Category: Real Estate
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Time to Get Out of New York Real Estate?
The New York Supreme Court, in the person of Judge Arthur Engoron, has caused an earthquake in the New York real estate market. Investors don’t like risk, and they particularly don’t like political risk. To a great many observers, the trial which resulted in Engoron’s ruling, a trial which some…
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Why Doesn’t Your Client Act? 4 Factors to Guide Financial Decision-Making
Advisors can spend hours explaining a great solution to their clients, only to have those clients not act on the solution. There’s no magic bullet. But sometimes clients appreciate it when their advisor helps them identify what’s making the decision hard. What makes a decision difficult? Decision analysts have found…
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Are Your Clients Choosing to Pay $2.5 Million in Unnecessary Taxes?
Every week, we meet with advisors who have a client who is choosing to pay two and a half million in taxes that could be permanently and legally avoided. Before you say that none of your clients would ever make such a choice, you might want to see why we…
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Advisors Gain Assets Easily and Stand Out from the Competition
Many financial advisors work hard to grow, or to stand out in a crowded marketplace. A select few are discovering how to grow more easily, and stand out from the competition, by implementing a “blue ocean” strategy. Blue Ocean Strategy is the name of one of the most famous articles…
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Too Much Risk in US Farmland?
Investor money is pouring into US farmland.[1] That flood of investor money is helping to push farmland prices to record-high levels, and farmland investment yields (as opposed to crop yields) are being pushed to record low levels. For people who have owned farmland for a long time, these factors mean…
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Recession Warning: Does Falling M2 Signal A Recession?
The M2 money supply rose at an unprecedented pace in the two years following the covid pandemic. In the last year, that same M2 money supply has fallen at a rate not seen since the 1930s. In this post, we explain why the rise and subsequent fall in M2 makes…
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What Can You Do With Real Estate Trapped in a C-Corp?
If you have clients who own real estate in a C-corporation, you probably already know some of the difficulties that stand in the way of clients getting their hands on “their” money (i.e. the assets inside the C-corporation). Consider a case we’re currently working on. (The names are changed to…
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Time To Sell Commercial Real Estate?
Commercial real estate, as an asset class, is very sensitive to the availability, and pricing, of loans. The graph below shows the history – the black line – of the prices of US commercial real estate going back almost 30 years. Also on the graph are loan demand – blue – and…
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Breaking: Home Prices Have Peaked
Home prices are trending downwards in English-speaking countries like Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the US. This decline could present an opportunity for property owners to avoid hefty taxes through Sec. 664 Real Estate Shelter Trusts. The trust allows for tax-free property sales, with profits reinvested into trust assets.