Archive for February, 2010Cirios Trends — February 2010In this month’s Cirios Trends: In Search of Real Estate Opportunities, check out: The State of the Markets: February 2, 2010 A critical crossroads has arrived. Feature: Real Estate Investing with Your IRA Diversify your nest egg. Around the Bay: Local News Bites Goings on that move markets. Zip Code Spotlight – South San Francisco [...] The State of the Markets — February 2, 2010This post first appeared in the February edition of: Cirios Trends: In Search of Real Estate Opportunities. If someone were to wake up from a 5-year coma and ask about the state of our country’s economy, the chart below pretty much sums it up. The past five years in the housing market, the financial market [...] Feature: Real Estate Investing with Your IRAThis post first appeared in the February edition of: Cirios Trends: In Search of Real Estate Opportunities. At cocktail parties and around the water cooler, the familiar refrain that “now is a great time to buy,” is piquing the interest of even the most casual real estate investor. For many, however, taking advantage of “distressed” [...] Zip Code Spotlight – South San Francisco (94080)This post first appeared in the February edition of: Cirios Trends: In Search of Real Estate Opportunities. This month, the zip code spotlight returns to South San Francisco (94080), the “Industrial City.” While its hillside moniker makes South City sound like a place no one would ever want to live, the opposite is true. In [...] Around the Bay: Local News BitesThis post first appeared in the February edition of: Cirios Trends: In Search of Real Estate Opportunities. CalPERS Licks Wounds, Eyes Real Estate Investments (San Francisco Business Times) CalPERS, California’s public workers’ pension fund, isn’t sitting idly by to licks its wounds. Fresh after confirmation that it would lose $500 million on a botched deal [...] Cirios Opportunities: Sweet Salvation in South CityThis post first appeared in the February edition of: Cirios Trends: In Search of Real Estate Opportunities. Opportunity Overview: Of the many profitable real estate investment opportunities available in the Bay Area, one which has recently received attention in the media is buying foreclosed homes directly at the public auctions held on the courthouse steps. [...] Talking Charts — Local Market AnalysisThis post first appeared in the February edition of: Cirios Trends: In Search of Real Estate Opportunities. It’s been our long-held view that the housing recovery would be a prolonged, localized event. That is, even while pundits are out there hailing that the bottom is in, or that it’s a great time to buy, we [...] |