According to the Center for Responsible Lending, 2.2 million families with a subprime loan issued from 1998 through 2006 have lost or will lose their home to foreclosure in the next few years. That amounts to a projected maximum equity loss of $164 billion. But according to John Checki, a Richardson-based independent financial professional, successful real estate investing is still a reality if an investor pays careful attention, conducts detailed research and has patience.

Home foreclosure rates in the Rio Grande Valley are the highest in the state of Texas. But as homeowners lose their properties, others benefit by buying and then reselling them. A local investor says although it is a foreclosure market, trying to sell the home he just renovated has become more difficult.
Ever since entering the [...]

UK commercial property worth five billion pounds ($8.92 billion) changed hands in the three months to end-September as the market continued to shrink due to a lack of debt funding and falling prices, data showed on Wednesday.
Property services firm Jones Lang LaSalle said British direct real-estate investment in the third quarter was down about 17 [...]

Investment in Canadian commercial real estate declined sharply in the first half of 2008 and investment for the year as a whole is expected to be considerably lower than last year’s record level, says a mid-2008 report on the investment market by CB Richard Ellis Limited.
The report says that in the first six months of [...]

In a chilled housing market where prices continue to cool, bank-owned foreclosure auctions offer buyers a fast, easy way to grab the best deals on the market. Lenders are eager to sell their foreclosed properties at auction at discounted prices to avoid the long-term carrying costs incurred by these loans. America’s most trusted foreclosure auction [...]

UK Hedge Funds and Property Investors are looking away from concentrated property areas like Paris and London’s West End to other markets all over the world, and Philippine Apart-Hotel or Condotel or Buy-to-Let rental properties fit the bill a new report states
PLC International Marketing Networks has revealed that some institutional investors are trying to diversify [...]

Poland has the second most attractive real estate market in Central-Eastern Europe and the ninth most attractive market in the world, according to a ranking by the A.T. Kerney strategy consulting company.
The A.T. Kearney Real Estate Opportunity Index 2008 ranking analyses the attractiveness of real estate markets in 50 developing countries. Points were awarded for [...]