Thomas Klutznick retires from namesake firm – Denver Business Journal

February 27, 2009 on 2:00 am | In Real Estate | No Comments

Thomas Klutznick retires from namesake firm – Denver Business Journal
Real estate developer John Klutznick will take over corporate responsibilities at the Thomas J. Klutznick Co. , with the retirement of his father and company namesake Thomas Klutznick. The company, which has changed its name to Klutznick Co. to

Real estate rookies may dominate market – The Chronicle Herald
TORONTO Lower home prices and shifting demographics mean first-time buyers could lead a rebound in Canada s real estate market, experts said Wednesday at a real estate conference in Toronto. Phil Soper, president and CEO of Brookfield Real

Huntingdon REIT announces conditional sale of Cityplace – CNW Group
WINNIPEG, Feb. 26 /CNW/ – Huntingdon Real Estate Investment Trust (“HREIT”) (TSX: HNT.UN) today announced the conditional sale of the Cityplace property in Downtown Winnipeg for $81.5 Million. The sale is conditional on, among other things, the

Want To Be Profitable In This Real Estate Bubble? Ill Show You How In Just Three Easy Steps

February 26, 2009 on 3:01 pm | In Real Estate | No Comments

This is a question I get almost everyday from either our web site www.GetPreconstructionProfit.com or from my individual investment activities. The question is How Can I Be Profitable When We Are In A Real Estate Bubble?

STEP#1. First you have to recognize that in order to make money in almost any market (i.e. stocks, commodities, real estate, etc.) you need to have the market in motion. In other words, the prices or value have to be changing substantially, either up or down, for you to make money. Did you know that many traders back in the NASDAQ bubble made millions by adopting a style that made perfect sense for the type of bubble market that was being experienced? Of course this was financially devastating to buy and hold investors who bought at the market top. So what is the difference? The answer is a difference in investing/trading style and risk management.

STEP #2. Now throw a little reality into the picture. Specifically, you need to realize that nobody can consistently predict the turning point of a rapidly moving market. People who pay attention to value (which is always a wise move) can tell you when things are out of whack with the market, but they cannot tell you if the market will turn in a week, a year, or a decade! Warren Buffet correctly predicted that the stock market was way over valued LONG before it actually corrected. Since Warren is a value-type investor, it made perfect sense to stay on the sidelines. In contrast, many active traders became multiple millionaires during that period and then rapidly adapted to the market downturn. Both were correct for the type of style that they employed.

STEP #3. You have to realize that there are many ways for an overvalued market to correct. For example, in the real estate markets, many people are claiming that the price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio is out-of-balance; that is the price you can collect for rents in a year relative to the purchase price. Typically this should be around a ratio of 100 to 150 for a good cashflow investment. In some areas of the country, this ratio is over 400.

You need to realize that this imbalance can be corrected by the price dropping (as many claim), rents escalating, or combinations of both. In addition, it may not correct as demonstrated in many markets for over 20 years! So your choice becomes do I sit on the sidelines or do I learn how to invest safely in this fast moving market. This is a personal choice that you have to make in regards to your own personal style.

Want to know an additional little secret? Like in stock trading, the secret to any successful investing is learning how to control your risk relative to your potential gain. Its that simple! As an example, there are preconstruction real estate deals out there where an investor can risk less than $2,000 and can still make a potential reward of $50,000 or more. If the investment does not work out, then all that investor is out is the $2,000 initial risk. Knowing that little piece of information can potentially save you hundreds of thousands of dollars! For investors that participate in real estate investments on a continuous basis, they always try to educate themselves on the risk potential first followed by the potential for gain.

The bottom line is that if you follow these simple steps, you can also learn how to invest in markets that other people perceive as dangerous bubbles!

About the Author: Chris Anderson is a leading authority on preconstruction real estate investing. Get his 4 day e-mail course and a 33 minute video free today! Visit http://www.GetPreconstructionProfits.com & http://www.GetPreconstructionDeals.com. In addition, Dr. Anderson is the on-line training coordinator at the Van Tharp Institute, a group that provides world class training for investors and traders.

