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Top Online Resources for The Real Estate and Land Industry

We like to share our favorite things, so today we’re sharing our favorite blogs and websites for some of the best real estate resources around. They range from land and housing market news, to homebuilding industry insights, to mortgage trends, to technology tips and news. There certainly are more academically-oriented sites out there, and those that are backed by industry associations, but we feel like this list of accessible real estate resources can be helpful for keeping you up-to-speed on some of the latest real estate, homebuilding, lot and land industry news and trends. Without further ado, here are LotNetwork.com’s top…

Build a Home with the Help of a Smartphone and these 8 Apps

Build a home with your Smartphone? Well, not exactly, but you can find some useful resources in Smartphone Apps that can help you in the home planning and construction process. This article describes a few Apps that we have found that are great for homeowners or home buyers. But here’s a tip…these Apps can be useful for the pros out there too, like all of you real estate agents and homebuilders who work with these potential homeowners and buyers. Your clients and customers will be impressed when you use technology to find an answer for them, or if you just…

List Now & Sell Your Property with these 3 New Year’s Resolutions

If you want to sell a property, the first thing you must do is actively and aggressively market it. To find the right buyer, you have to have the right exposure. But it’s amazing how many people don’t properly market their properties or simply fail to list them at all. Whether you are a real estate agent, a homebuilder or an unwilling property owner, you are missing out if you have not recently reviewed your marketing efforts and created a targeted online listing to sell your lot, land or other property to the right type of buyer. It’s not too…

Online Listings to Sell Land or Lots: Five Tips to Help Spur a Successful Sale

Did you know that 90% of real estate buyers are now searching online for properties? Clearly, online listings should be a critical part of your strategy when you want to sell lots and land. And when an online listing is the first impression (and possibly only) that greets potential lot and land buyers, an engaging listing can be the difference between a property that languishes and a property that moves. Here are our top tips to help you successfully sell land or lots online by creating an effective property listing. Photos. Creative, Strategic, Smart Photos. You’ve heard it, you know it: photos…

Research Title & Restrictions: Tip #7 for Buying Residential Lots and Land

In our last post on the 8 Tips for Buying Residential Lots & Land for a New Home we discussed roads and access, including easements that may benefit your land. Now we will shift our focus to title restrictions and other restrictions that may burden your land. Before buying a lot, you always should review the lot’s title and get owner’s title insurance. Reviewing “title” for a property typically includes an in-depth study of the parcel’s history through land records, maps, liens, legal documents and other facts on the public record that may affect a property. This may sound boring,…

Lots and Land Development: How do you know when the Market is Ready?

Land development tends to be one of the riskiest roles in the housing industry, so for land developers it is important to know that the market is ready for a new project to avoid taking on excessive risk. What are the tools or metrics that land developers can use to analyze housing markets and help them evaluate whether the market is ready for developing land into lots for new home projects? Risks of Land Development Land developers are at the front-end of new home construction. Land developers typically borrow and advance the funds that are needed for them to pay for…

Home Builder Loan Market…Not So Terrible?

Whether it’s houses, land or lots for sale, too many in the real estate industry have seen deals fall apart because of the tight lending market over the past few years. Words to describe the lending market in recent years might include: “terrible”, “non-existent” or “impossible”…making a report of “neutral” something to celebrate. The NAHB recently issued its “Survey on Acquisition, Development & Construction Financing” for the second quarter of 2012, which describes homebuilders’ and developers’ current experiences with the availability of loans for land acquisition, land development and home construction. What can we glean from the survey? Our key…

Roads & Access: Tip #6 For Buying Lots and Land

Our journey through the 8 Tips for Buying Residential Lots and Land for a New Home continues with a look at the important Technical Due Diligence topic of roads and access. Access: Don’t Get Landlocked Landlocked. It’s a real estate term that describes land completely surrounded by property owned by other parties, impacting the owner’s ability to freely access the land. This Tip can help you better understand access issues so that you can avoid buying property that is landlocked – or otherwise has inadequate access rights – in the first place. Typically, lots for sale in newer residential communities…