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There are lots of really good real estate investments. Property by a large number of foreign invested firms considered to be a really good investment. Large and small investors who are looking for the right purchase, are overwhelmed by the possibilities. What is a good purchase? What about this? Are there any good bargains? These are questions that interested investors ask themselves.

Know your goal
The first thing to do is decide what your goal. Want to invest in real estate for personal use? Want property is attractive to tourists? Are you just planning a building to rent to long-term tenants? These questions you must answer first, because they determine which property you want. The ideal property for one purpose may be entirely different than the ideal investment property for another purpose.

For vacation and holiday travelers
If you are planning to invest in property for holiday or leisure, you start with an ad that a potential traveler or tourist appeal. What is important to them? What would they like to see in an ad? If you can answer these questions, a real estate consultant can tell you exactly what you want. Think of things like:

* A beautiful view
* In the center of several facilities
* Near the most popular attractions
* A private pool
* A quiet neighborhood
* Walking distance to shops

If you search for real estate focused around your specific goal, you have many more chances you the purpose of your investment will fully achieve.

Long-term leases
If you are interested in finding property you just want to rent to long-term tenants (6 months or 12 months for example), you will find it a little bit different approach. First ask yourself why someone would want a long term rent. Two reasons are most likely, someone is working there or going to school. You can search for properties on providing the areas of the city that is most convenient for companies who rent or to colleges and universities who would visit a potential tenant.

Bring the real estate office informed
Tell your adviser real estate exactly what you want and why. This will help narrow the search to, so you can concentrate on the properties that best meet the purpose of your investment. Make sure you tell him you are interested in real estate that meets the criteria you listed. If you search for real estate in this way approach, you will surely succeed in finding a good investment in the city.

Costs and benefits for the investor
Institutional investors hold an average of approximately fourteen years in their office portfolio. While the economic life thirty to forty years. The RAD wield even depreciation method as the hull of sixty years. The relatively short period of fourteen years is due to Western culture where improved technology firms achieve greater economic value than old offices. The investor would thus by periodic enhancements to keep buildings in the market. This requires additional investment. These additional investments are short term, a profitable operation and eventual sale as possible. Reinvest in real estate for most parties is a financial consideration. To determine whether sustainable renovation is profitable for investors, each item will be a business case to be made. This should be demonstrated or the sustainability of existing and vacant properties is profitable for the investor. The financial model of the business case is the following model schematically.

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The model provides the following benefits again:

• Sustainable (additional) investment provides an extended life and an appreciation of the
property.

• The gross yield (BAR) will be lower than after the preserving the BAR purchase, as the risks are reduced and letting increases. This will justify an additional investment.

• Better detectability. The increased comfort of the object leads to a tenant counterproductive of the employees.

• Better re-letting after the end of a lease.

• Green financing is possible after an improvement in a factor0, 6 on the energy label. This means a rate cut of about 1 to 1.5 percent.

• A lasting image for the investor.

Offices sustainable have several advantages:

1. Improved market and a better image of an investor, developer and user. As a  building with a green label conveys a   better image for the operation of all office buildings involved, the letting be positively influenced. Foreign studies show that the average rental rate 3 percent higher per square meter and the higher and more stable occupation the higher annual rental increase to 6 percent.

2. A higher book sales and By the University of Matriarchs and the University of Berkeley investigated the value of sustainable office buildings in the U.S. compared to regular buildings in equivalent locations. The sales value increased by about 17 percent, partly due to higher rent and higher utilization.

3. Higher rental incomes
A rent which energy costs are an integral part makes it sustainable hiring attractive.

4. Saving on energy
The energy bill of an average office is about 30 percent of total operating costs. This can be cut up to 45 percent. The total maximum savings on this resource this brings to 30 percent x 45 percent = 13.5 percent of total operating costs. Naturally, most of these savings in favor of the tenant.

