Real Estate Investing Timing

At its heart, real estate investing is quite simple, you want to buy when prices are cheap and hold until prices are high and then cash out. You can make a whole lot of money with this very simple premise. The trick of course is in knowing when to buy and when to sell. That is what real estate timing is all about.

There are a lot of people say that there is no way to know when a market is near its bottom and poised to go back up and there is no way to know when a market is near its peak and ready to go down. Most people just listen to the mass media and if they see that everyone else is buying they buy too and if everyone else is selling then they sell. The problem with this approach is that the mass media and everyone else doesn't know when you should be buying and selling! You see most people follow the herd mentality, they act once they see everyone else acting. The mass media really does nothing more than report on everyone's actions. If everyone is buying than the mass media talks about how great the market is and says you should be buying. Then when a market is crashing and everyone is selling the mass media says you better sell before prices go down more. But is this approach going to make you any money? NO! If you buy when everyone else is buying then you've missed all the appreciation. And if you sell when everyone else is selling then you'll be watching prices drop as you are trying to unload your investment.

That approach just doesn't work. As real estate investors we need a better solution to real estate timing. We need to know when to buy, just as a market is about to go up so we can capture the most appreciation. We need to know when to sell, before a market reaches its peak, so we can take our profit and get out before the market turns down. There is a way to do just that, it's called market indicators. If we look at certain real estate market indicators and calculate a market's momentum we can actually see whether it's time to buy or sell in any real estate market. Market momentum is an extremely powerful tool in real estate timing.

And it works!

We've analyzed over 200 real estate markets and used historical data going back as far as 15 years and when the market momentum says buy we see home values going up shortly after. When the market momentum says sell home values level out or go down. The numbers don't lie! This is the kind of invaluable tool a real estate investor needs, it tells us when to buy and when to sell and it has been proven based on years of historical data to make money. You can literally make tens of thousands of dollars more per property just by knowing the right time to buy and the right time to sell.