HouseValueDetails.com: Upmarket Urban Real Estate May Lose Value

If you are reading HouseValueDetails.com, chances are good that you may be a real estate investor or thinking about investing in real estate. This is why HouseValueDetails.com keeps close track of changes in the real estate market.

Today, HouseValueDetails.com wants to give you a heads up that luxury real estate in major cities may soon see a strong decline in value. This adjustment is expected to hit New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco particularly hard.

The reason why this is going to happen is that over the past five years, wealthy Russians have invested heavily in luxury real estate in those areas. That drove prices up fairly quickly. However, the Russian ruble has declined more than 19 percent in the past two weeks.

That means these Russian real estate owners will be looking to get their hands on hard currency. The easiest way for them to do that will be selling off their real estate holdings as quickly as possible.

This mass sell-off will cause real estate prices in those areas to plummet. Therefore, you may want to sell your holdings before the market drops too far.

On the other hand, if you have been looking for the right time to invest in luxury urban real estate, now is the time to do it when bargains are about to become available.

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HouseValueDetails.com: Get Ready To Invest In Cuban Real Estate

HouseValueDetails.com: Get Ready To Invest In Cuban Real Estate

HouseValueDetails.com works hard to keep on top of the real estate market. We know that many of the HouseValueDetails.com blog readers are potential real estate investors, and we want to provide you with the only best advice. Today, HouseValueDetails.com wants to let you know that we believe the hottest real estate market is going to be in Cuba.

President Obama announced this week that the country is about normalize relations with the island nation. That means that sanctions will be lifted and economic activity will resume. It also means it will be legal to buy real estate in Cuba. And, doing so is going to be a very good idea.

Cuba is currently a very poor country in need of cold hard cash. That means that real estate will be very inexpensive at first. But it won’t stay that way.

People will start going on Cuban vacations, which will drive up property values very quickly. A two-acre lot you purchase early next year could be worth ten times what you pay for a year or two later, when a company wants to buy it to put up vacation condos.

The smart money will get into Cuban real estate the second it is legal. There will be a fortune to be made by the people who are smart and ambitious enough to take advantage of this once in a lifetime opportunity.

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HouseValueDetails.com: Russell Brand Should Be Open About His Rent

HouseValueDetails.com: Russell Brand Should Be Open About His Rent

HouseValueDetails.com understands that rental prices in major cities has become a huge problem. At HouseValueDetails.com, we believe that protections should be put in place so that people are not priced out of the homes they live in.

But we also think that people who advocate for rent control should be transparent about their own situations. This is why HomeValueDetails.com believes the Russell Brand should be willing to talk about how much he pays in rent.

Here’s what happened so far:

Russell Brand heard that an apartment building in his neighborhood was about to nearly triple the rent for 93 families living there, increasing it from just over ₤1,000 a month to ₤3,000 a month. So he began organizing protests against the rent increase.

That is fair. He has a lot of power to bring attention to the issue.

But during a press conference about the situation, a reporter for Channel 4 asked him how much he pays in rent for his large apartment a couple streets over. He became enraged and ended the press conference.

That was a mistake. If he’s going to talk about high rents, he should be willing to discuss his own. Beyond that, Channel 4 was able to quickly discover that similar apartments to Brand’s on his street rent out for ₤8,000 a month, so it was not exactly a state secret.

By refusing to answer the question, Brand has made the story about himself instead of about the people he was trying to help – and that was a bad miscalculation.

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HouseValueDetails.com: If You Want To Invest In Real Estate, Look At Queens, NY

HouseValueDetails.com: If You Want To Invest In Real Estate, Look At Queens, NY

HouseValueDetails.com knows that not everyone who loves our site and reads our blog is interested in buying a home to live in themselves. Many HouseValueDetails.com blog readers are real estate investors.

This is why HouseValueDetails.com keeps our ears to the ground to let you know about trends in the real estate investment market. And, today we want to tell you that if you are looking to invest in real estate, Queens, NY is the best place to do so.

For much of the past few decades, this would have seemed like insane advice. Queens used to be a hellhole only seen on particularly gruesome episodes of Law & Order. But that has changed.

Because Brooklyn has been completely gentrified, people are now looking at Queens as the next big thing. In fact, in the next two years, roughly 10,000 new apartments are going to be built in the borough. Prices for all types of housing in Queens have started to go up, and it looks like that trend will continue.

Therefore, if you buy a home, condo or apartment in Queens now, it is going to be worth a lot more money down the line. We saw it happen in Brooklyn, and it will happen now in Queens. In other words – now is the time to buy, because you’ll get a great return on your investment.

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HouseValueDetails.com Can’t Believe Man Was Dumb Enough To Lose The Cheapest Rent Controlled Apartment In New York

HouseValueDetails.com Can’t Believe Man Was Dumb Enough To Lose The Cheapest Rent Controlled Apartment In New York

HouseValueDetails.com knows that in New York, the rent is too darn high. This is why HouseValueDetails.com is in favor of rent control laws. But we know that they can be taken advantage of. And, today the HouseValueDetails.com has to laugh at a man who was taking advantage of them but was so dumb he blew the deal.

