Black Enterprise.com: With the tremendous gains that housing and land values have had over the last several years, many investors want to jump into the game of owning real estate. But news of the market going soft and lack of experience has others nervous. Not R. Donahue Peebles, who recently completed The Bath Club condominiums in Miami Beach, a $225 million project.

Star Tribune:  Some bought homes as often as others buy new jeans, occasionally in return for thousands of dollars in kickbacks. These investors ranged from small-town working people looking for a quick payday to sophisticated real estate professionals who bet with other people’s money, occasionally defrauding lenders in the process.

A growing number of investors say the region offers some of the greatest opportunities for hotel investment, in particular, due to rapid growth in the region and high hotel prices…

Landlords seeking bargain investment properties the market is looking up…

Can’t sell your home? Consider renting it out…

As tax breaks go, it’s a hard one to pass up: The so-called 1031 exchange enables people to avoid capital gains taxes when they sell real estate or personal property…

“If you’re an investor, this is the best real estate foreclosure market in 13 years,”...

Market for exchanges grew to $4 billion in 2007, from $200 million in 2001…

During the heyday of continually rising real estate values, “flipping” — buying a property and then reselling it at a higher price — was all the rage.

They were not real estate moguls looking to transform apartment complexes and boot out renters, but individuals who typically bought into property through a tenancy-in-common (TIC), in which several people agree to purchase a building together and live in separate units…

Despite the doom-and-gloom headlines about what’s happening in other real estate markets, the local market offers good opportunities for first-time and move-up buyers…