Getting W.I.R.E.D.! World Internet Real Estate Development On The Rise

February 26, 2009 on 3:00 pm | In Real Estate | No Comments

A neat thing is happening on the web. Sort of an e-renaissance in a sense. A small but hardy and professional group of internet niche site publishers is picking up on the boom in internet real estate development. They are becoming WIRED, and it means awesome, content-rich niche sites are popping up all over the net.

Almost every surfer on the web has run into a junky site intended only for them to click an ad. You know the kind of site I’m talking about…no content, nothing of value to the visitor, and very frustrating to land on.

This is the intention of the developer. They WANT you to be in a hurry to get away…through one of their pay-per-click links.

These sites are fast disappearing from the big engines. This is great news. What’s even better is the sites that replace them in the engines are starting to look very nice, both in design and quality of content.

More and more searchers are starting to actually find answers to their searches on the first try again!

Rest assured, the people behind these new content sites are not the same people they’ve replaced. These are folks who actually care about their visitor experience on their sites. They want their visitors to come back again and are providing enough value to visitors to actually bookmark them and do just that.

What “World Internet Real Estate Developers” have re-discovered is that asset building is far more successful, responsible, grown up, and profitable than building spam sites.

They are starting to build sites that they are proud to show to the world, and the world is responding with great enthusiasm! Even the engines are treating these developers with the respect and admiration they deserve.

Good content makes good “cents” too. Of course that phrase has been bandied about so much in the last year that it seemed as if everyone was talking about it but few were actually practicing what they were preaching.

The value of a fairly aged content site with a few hundred visitors a day is very high compared to just a year ago. Many people invest in one or two of these niche sites that are already in the engines and getting traffic when they find them for sale.

And a good investment it is! If you can get someone to part with a modest traffic site that is already seasoned in the engines, you are lucky to snag one for anywhere from $5,000-$100,000+ depending on the niche, products, and income of the site.

The developers of rich content sites are not only walking to the bank with daily income that rivals the corporate salary they replaced, but can cash out of a network of niche sites at very tidy sums. A fairly large network of sites, from 100-1000 could net the developer millions of dollars in fact.

Who is buying? Other large developers and even very large Fortune 500 companies along with investors of all kinds who turn the network traffic into gold of their own.

It is very much like the real estate boom after the last world war. Many many developers lined their pockets by developing new housing all over the country for returning soldiers.

The internet is in dire need of great sites. If you think the net is full, you are only partially right. Combined with some great sites with great information in hundreds of specialty niches from fly fishing to scrap booking, there is also a great deal of junk out there taking up a lot of space.

Anyone who has been on the net for awhile has experienced her fair share of lost surfing time on disappointing, meaningless, content-less sites.

Smart niche site developers are quietly building quality, feature and content-rich sites to capitalize on this terrible “year of the spam site.” We all know content is king, but it is finally starting to pay off for the people who develop content-rich sites in a big way these days.

Hopefully the decline of “gimmick” sites will continue for the good of the entire internet community. If the developers of these sites are richly rewarded, then more power to them. They deserve it!

While there is an answer to almost every question a person could ever have somewhere on the net, for most surfers those answers are buried far too deeply on obscure sites to find.

With content sites being developed in thousands of niches with the goal of being found and utilized, surfers and researchers are going to be able to quickly and conveniently find the information they seek on pleasant, rich sites in the near future.

And the people who develop these e-real estate assets are supported by the income these sites generate and any partial or complete sales of the networks of sites that they build.

Sounds like what the internet was supposed to be in the first place!

About the Author

Jack Humphrey is the managing partner for ContentDesk.com. More information World Internet Real Estate Development (W.I.R.E.D.) can be found at http://www.contentdesk.com/csb and http://www.contentsitebuilding.com

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