5. Immediate benefits for the tenant
There are direct benefits to the tenant / user in the form of lower energy bills. There are also less easily quantifiable benefits through improved indoor climate in the building. This leads to greater Hammerstein satisfaction and hence higher production, less absenteeism due to sickness and the like.

6. Indirect benefits for the tenant
A sustainable office provides a better image to the outside world and therefore has a greater attraction, especially for young educated workers. Also, less staff turnover occurs and there is a higher job satisfaction.

Ambitions Enough, but the same developers, builders, investors and end users seem to be stuck in a vicious circle of debt each objectiveness why no new sustainable developments in office in character.  For this “Circle of Blame ‘to break, it is necessary that the parties at an early stage in contact with each other.  Fortunately, there is increasing social awareness and pressure on all parties to sustainable thinking.  One possibility for such a process moving again, in the lease agree that (part of) the detectable energy after preservation for the owner.  This gives the owner the ability to invest in sustainable real estate.  At the same time there areenough benefits to the tenant.

Because the government there are different regimes created.  This gives the investor the option at a favorable rate to borrow money.  Green funds can offer loans at lower rates than the market rate.  Investors in green funds enjoy a maximum tax of 1.5 percent.  Therefore, they can be satisfied with a lower yield and thus a lower interest rate loans provided to projects with a green certificate.  One condition is that an improvement is the energy index with at least a factor of 0.6.

The current vacancy rate for office premises is mainly caused by lagging quality of the property. Sometimes there is little to do, such as when it is due to the location and accessibility. Equally often there is a vacancy in excellent location, but the technical quality of the property over the years has decreased significantly. This while the requirements of tenants have only increased.
There is something too, including running a sustainable and innovative renovation. With the goal of reducing operating costs by reducing energy consumption and improving comfort for the tenants. The idea that reducing the operating costs only attractive to the tenant or user is now obsolete. Market research of Jones Lang Sallee shows that the demand for sustainable real estate rises. The investments made for such a more sustainable renovation are partly recovered through lower operating costs in favor of the tenant.
As a result, tenants who rent greenhouse often willing to pay for sustainable housing. In addition, sustainable housing improves the image of both the tenant and the investor. For investors during the credit crunch is the book value of the existing property has shrunk considerably. An additional advantage of a sustainable renovation is the value of the property. On the other hand, the supply of sustainable
real low.

The financial and economic crisis had caused the mortgage to buy a house disappeared from the market. But now they have resurfaced by the entities need to slim its portfolio of ‘brick’.

We must recognize that there are still many institutions that offer mortgage loans for 100% financing to purchase homes, but there after 2010 which were wiped out.

‘revival’ of these mortgages has occurred because of the large stock of flats built by the banks. The urgency to dispose of these homes has forced banks to own real estate to offer good financing conditions, “explained from the portal specializing in mortgages.

This good news for prospective buyers is due to the urgency of the entities to reduce the supply of housing that accumulate. Although all banks and have this product intended for children under 35, not all here. Savings banks have been the first to dust off those products.

Although funding to facilitate access to housing must take into account that they are more expensive than standard mortgages to 80%. “When ordering a 100% financing bank is increasing the risk in granting the loan and that makes 100% mortgages are by definition more expensive than covering 80% of home value.

Usually ask for collateral, charge higher interest and require more insurance contract for granting warn. If before forcing banks to engage life and home insurance, now also claim unemployment insurance or payment protection.

Many people have compared the current financial crisis to the Great Depression. The situation is indeed serious, but it is questionable whether things are or not so serious. The current unemployment rate of 7.2% marked a high fifteen years. However, during the Great Depression that rose from 9% to almost 30%. We have learned from the mistakes of previous generations and financial instruments that we now have to occur as a direct result of hard times during the 1930′s. One of the keys to help the economy under President Roosevelt was massive government spending, mainly on the bust of war also the country’s infrastructure.

