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I spotted this tarpaulin along Sucat Road across Duty Free Philippines and I thought Paranaque residents might want to check this out. The tarp says a public hearing on “Adopting the revised schedule of values of real property in the City of Paranaque” will be conducted from September 12-15, 2011. I’m not really sure if [...]
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This is a guest post by Angie Espiritu of Filben Realty The term “real estate bubble” sends shivers to many spines because of the fairly recent sub-prime bubble that happened in the United States. Stripping the word of all its technicalities, a real estate bubble is simply about spiraling prices and disappearing buyers, leaving some [...]
So you have announced to the world that you are now a real estate investor, and suddenly, everyone has a property they want to show to you. This often happens to me, and can also happen to you as follows. A friends calls and says “Hey Jay, I found a foreclosed property for sale and [...]
Real estate investing is a numbers game and one such number that a real estate investor who is into flipping properties needs to determine before buying a property is the ARV. ARV can stand for Approximate Retail Value, After Rehab Value, but the common term often used is After Repair Value. Incoming search terms: arv [...]
This is the second part of a series on the three types of income one can get through real estate investing. If you missed the first part, please read it before reading this. You can find part one here – How to get portfolio income through real estate investing Earned income is the type of [...]
This is part one of a 3-part series on the types of income one can get through in real estate investing. Rather than write another 3000+ word nosebleed article, I’ll break it down into three parts which should be more manageable and easier to digest.
Through this series, I hope to help beginning real estate investors by sharing my thoughts and ideas for each type of income, based mostly in actual experiences. You continue reading after the jump…
A post by Cherry Castillo In my earlier post, I noted that the BIR has been releasing issuances showing that they are keen on collecting more revenues from real property transactions by updating real property values. I also noted from the BIR’s Memorandum of Agreement with CREBA Land that the BIR’s target date for the [...]
I remember a lot of comments from readers and also from people I meet in person who tell me that they are just looking for a place to live and are not really looking for a real estate investment. My default answer is “Why not treat your first home as an investment?” In reality, once [...]
According to Wikipedia, International Valuation Standards define market value as “the estimated amount for which a property should exchange on the date of valuation between a willing buyer and a willing seller in an arm’s-length transaction after proper marketing wherein the parties had each acted knowledgeably, prudently, and without compulsion.” In other words, a buyer [...]
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