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Long-term liquidity
By Joseph
Posted in Real Estate , Economics , Puerto Rico on May 26, 2009
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If this is your first visit you can subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Before I wrote about the lack of liquidity and its immediate effects. These include: fewer buyers, difficulty obtaining financing, low property values. This time I wonder whether this situation will be a fad, or [...]

Accept your losses and reduce liquidity during crisis
By Joseph
Posted in Real Estate , Economics , Info-sellers on May 19, 2009
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Liquidity is the ability to convert an asset into cash or otherwise without significant loss in value. Regarding the housing market liquidity means selling at fair value in a short time and with minimal cost. The ease with which this can be done, determine the level [...]

We call a buyers' market when there are no buyers
By Joseph
Posted in Real Estate , Economics , Info-Buyers , sellers Info, on March 7, 2009
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In previous posts I have written about the buyers' market. In particular I have talked to vendors, to understand the value of the buyer during this crisis. Of that, now more than ever, depends on the sale. But today I want to share with you something new, something I find it peculiar to this situation [...]

The home buyer during the crisis is golden
By Jose
Posted in Real Estate , Economics , Info-sellers , Puerto Rico on February 25, 2009
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If you sell a property at this time the buyer is like a god who enters your home. We are experiencing what the Global Property Guide calls "the world's most Severe Since the economic crisis Great Depression." As you may know, the housing values have plummeted worldwide, access [...]

It's time to buy and sell housing
By Joseph
Posted in Real Estate , Economics , Info-Buyers , sellers info , San Patricio on January 22, 2009
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Today, real estate market is really slow. First, home sellers are giddy with the collapse of its real estate values and other buyers are paralyzed by an uncertain economy. However, if we insert some rationality to this situation, we could reduce this gap and achieve revive the sale of property. Not everything is bad in this market, in fact, to have money and qualify, it should sell and buy.

Seven key points on the crisis
By Joseph
Posted in Real Estate , Economics on November 28, 2008
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Via Urban Digs comes this article in New York Magazine. Although the interview article seven of the "best minds" of the New York real estate world, I think that the comments of them have unfortunately global validity. Here, the events that struck me most and conclusions in bold. 1. We did what we had to [...]

The new real estate economy
By Joseph
Posted in Real Estate , Business , Info-Buyers on November 24, 2008
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We are in a new real estate market. Stress this because there is a great strength to believe and accept it. I understand it so. It is not easy to admit that our main asset (our home) has lost value, or has no output in this market. In the case of Puerto Rico (where I live), have been [...]