“Owning a home is a keystone of wealth …both financial affluence and emotional security.” —Suze Orman Investing For Your Future Investing doesn’t sound romantic or exciting until you visit Montana. Few things in life are as rewarding and vital – and solid – as owning Montana real estate. Bozeman and the Gallatin Valley embody the very best

The Brookings Institution, one of the nation’s most prestigious think tanks, has issued a new report on the mortgage crisis focusing on the role of state governments.  The report, entitled “Tackling the Mortgage Crisis: 10 Action Steps for State Government,” was written by Alan Mallach, a Senior Fellow at the National Housing Institute and a Visiting Scholar

Do you want to profit from the housing crisis and the mortgage meltdown? Disgraced ex-New York Governor Eliot Spitzer might have just the opportunity you’ve been looking for. Spitzer is putting together a real estate “vulture fund” to buy and flip distressed property, envisioning projects valued between $100 million and $500 million. According to the New York Sun, “Eliot

Special rules govern 1031 exchanges between related parties, and running afoul of them can turn your tax-free exchange into a taxable sale.  Here is an example: Brad and Ellis are brothers. Brad lives in Dallas, Texas, where they grew up, and Ellis lives in a suburb of Boston, where he settled after law school. As a result of an

There are a lot of real estate scams out there and many of them are now offering the bait of making easy money in the foreclosure market. Scammers like to run with the hot trend – and right now the hot trend in real estate is foreclosures and distressed property. Of course, there is money to be made

Even in the midst of the most serious housing and foreclosure crisis since the 1930s, the United States is still a nation of homeowners not renters.  But recent data released by the U.S. Census Bureau show that Americans are now renting their living spaces at the highest level since 2002, and the percentage of households headed by homeowners has

Home prices in 20 U.S. metropolitan areas fell in April 2008 by the most on record. The Case-Shiller Index of 20 large cities for April 2008 shows housing price declines are accelerating, and are now falling at a rate of 15.3% from last year’s levels. The report also showed that home prices fell 1.4 percent in April from a

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