Wednesday, June 24, 2009

PREVENTING FINANCIAL FAILURE

1. How to prevent a personal financial failure with Real Estate..
The only common sense approach for preventing a financial failure when dealing with Real Estate property is a responsible buying and budget planning strategy for those Who are considering to invest in Real Estate. Real Estate buyer must take a full charge in managing a budget by carefully estimating the amount of money the buyer would need to allocate in order to purchase and maintain a Real Estate property. Regardless any sort of influence coming from Government, Banks, Brokers or Sellers towards a home buyer, the buyer must choose a right property, find an appropriate financing solution, reserve a sufficient amount of money for property maintenance, put some money aside in a case of economy downturns, continue wisely manage other investments and financial matters. There is no magic for finding the best long and short-term solutions for your budget out of a Real Estate buying puzzle but a good and steady personal effort.
2. Why it is so difficult to solve a Real Estate buying puzzle..?
When exploring Real Estate market you may find the process of choosing and buying a home complicated and cumbersome. Let's just take a brief look at the numerous parameters involved in this search endeavor.
A. Equity progress estimate
Equity progress is based on a property market value (where you buy and what you buy) and Home Appreciation Rate. The speed of equity build-up produces a tremendous effect on homeowner's immediate and future financial balances.
B. Financing
Suppose you do not have enough cash to bypass a real estate purchase financing stage and, then you have to manage a few more very common variables of a Real Estate buying puzzle:

Principal amount
Down payment amount
Term of mortgage
Mortgage interest rate

A variation of these variables may bring significantly different results on a long run.
C. Real estate property related expenses
Property carrying expenses is your next big concern when purchasing a home. The following list can partially reflect the contributors to these costs:

Mortgage payment
Property tax
Strata or condo fee
Homeowner insurance
Energy cost
Water and/or Sewer
Maintenance
Home improvement loan

It is obvious that every single contributor depends on Where you buy, What you buy and Who is buying a property (individual ability to maintain and manage the costs involved). Bear in mind, that a standard Real Estate analysis used by the banks and other financial institutions for official presentations may not consider all the parameters, which you will be needed for comprehensive analysis of your immediate costs and for projecting the balances into a long-term prospective. Let's us also take a brief look at some additional aspects of a household budget management which can be definitely incorporated into a real estate analysis while searching for a property.
The cost of using your household vehicles for commute is always bringing a significant burden to your budget and greatly depends on a location of the property.
Beside transportation costs the property's whereabouts may trigger some additional expenses related to the specifics of the location, for example:

Choosing a private school for children instead of public
Extra spending for leisure activities specific to location
Food and services costs
Health and/or other Insurance policies rates

Another extremely important aspect of money management while dealing with a real estate property is the mortgage payment strategy. Invoking an accelerated mortgage payment method can substantially decrease the amount of mortgage interest to be paid off. Making some amount of extra mortgage payment on a regular basis will certainly rearrange the investment pattern and impact the accumulation of saving amount and investment funds on a long run.
Moreover, the outcome produced by mortgage payment, investment and saving strategies is also affected additionally by a number of parameters such as income tax bracket, investment return rates, interest tax deduction amounts, inflation rates, personal spending, etc.
All the financial matters just listed above do certainly bring a significant complexity to a Real Estate investing and budget balancing equation, which can not be solved successfully without the scrupulous data collection and assistance of a professional mathematical analysis.
3. Extremely inexpensive and yet very effective solution for analyzing real estate properties, comparing and projecting the balances in advance..
If you are happened to be that considerate and responsible real estate investor or home seeker who is searching for a possibly most comprehensive analytical instrument developed to project the home carrying costs and balances in advance, then you definitely should look into a software package from REwiser group named 'Real Estate Analytical Companion'. Their software package helps home seekers to perform the most comprehensive financial overview and conduct a long-term cost analysis of real estate properties while exploring real estate market and before making a purchase decision based on some non-pragmatic personal preferences. This package also enables users to project the outcome of each prospective purchase on a budget while taking into consideration some non-traditional parameters such as personal saving and spending, mortgage with accelerated options payments, investment returns, transportation expenses, home energy cost and more.
Real Estate Analytical Companion has been also designed to assist home buyers to project the subject property carrying costs along with other expenses and then compare selected properties by their immediate and future financial balances. This software package can be very useful for current homeowners as well in helping the owners to overview their property related expenses, project the costs into a future and define a right financial management strategy for a budget. A good number of additional parameters have been integrated with this program in order to provide a comprehensive comparing and long-term cost analysis of real estate properties and enable the user to project the overall impact of the costs on the homeowner's budget.
The featured software package also contains such constantly needed for saving time and money utilities like Saving and Spending calculator (great tool for retirement planning!), Mortgage and Equity calculator with accelerated mortgage payment options (outstanding utility for choosing a right financing and mortgage payment strategy!), Loan calculator, detail oriented Maintenance, Energy, Transportation cost calculators and more.
This Real Estate Analytical Companion can be at real estate buyer's assistance for a lifetime just for a fraction of the single hour consulting cost, which the home buyer would be paying to a certified professional analyst for finding the best solution out of a complex budget optimization problem with numerous parameters during a process of selecting a right Real Estate property for investment or dwelling.

Repossessed Houses

The economy is not exactly in its best shape recently. The recession started in the United States and we are slowly feeling its toll in United Kingdom. In general, sales plummeted down. Basic necessities such as food, clothing and houses proved to be more expensive that what an average person can afford. This makes it a bad time to buy something big. Buying expensive cars, luxury items and houses may seem ludicrous at this point right?
Wrong. Although prices have hiked up recently, there is a means to get a decent house at a cheaper price. By cheaper, this means 30 to 40% off the usual price that you would have to pay for a new house. How? You can do this by buying repossessed property at auctions.
A repossessed house is a property taken back by the bank or a real estate company because of bad debts. In simpler terms, these are the houses of mortgagees that were not able to pay for amortizations of their housing loans. As a prospective buyer, we might be turned off to acquire the property because of this fact. For some, their conscience may be bugged because it may seem that we are taking advantage of a different person's weakness. Then again, the concept of "taking advantage" may be a bit too harsh. We must bear in mind that before a property is repossessed, several notices and chances are given to the mortgagee. If no action is done on their part, that is the only time when eviction happens.
When a bank repossesses a house, this will be put up in an auction. Public auctions are facilitated by an auctioneer that introduces the property, and sets the initial bidding price. The auction is ofter attended by a group of people who expressed their interest in acquiring the property up for bid. Prospective buyers will bid their price and typically, the person with the highest bid gets to go home as the winner.
However bidding for a house is so much different from bidding for a book, bag or any accessory on line. Since a house is a property with greater value, more care should be put into it. Say for example, one cannot simply rely on catalogs and pictures during the process of acquisition. It is advisable for you to visit the actual property itself for you to check on the condition of the house you want to buy. If you are buying the property to live in it, make sure that it is suitable to be inhabited. Most repossessed houses that have not been maintained for quite some time may need some repair or renovation. When you find that improvements or maintenance works are necessary, calculate the cost. You would not want to buy a "cheaper" house only to find out that you need to spend a lot of money just so you can live in it.
Lastly, if you are not familiar with the whole process, ask a professional real estate agent to walk you through it. buying repossessed property at auctions does not have to be hard and complicated. All you have to do is find someone who can make things easier for you. These private offices usually charge a month's worth of your amortization or rent.