1. Real estate has been shown to be a good investment, historically. In recent years, many people have lost a lot of money in the real estate market. But, over time, real estate has been shown to be profitable.
2. You need a realtor. A good realtor can help you save money and keep you out of potential legal issues, too. A realtor is well worth their fee, and will usually save you at least the amount of their fee.
3. There are lots of different kinds of loans. Shopping around for your mortgage loan is important. Some loans can require 20% down, for example, while others require as little as 3%. Shopping around can help you get the best deal and help you find the right loan for your particular situation.
4. Know how much you can afford. There are plenty of online calculators that can help you determine how much of a mortgage you’ll qualify for.
5. Understand how your payment works. You may use an online calculator to tell how much your mortgage payment will be. These calculators tell you what you’ll spend each month for the principal and interest of your mortgage payment only. In most cases, your payment will also include mortgage insurance, homeowners insurance and property taxes, too.
6. Understand escrow: Most of the time, your payment includes money that goes into escrow, for later payment of bills like homeowners insurance, property taxes and mortgage insurance. It’s critical that you know what bills are being paid by escrow and what bills you’re responsible for.
7. Your mortgage insurance won’t stop on its own. You are typically required to pay mortgage insurance until you have 20% equity in your home. But, your mortgage company is not going to stop charging you for mortgage insurance automatically when you reach that 20% equity mark. You will need to ask them when you’ve reached the right point.
8. The asking price on a home is negotiable. When you make an offer, you can make one well below the asking price if you choose. In a good housing market, the seller will not be as willing to negotiate on the price as in a down market.
9. You should always have a home inspection. You have the right to have a home inspected after you’ve negotiated an offer with the seller. You should definitely had the home inspection done, and have your contract reflect that you can request repairs or back out of the deal based on the inspection results.
10. You should consider a home warranty. If you’re purchasing a home including appliances like a refrigerator, furnace, etc., a home warranty might be a good idea. It offers you protection if one of these major functions of the home needs repairs. Often times, the seller will pay for it, too.
11. You should get a copy of your credit report before you buy a home. This way you can spot and correct any problems on your report before a lender reviews it.
12. You should make a list of what you want in a home before you begin shopping. Consider listing “must haves” and “wants”. This will help you narrow down your search.
13. Foreclosures can be a great deal. But in a down economy, there will often be offers on the table already for the best deals. It’s usually a good idea to look at foreclosures along with homes that are not in foreclosure.
14. Some mortgages offer fixed interest rates for the term of the loan. Others offer variable rates.
15. You should get a good faith estimate well before closing. Your lender should give you an estimate of the amount required for closing and the amount of each payment ahead of time.
16. Your loan will have an application fee. This fee is usually paid ahead of closing.
17. Sellers pay the realtor fee. When you’re a buyer, you don’t pay a fee to the realtor.
18. Shopping online makes the process easier. Most real estate agencies have websites where you can review pictures and information on homes for sale before you look at them in person.
19. In many cases, first time homebuyers can use some “gifted” money toward a down payment.
20. There are a few 0 down payment mortgages, but fewer than in a good economy.
21. The seller’s agent must work for the best interest of the seller. That’s why you need your own agent as the buyer.
22. Your home has the greatest chance of selling during the first 10 days on the market, especially when there are a lot of homes for sale.

The blogs are listed by year and by month of creation.

