Evaluating an Investment Opportunity?

Evaluating an Investment Opportunity?

This is another one of those questions that many investors have a difficult time answering.  When asked how they arrive at an investment value, many are unsure of how to do that.  Some have a” sense” based on years of investing, some will say cap rate, others have their own formula. Investing in real estate [...]

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What Are The Risks?

What Are The Risks?

Like all real estate and alternative investments, significant risks are associated with investing.  In particular, direct investments are subject to market risk and liquidity risk.  Political and economic changes can drive down the demand for your investment.  Changes in tax laws could reduce or eliminate the favorable tax treatment of your investment property.  Should you [...]

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Out With The Old, In With The New

The golden rule of investing has always been “don’t put all of your eggs in one basket”.  Following that golden rule has always been pretty simple!  In doing so, your portfolio would look something like this:  stocks, bonds, and cash.  If you had a management firm working for you then maybe you would even have it [...]

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As The World Turns

Despite all the bleak economic news I’m reading and hearing about over the last few months, as I travel around from new development projects to ones that were abandoned and left looking like an old ghost town from the gold mining days of the past, a funny thing has been happening in the financial industry over the last [...]

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Investing in the American market: perspectives and opportunities Interview with Sydney Chase Sr, CEO at Syd Chase Group

Syd Chase Group was published in International Alternative Investment Review. To read this article please go to http://www.iaireview.org/2011/07/investing-in-the-american-market-perspectives-and-opportunities-interview-with-sydney-chase-sr-ceo-at-syd-chase-group/

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Why Invest in Rochester, NY???

Well, for starters, Rochester has been a busy little bee attracting More than $115 Million in New Capital Investments from the likes of several great stable companies such as, General Motors, General Electric, Natcore Technology, and Alpina Foods just to name a few, those who  have recently announced expansion projects in the Greater Rochester, NY Region. [...]

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America’s new apple PIE

As American filmmakers dominate the lineup of this year’s Venice Film Festival, where George Clooney and four others will be competing for the Golden Lion.  While Madonna, Al Pacino and Steven Soderbergh will premiere their latest directorial efforts.  Others are out investing in films like Pinewood Shepperton who is targeting films with production budgets of around [...]

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Woman are just too SMART

The US. real estate market has had more ups and downs and side way motions than the Superman roller coaster ride at my local theme park. This ride  has occupied a huge amount of the world’s attention in recent years. While most of the news has been bad (record foreclosures, bad loans, appraisals too high it goes [...]

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Commercial Real Estate Trends

I own in my stock portfolio, a Reit that specializes in office, mixed-use and industrial properties. I noticed it has gone up, a lot, in the last few months. (It pays a nice dividend), so this has lead me to look deeper into what is happening with the Reits. As I take a look around at the real estate investment [...]

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