The new administrations also have big plans for government spending to a package of unprecedented economic stimulus and create millions of jobs. The new administration has expressed plans to enable the U.S. to become “energy independent” within ten years. These costs, along with others that help develop the economic recovery.

The key to economic recovery is the health of the housing market. We are all very familiar with decreasing statistics regarding home sales. The media have flooded us with nothing but negative messages and predictions of disaster. To move forward we must remain positive and remember that it is always darkest just before dawn. We believe that the housing market has bottomed and the market will change for the better. Since the beginning of the year has been an increase in activity for both home purchases and refinancing. In 1991, real estate hit bottom and then bounce back and prosper. The ongoing fight in the real estate market is similar to those observed between 1989 and 1991. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said yesterday that the Federal Reserve Bank is prepared to use every tool available to help the ailing economy and housing market. Several months ago, former Federal Reserve Chairman, Alan Greenspan, which provides a stabilization of the housing market, would be followed by a strong recovery in 2009.

The tide has begun to change and economic recovery will begin with prosperity in the housing market. The mortgage industry is seeing the low historical rates of 30-year fixed-rate mortgages. The 30-year fixed rate mortgage has not been the lowest since Freddie Mac began the study of primary mortgage market in 1971. Refinance applications are increasing and people who care about studying the purchase of a home are beginning to get off the fence. Factor of three key components to create purchasing power, low housing prices, historical low interest rate fixed, and more money in the pockets of buyers due to low gas prices. Those of us in the real estate industry should have a message. It is a good time to refinance your mortgage and is a good time to be thinking, “Buy a home now!”

The real estate market, real estate, real estate or whatever you want to call is going through a time of great change.

Is that the real estate marketing has emerged from its cocoon and has taken flight with new colors!

The methods and tactics of the past are history, and now real estate agents, builders, property agencies and anyone who wants to sell property should be adopting new techniques, mechanisms and strategies on a technology like the Internet and information systems and communications, or be doomed to be extinguished.

That’s right. Companies that are not already using or implementing new systems and marketing models to sell or rent (rent) their properties are inevitably doomed to disappear in a short time, as surely the competition is doing and earning the market that first will lose.
In the new economy, new marketing real estate or furniture using techniques more and more Internet-based communication integrated with call centers, Web advertising, multimedia, public relations and digital channels.

The height of the Internet represents the greatest revolution in the modern world, not only in the business environment but in everyday life, profoundly changing the way to exchange information and access services.

But not enough to have a website, in fact, 95% of Web sites are useless, digital billboards are useless, dead and worthless for business.
Marketing management, specifically real estate marketing, demand the implementation of new strategies, sales techniques, and above all, the adoption of new technological tools of communication and productivity.

The real estate marketing is increasingly supported by new tools, to the point that in time those who are not effectively using them fall behind, and in the world today is going to be left behind to languish professionally.

The housing market is expanding. It continuously makes new operators and real estate agents, also known as “realtors”, enter the market, providing services and advice, increasing the options for those who are faced with the already not so simple task of buying or sell your property.

How can you do to elect a real estate agent for you?

Here are a some tips to help you with this important decision and will depend on the success and satisfaction throughout the process that must be addressed before any real estate transaction.

• The broker should be a professional, forward security, which have broad knowledge of the market and the different processes of buying and selling, contracts and additional documents required.

• The practitioner must have a valid and active license, approved by the state where you are, and enjoy a good reputation and standing in the real estate industry and by financial institutions.

• Must be a person that can establish an excellent client-agent relationship, where there is a lot of confidence, because their heritage is at stake, your family or business.

• The agent should advise his client on all matters relating to financing, to be able to identify the purchasing power of it, and must have all the knowledge of Finance, Real Estate Appraisal, Real Estate, property titles, Marketing and sales.

Buying or selling a property is not easy. So, look for people who are qualified to help, and demonstrate the best position to do so. Look for that that daily strive to be better professionals and better human beings, and is likely to reach ultimate success in this important task of buying or selling a property.