Urban Real Estates

Your guide to urban real estate development

Archive for 2008/05


Investing in Real Estate: Buying Large Lands

This type of investment involves buying a large vacant land or lot, dividing it into portions and selling them separately. The key in this investment is making the sum of the divided lands higher than the original cost the buyer bought the whole. In larger scales, this applies to owners of subdivisions, compounds, and the [...]

Investing in Real Estate: Rent-to-Own House

This type of real estate investment is much like the house rental, but the tenant would eventually earn the ownership of the property. In order for the tenant to own the property, he would have to complete a certain duration of renting the house, or another way is to reach a certain amount of total [...]

Investing in Real Estate: House Rental

As there are different types of real estate, there are also corresponding ways of investing in them, each having its own advantage and disadvantage. One way of investment is by having a house rented. In this case, an investor would buy a house, or a lot and have a house built, then have it rented. [...]

Major Types of Real Estate: Commercial Property

A commercial property also has a wide variety of structures, from a vacant land to a high-rise building. Any kind of land or structure could be classified under this type as long as it is used for commercial purposes. The value of commercial property is usually higher involving a complex method, as it considers the [...]

Major Types of Real Estate: Residential Property

So far, residential type of property has been the most popular among types of real estate. This type has also been the most popular for real estate agents, both the more experienced and new ones. The US Census shows that more than 105 million house units have been occupied since year 2000. Under the type [...]

Major Types of Real Estate: Vacant Land

Vacant lands have long been used successfully by ranch and farm owners in their own kinds of businesses. As they are called, these vacant lands usually don’t have big buildings, except for the small ones needed for different purposes. The size of the property is generally large, and the price could go as high as [...]

Suburban

Suburban areas are usually defined as the residential areas found along the borders or outskirts of a large town or a city. Suburbs most commonly are less dense in population than the inner part of the city. Living in suburbs is simpler than living in the urban areas. These suburban areas are quite literally sub-urban, [...]

Urbanization

Urbanization is a process wherein a rural area or town is developed from its rural characteristics into a more modern type of living. Usually, technology and civilization are associated with this kind of development. The 20th century is said to be the “Urban Millennium” due do the very rapid urbanization of the entire population of [...]

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