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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: russwinter who wrote (14861)	11/6/2003 9:37:09 AM
From: Tradelite	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

<<It's all about PRICE, PRICE, PRICE. The price you pay in real estate is everything.>> Yep. That's probably why the past couple years have looked like opportunity time for speculators and investors in commercial properties that have vacancies. I guess they're betting on population growth (which the beancounters say is driving the residential market) and economic growth in key urban areas????

To: russwinter who wrote (14861)	11/6/2003 11:34:23 AM
From: Tradelite	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

<<You think they just pay with their own cash? It's always other people's money>> In my question to you about where the money comes from for commercial lending on, say, an apartment building, I didn't assume it did NOT come from other people. I was asking whether how much of it actually comes from a bank. Much of the on-the-side lending in all types of real estate comes from sources other than banks. I was wondering whether, these days, it's still flowing to the commercial sector from private investors using their own cash, individually or in pools/groups. Recently read a story about an Atlanta real estate mogul who is buying up commercial properties like crazy....all with his own money.