Hojin’s Southwest Orlando Real Estate Scoop

Several giant alligators were found roaming near Windermere Elementary this morning at the intersection of Main Street and Park Avenue and it has everyone on edge. The students have been made aware that the alligators can eat them and they should stay away.
The school is a just a few hundred yards from Lake Down which [...]

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The best place to find a bargain on a home is an area where there’s healthy job growth and more houses available than people to buy them. These are markets where you have high inventories but willing and able buyers with lenders willing to deal. Forbes magazine went looking for markets where the damage from [...]

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Barry Ritholz from the Big Picture blog says we’re in a similar period in the housing cycle to the market from 1989 to 1991. He points out that people who bought in those years did not get to a break even point for about 6 years and those who bought real estate in 2005 to [...]

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Author of Rich Dad Poor Dad Robert Kiyosaki and fellow advisers from his Rich Dad Franchise make predictions for 2008.
Ken McElroy - Rich Dad Adviser on Real Estate
 
Mike Maloney - Rich Dad Adviser on Gold and Silver
 
Kim Kiyosaki - Rich Woman
 
Kelly Ritchie - Rich Dad Franchise
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The bulls and bears debate the state of the housing market and where it is headed at the Real Estate Connect Conference in New York City. From the sound of things, most of the panel believes the market is heading lower. Nouriel Roubini who is an economics professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business, calls [...]

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photo by Akameus
Hank Fishkind was quoted in the Orlando Sentinel today saying that Orange County, FL is the strongest market in the state because of demand created from the robust growth and job creation in the tourism, health care, education, and defense manufacturing. He says that we have hit the bottom of the market and [...]

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Nicolas Retsinas, director of Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, says in this interview with the Wall Street Journal that the housing market is cooling because lenders overlend, builders overbuild, and consumers now expect a drop in prices. We really don’t need a degree from Harvard to figure that one out, but he also [...]

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Robert Shiller wrote in a recent article for the NY Times, “WE have to consider the possibility that the housing price downturn will eventually be as big as that of the last truly big decline, from 1925 to 1933, when prices fell by a total of 30 percent. This crisis should be an occasion for [...]

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First American’s Core Logic Risk Index was just released for the fourth quarter of 2007 and it sees the Orlando real estate market as one of the least prone to risk. The index measures the risk of loan delinquencies caused by fraud and collateral risk, house price dynamics, and the health of the local market [...]

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Donald Trump predicts on CNBC’s “The Billionaire Inside” that the bottom of the real estate market will be within the next 6 months to a year and says that right now is the best time to buy. A key point he made was that it pays to go against the grain, so the time to [...]

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