it is not uncommon for them to exaggerate the income and appreciation potential of a given property to help sell it. It is a realtor's job to obtain the highest possible sale price for a piece of real estate. The most common ploy realtors use it to attempt to create a sense of urgency in ...

  • Emergency Economic Stabilization Act Of 2008 Did Not Work
    In early October 2008, the Congress passed and the President signed the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. The purpose of the bill was "to restore liquidity and stability to the U.S. financial system and to ensure the economic well-being of Americans." The law authorized the Secretary of the Treasury to establish ...

  • Evaluating Homes: Termite Damage
    During a real estate inspection, if any termite damage is found, it will affect the outcome of the home. In most cases, the buyer is told that the seller will fix the problem. Although this may sound good to some buyers that the seller will treat for termites, other buyers often wonder.

  • Everyone Wants To Live Here... Not!
    The Great Housing Bubble witnessed many foolish ideas and beliefs about real estate. Among the most foolish was the idea that prices went up because everyone wants to live wherever they are. When rational arguments fail to explain something, it is only natural that people will start making things up.

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