Real estate is a hard asset and hard assets do well in inflationary periods. And we have been in highly inflationary periods for decades. We may not report it, we may understate it, but it is as real as paying the $1.45 a litre for gas.Friday, June 06, 2008

Inflation revisited and more reader questions.Thursday, June 19, 2008

The key in any market - good or bad - is to get your property placed into the 72 per cent which sell now. There is no good nor bad market, only a good or bad deal you personally make.Thursday, July 03, 2008

The start of 2007 is a good time to reflect back on your finances in 2006. Did you have a real estate action plan to create passive income in the future through owning rental property? Did you achieve it? If not, why not?

Real estate markets are primarily local in nature. Thus, if one looks at measurable statistics, mixes in some historical performance - one should be able to come up with a fairly accurate forecast. Factors like affordability, interest rates, inward migration, demand and supply determine, or are likely to affect, market values. The intangible - locally - is of course confidence ... but even that is measurable to some extent. The problem right now is that we are not in a normal real estate market.

First it was the Big Mac index, then the Costco index, now it is clearly the Wal-Mart index when it comes to identifying up-and-coming communities.

Ozzie Jurock offers advice for savvy investing in the U.S. property market

What to do during times of uncertainty? Ozzie Jurock has some advice and looks at B.C. areas that offer value and prices that still make sense.

Most people must rely on professionals.

A lengthy forestry strike, shut downs at
major pulp mills and an expected slowdown
in Alberta and other offshore buyers may open
a window of opportunity for real
estate investments on Vancouver Island over
the next three or four months.