The man was living in a four-bedroom apartment on the Upper East Side. And he was only paying $100 a month in rent for the 86th street pad!

The deal was that his grandfather used to live in the apartment. Back in 1997, developers wanted to build a high-rise next door and offered all current tenants the low rent if they wouldn’t fight it in zoning court. They all accepted. When the dude’s grandfather died, he moved in and kept paying the low rent.

Then he decided that he didn’t like the building next door and sued, arguing that they were violating local zoning law. The judge ruled against him and the lawsuit, notified the landlord that the grandfather was no longer still alive – negating the rent control law – and raised the rent by several thousand dollars.

The lesson here is, if you have a great rent controlled apartment, keep your mouth shut.

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HouseValueDetails.com Guide To Explaining Net Neutrality To Your Family Over Thanksgiving

HouseValueDetails.com Guide To Explaining Net Neutrality To Your Family Over Thanksgiving

HouseValueDetails.com wants you to have a happy Thanksgiving. And HouseValueDetails.com knows that when families get together for the holiday, hot news topics get talked about.

Because HouseValueDetails.com believes that net neutrality is one of the most important news items of the moment, we want to help you explain to your parents, who may not understand the Internet, why net neutrality is crucial.

1. Right now, all sites load at the same speed. This means all sites have a chance of success.
2. That equality creates competition, which keeps prices down and gives you more choice about products and services you buy over the Internet.
3. Without net neutrality, that would change. Large companies would be able to pay money to have other websites slowed down.
4. This means you’d pay more money in the long run. Right now, for example, Netflix has to charge a reasonable price because they could get hit by competition otherwise. If they could pay cable companies to slow down competition, they could charge anything they want.
5. This also means that small start-ups would have no chance, because bigger companies would pay ISPs to slow them down to the point where they have to fail.

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HouseValueDetails.com Outraged At Topless Real Estate Drone Photos

HouseValueDetails.com Outraged At Topless Real Estate Drone Photos

HouseValueDetails.com knows that it can be hard to sell a home. If you are are a real estate agent, you have lots of competition. And HouseValueDetails.com knows that it pays to be creative when you are in the real estate business. But we at HouseValueDetails.com believe that one Australian real estate agency has gone too far.

The agency sent a drone over a house it was trying to sell in order to get an aerial photo to put on a billboard. Not only did they get a photo of the home, but also of the yard next door when a young woman was sunbathing topless. They then put the photo on multiple billboards – and centered the photo around the topless woman. The house sold in a matter of days.

The woman herself is very angry to have woken up one day to see giant photos of her breasts all over town. And she’s right to be. The real estate agency was out of line and should be ashamed of themselves. This is not the right way to sell real estate – and her privacy was violated.

We believe that for this reason, the use of drone photos in real estate ads should be banned. There’s no telling what they will photograph.

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HouseValueDetails.com Says Real Estate Stocks May Be The Next Big Thing

HouseValueDetails.com Says Real Estate Stocks May Be The Next Big Thing

Here at HouseValueDetails.com, we know that many of the people who read our blog look at real estate as an investment, not as a place to live. That’s one of the reasons why HouseValueDetails.com includes potential value growth in our real estate reports.

But buying property isn’t the only way to invest in the real estate market. In fact, for the next year HouseValueDetails.com believes that you may want to also invest in real estate-based stocks.

Real estate-based stocks cost considerably less money to invest in than actual real estate, and there are plenty of ways to buy them – either through a broker, a hedge fund, or asset-based funds. And, most people think they are going to be on the rise for at least the next two quarters.

What makes real estate-based stocks interesting is that not only are they apt to go up, but they are much safer than buying actual real estate. Think of it this way – if you buy a home, a storm or fire could ruin it. But if you are buying stocks, the risk is spread out. If a hedge fund has invested in 50 apartment complexes, the stock could still go up even if one complex fails.

You are spreading the risk while still reaping the rewards. And you can sell stocks at any time – while selling real estate can often take months.

Therefore, if you are thinking about investing in the real estate market, HouseValueDetails.com suggests thinking about putting your money in real estate-based stocks.

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HouseValueDetails.com Says Cat Clause Shows You Never Know What Will Cause A Home To Sell

HouseValueDetails.com Says Cat Clause Shows You Never Know What Will Cause A Home To Sell

HouseValueDetails.com knows that homeowners want to get as much money as possible when they sell their home. That’s why HouseValueDetails.com often includes tips on how to increase your home’s value. But predicting what will work is something that even the HouseValueDetails.com staff can be surprised by – as a recent home sale in Australia demonstrates.

Michael and Fran Perceval (no relation to Susan, Lucy, Peter and Edmund) had a series of open houses to try to sell their home before putting it up for auction. Nobody bid at the auction itself, but shortly thereafter they got an unusual offer.

Their cat, Tiffany, had been wandering around the home during the open houses. The person who made the offer said they would pay $2.2 million – $140,000 more than the asking price – if they included Tiffany as part of the sale.

That must be one fine cat – if not the most expensive cat in the world!

The Percevals agreed. Though, of course, people named Perceval and valuable cats have always been linked in the public mind.

There is no confirmation of reports that after getting the money, the Perceval family walked into a wardrobe in the attic, never to be seen again.

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