Timing the Real Estate Market: How to Buy Low and Sell High in Real Estate

by Craig Hall

Book Overview

Shows how to maximize profits, including: the seven major trends affecting real estate prices; how to predict when real estate prices are poised to increase; how to capture maximum profits by knowing... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0071421955
• ISBN13: 9780071421959
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Thanks for the insight

I liked this book mostly because of its realistic philosophies. This topic is especially filled with the get rich quick accounts of quick flips, short sales and unrealistic dreamy profits. It is nice to see how proper timing, smart finance and guts get it done. Especially market timing is an excellent insight. This book feels like the author just wants to give back a little insight that he learned over the years, not just sell countless titles and suck people into seminars. Another note. The friend of mine that recommended it to me liked it so much that he went to CA to visit the vineyards. He said the wine was pretty good! That same friend bought 30 + houses right before the great run-up of 2005. I guess he learned something! Thanks Craig for the insight!

Forget location, location, location. It's all about timing.

After reading Craig Hall's excellent book, the most important thing that I learned is this ... You can be a market contrarian - and try to buy real estate at the absolute low point in the market cycle - or you can be a momentum investor - and buy after prices have started to rise off the depressed market bottom. This is excellent strategic thinking. There is no better, safer, and more profitable way to buy any investment asset than to buy into a market where blood is deep in the street. Good book. I recommend it. Robert Campbell Author of "Timing the Real Estate Market"

Timing the Real Estate Market

Even after many years in the business, I found Craig Hall's book Timing the Real Estate Market to be full of useful and valuable industry insight. Obviously real estate, as well as other investment vehicles, is all about timing: evaluating local trends and identifying the stages of each cycle. Anyone, from the most experienced to the novice, can refresh and learn more about the unique real estate trading arena. Craig Hall's years of experience have paid off, and the advice and real life examples from both his successes and challenges can be helpful to anyone seeking knowledge on real estate timing.

The best real estate book I have ever read

In Timing The Real Estate Market author Craig Hall makes the complicated process of buying low and selling high remarkably understandable. While no one can buy at the exact bottom and sell at the exact top, using Hall's tips will enable you to confidently buy low and sell high most of the time.Timing The Real Estate Market is very different from other real estate investing books. Most real estate investing books only tell you what to buy and how to buy it. Hall's book is the first to tell investors when to buy and when to sell. Other real estate investing books say the only way to go is buy and hold till you die. Hall's book shows that conventional wisdom is wrong and that investors are often much better off buying in order to sell.There are many real estate moguls that know what Hall knows. But Hall is the only mogul who is generous enough to share these insider tips with the masses.

Essential reading!

Extremely valuable information for any real estate investor who wants an inside look at how a pro plays the game.