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Curious Cat Investing Library: Real Estate Investing

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Your Home

Home Buying Primer, Smart Money.

Where Is the Housing Market Headed? Talk of the Nation, NPR (includes links to many other online resources), 2006.

Finance Your Home a wide variety of information from the Motley Fool.

Real Estate Radio - online archive of discussions on various real estate topics.

CSW - Real Estate Research. The site includes some free articles and forecasts for real estate prices.

Interest Rates and Mortgages

Curious Cat article: 30 year fixed Mortgage rates are not correlated with federal funds rates by John Hunter.
The Mortgage-Rate Conundrum by June Kim, 2001, SmartMoney. Explores the fact that short term and long term rates do not always move in the same direction.
Nightmare Mortgages on deceptive mortgage practices (2006). A basic rule of investing is to understand the choices you make. If you can't explain the details of how a specific mortgage works it is very risky to choose something other than a standard 30 year mortgage. For sophisticated investors other options can have benefits but as news stories show year after year, many people get in trouble because they don't understand the terms of their loan (mortgages or other).

Investment Real Estate
Many Options For Selling Rental Property by Benny L. Kass, Realty Times, 2003.
How To Set The Right Rent by Clifford A. Hockley, Realty Times, 2001.

Investment Real Estate Market - Rental Market
The Rent-Price Ratio for the Aggregate Stock of Owner-Occupied Housing by Morris A. Davisa, Andreas Lehnertb, and Robert F. Martin, 2007.
Rents Rise as Apartment Market Is Squeezed by Kirstin Downey
Rental Deals Leaving Town - after a couple years of slow rent increases the market is tightening again (vacancy rates decreasing) in DC, June 2004, Washington Post. The vacancy rate in the DC area has been very low for more than 5 years but for a couple years their was some vacancy as large new apartment buildings were put on the market and the economy slowed down.

Insurance
Good overview from the Motley Fool

Web Resources
Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight - data on housing prices, sales, etc.