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Foreigners Buying Australia Homes Need Closer Watch, MP Says
Australia tightened rules on foreign investment in real estate in 2010, requiring offshore buyers to purchase only new properties, and introduced penalties to enforce the changes. It also said temporary residents must obtain approval from FIRB to buy …
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Advice for a new generation of buyers and sellers
DeSimone, 40, is a real estate broker with his own company in New York and a weekly column on the real estate website Zillow. His new book is called "Next Generation Real Estate" …

Conservative Real Estate Investors continue to be attracted to the long term stability being offered by having corporate tenants in their investment properties.  Corporate tenant income properties have always been a favorite of institutions but now we are seeing more and more regular  investors moving out of residential and multi family properties and into single tenant commercial properties with corporate tenants.
With leases ranging from 5 years to 20 years on investment grade tenants offer investors the long term security they desire.  One of the big benefits of these long term …

Decreasing Property Taxes: An Increase in Profit
With an economy that’s continued to struggle over the past few years, owning property has had its roller coaster of business profits – as many of you know. Rents have been forced to be lowered and tenant regularity has decreased as well, which in turn increases operating costs (such as electricity and insurance costs), and decreasing the profits – also known as net operating income or NOI – a self storage facility can bring in.
As many storage facility owners have found, the biggest expense …

Tax Deductions for Investment Property
As a Landlord, Rental Property Owner or Vacation Home Owner it is important to prioritize end of the year tax planning and tax deduction for your investment property business. You can keep more money in your pocket by taking advantage of available tax benefits and by tapping into new tax saving opportunities. Follow these top year-end tax tips and strategies for rental property owners.
Identify your rental investment property’s short life assets to depreciate them faster. Assets like air conditioners, refrigerator, carpets, clothes dryer, etc can be …

Skyler Moore

Investors all across the country have been burnt by purchasing a proforma, rather than an investment property.  I personally have seen this happen over and over again in the Denver market for both residential and commercial investment properties.  Sure property values have dropped, which has caused real estate owners to become upside down, but often the proforma numbers they were given were set up for failure.
Evaluating real estate is quite simple once you know what you are doing, it just takes some experience.  One of the first things that …