by Melanie Waddell NASAA recently released its list of the top scams con artists use to trap unwary, or merely desperate, investors during these volatile economic times Advisors and investors beware: Even though Bernie Madoff is gone, economic uncertainty and volatile stock markets still breed con artists itching to trap the unwary or merely desperate. [...]

Sorry, real estate investor, the Internal Revenue Service is coming to get you, and it won’t be pretty. The IRS is stepping up property scrutiny as a result of a 2008 Government Accountability Office finding: “At least 53% of individual taxpayers with rental real estate activity for Tax Year 2001 misreported their rental real estate [...]

April 1, 2010 by Bob Veres Economic forecasters sometimes describe the investment markets as a leading indicator, which means that they believe returns can anticipate good or bad economic news.  Share prices fall when investors expect a recession, and rise when a recovery is expected–and last year’s stock market growth seems to fit that pattern.  [...]

It is all a product of greed…the current economic crisis, I mean. But whose greed? The lenders? The creators of mortgage backed securities? The home purchasers who were unable to meet their obligations when their adjustable mortgage payment schedules reset? Yes. All of them, and a few more. Families who borrowed money to buy homes [...]

Facing a rising tide of home foreclosures, the Obama Administration is pushing mortgage servicing companies to more than double the industry’s mortgage modifications by Nov. 1. After a day long meeting with 25 servicers at the Treasury Department, the Administration for the first time announced a specific goal for modifications by the industry under the [...]

The 1.6% increase was the largest one-month gain since July 2005 Residential real estate prices gained 1.6% in May, representing the largest one-month increase since July 2005, according to an analysis by Integrated Asset Services in Denver. For the rest of the story… Real estate prices posted gain in May – Investment News Posted using [...]