Real Estate As Retirement Investment

Many of you don’t realize how lucky your grandparents/parents were in the 1970s. They were able to purchase a much bigger home than the one you have now, with a much bigger property, but for a much lower price than you would pay today. Are any of you wondering how this was possible? Well let me tell you how! You see, the average house in 1975 would sell for $57,581. After 1975 the price for an average home increased by almost $5,000 a year and in ten years the price almost doubled! The market inflated until 1989 when the average house would eventually sell for $273,698. So, if you would have bought a house in 1975 and sold it in 1989 you would have made more than $200,000 just for living in the house for 14 years. Just imagine if you had bought more than one house, lived in one of them, and rented the other, you could be rich! If only our ancestors were more aware of the housing market and inflation, even we their grandchildren could be benefiting from their success.

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Evaluate Property Value in Canada

Five Strategies to Evaluate Property's Price

When an appraiser goes to determine the fair market value of a property, they will use different approaches (or methods). If you are dealing with single family houses, you'll probably only see appraisals that use the Comparable Market Analysis (CMA). You may find that how you determine the value is lot more different than professionals do.

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Real Estate Appreciation vs Inflation in Canada

Why invest in Real Estate? Despite the economic ups and downs that we have experienced in recent times with stock markets, secure investments such as in the real estate market continue to offer you the greatest and most consistent opportunities to build wealth and financial security for your future. In the most basic manner the most advantageous benefit of investment in real estate is that by doing so, this provides a hedge against inflation.

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How to Find Undervalued Property

Purchasing real estate at market value these days is different from purchasing real estate 30 years ago. Today, most real estate investors benefit from real estate by purchasing below market value. The way to purchase undervalued properties is to find distressed owners who are willing sell their property below market value. Under valued properties are the cash cows of the real estate market.

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