2010

1. Big Rapids Real Estate Blog: Randy Ostrander is a real estate broker and owner of Lake and Lodge Realty LLC, serving Big Rapids and West Central Michigan. Randy prides himself on being a full-time Realtor who is available 24/7. No real estate listing is too small or too large to handle (February).
2. Norada Real Estate Investments: Marco Santarelli is an investor, author, and founder of Norada Real Estate Investments, a national real estate investment firm offering turnkey investment property in growth markets nationwide.He also is the creator of DealGrader, a scoring system that measures the investment quality of a real estate investment(February).
3. Harper Law’s Arizona Real Estate Law Blog: This blog is maintained by Harper Law PLC, centrally located in downtown Phoenix, Arizona. A significant portion of Harper Law’s practice is devoted to real estate matters (March).
4. Real Estate & Finance Law: Frank De Vito is a real estate and finance attorney at Rackemann, Sawyer & Brewster in Boston and the Chair of the firm’s Finance, Restructure and Workout Group. His blog is dedicated to providing value to professionals in the real estate and commercial finance industries, providing insight, commentary and analysis about issues that matter to your business (March).
5. Stock Markets Review Real Estate Blog: This blog carries national and international investment property news, from London to Miami and beyond. Look for a variety of marketable property news — urban, rural, condo and landlord property news as well as rulings, law changes, market volatility and much more (March).
6. Daytona Beach Real Estate Law Blog: Jeffrey A. Klein is a Daytona Beach, Florida, real estate attorney who has devoted his career to helping people and families in need. Because much of his real estate law practice is focused on foreclosure defense and alternatives to foreclosure, he has developed knowledge and insight into the foreclosure crisis and what realistic options are available for distressed homeowners (May).
7. Rental & Investment Property Information: Learn about investment properties in your area and find general information investing in rental properties. Note that this blog is not run by real estate professionals, but by a group of marketing individuals who do not offer real estate advice (May).
8. The Real Deal Blog: This blog carries information about Idaho foreclosure deals, investment strategies and market updates. The blog is backed up by a live radio show on Sundays at 11:00 am. You also can watch a video on how to sell a home in 14 days and dream about luxury foreclosures as investments (May).
9. Foreclosure Blog: The Foreclosure.com Blog offers frequent insight and analysis from real estate experts on the latest issues affecting the national foreclosure market. This online resource also provides helpful foreclosure tips and advice to help readers make more informed investment decisions (June).
10. Massachusetts Land Use Monitor: This blog, published by Rackemann, Sawyer & Brewster, P.C., a Boston law firm, provides real-time news and commentary on Massachusetts land use and real estate law. Each week the attorney-authors survey the legal landscape for court decisions and other developments in Massachusetts land use and real estate law, legislation and policy, and report on them here (June).
11. Scott Bohn’s Real Estate Blog: Scott started this real estate blog so you could find real estate news, stats, helpful tools, financial information and much more information in and around the Chicago area. Scott is connected with D’Aprile Realty, a company that focuses on the West Loop, Roscoe Village, River North, Gold Coast and Wicker Park neighborhoods (June).
12. Deals of Philly: Philadelphia for sale by owner. Nahab Properties, LLC’s goal in the Philadelphia Area is to “Fight the Blight, One House at a Time.” (August).
13. Summa Real Estate Blog: Summa Real Estate Group is a coop of business owner brokers who have a business owner to business owner mentality. Despite this partnership among their brokers, their blog reflects a community feel as they share business developments, news, social networking tips and more (August).
14. Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Real Estate Law Blog: Rowe Law Firm, located in Baton Rouge, handles all matters related to commercial and residential real estate transactions, from the negotiation of terms through the closing (September).
15. Mark Gedymin’s San Francisco Bay Commercial Real Estate Blog: This is a commercial real estate blog that offers insights to everything under the sun pertaining to commercial real estate in San Francisco. Since 2003, Mark has completed nearly 200 transactions in San Francisco and San Mateo Counties (October).
16. The Texas Real Estate Law Blog: R. Tyler Johnson at Brown McCarroll, Attorneys at Law, started this blog to address key business points that buyers and investors should understand in various acquisition and disposition agreements, leases, subleases, design contracts, loan documents and other agreements (October).
17. Florida Real Estate Attorney: Michael J Posner, Esquire, is a Board Certified Real Estate Attorney with 25 years of residential and commercial real-estate experience. He is a partner in Ward Damon a mid-sized real estate and business oriented law firm serving all of South Florida, with three offices in Palm Beach County (November).
18. Live In Weston Wellesley MA: Traci Shulkin, a Realtor with Benoit Mizner Simon & Co., launched a hyper-local real estate blog connected to HubConnected LLC. This blog is dedicated to life in the Massachusetts towns of Weston and Wellesley (November).
19. Real Estate Investors Club of Los Angeles — Phyllis’ Blog: Phyllis Rockower first started in real estate in 80′s in New York, buying her first fixer upper in 1979 for 82k and selling it 7 years later for 435k. Then she started the Real Estate Investor’s Club of Los Angeles (LAREIC) in 1996. Last year, she began writing the blog that represents this investment endeavor (November).
20. @ C21 Home Matters: Following the the footsteps of other real estate companies such as Coldwell Banker, Century 21 Real Estate launched their blog on Monday, February 14th, 2011, but the earliest posts date back to mid-December (December).
21. NAI Halsey Blog: As principal of the region’s largest commercial real estate firm and a member of NAI’s Global Network, Jerry Halsey, Jr. has a strong perspective on the market and how to help investors best understand how to make it work for them (December).
22. Sustainable Real Estate Solutions: SRS uses this blog to share information and generate discussion on current opportunities and solutions impacting commercial and public building stakeholders related to the assessment, benchmarking and optimization of energy and sustainability performance (December).

2011

23. Living in Bedford, MA, 01730: Sheena Santos and Debbie Spencer launched this blog on January 21st to promote all things related to Bedford, including the town’s neighborhoods, its people, the schools, the restaurants, shops, stores, recreation activities, special events and “other to do’s.” Bedford was recently named one of the nation’s top 100 Best Communities for Young Families (January).
24. Tony Tyrrell Omaha Real Estate: Tony Tyrrell serves the entire Omaha Nebraska real estate market including the surrounding communities such as La Vista, Papillion, Bellevue, Council Bluffs, Carter Lake, and Elkhorn. He showcases his blog through video (January).
25. Woodstock Real Estate: This blog is so new that there was only one post when we spotted the site. High Ground Realty represents Woodstock NY real estate (February).

1. Real Estate Finance and Investment: This class from MIT is a must for anyone investing in real estate. It will help you make the right decisions for buying and selling property.

2. Law for the Entrepreneur and Manager: This basic law class from MIT will help you understand the business terminology you need to for closing real estate transactions.
3. Economic Analysis for Business Decisions: Use the economic information you’ll learn in this class to help you use economic indicators to make your real estate decisions.
4. Real Estate Economics: This MIT class will help you learn the particular economic issues associated with buying and selling real estate.
5. Real Estate Capital Markets: This course from MIT covers the primary capital markets in Real Estate.
6. Advanced Topics in Real Estate Finance: Learn about cutting edge topics in real estate finance and investments.
7. New Century Cities: Real Estate, Digital Technology and Design: Take a look at extraordinary projects that challenge conventional approaches to real estate development, urban design, and advanced digital technology.
8. E-Commerce and the Internet in Real Estate and Construction: This course from MIT examines the long term effects of information technology on business strategy in the real estate and construction industry.
9. Strategic Management in the Design and Construction Value Chain: This course provides an overview of key concepts in strategic management in the construction, real estate, and architecture industries.
10. Media Technology and City Design and Development:
    This class teaches digital design as used in real estate and architecture.

11. Capital Markets: This class from University of California Irvine provides a great overview of the capital markets.
12. Fundamentals of Personal Financial Planning: This course is designed to help with overall financial plan. Having an overall personal financial plan is very important before you begin investing in real estate.
13. 3 Days to Understanding Investor Mortgage Loans: This 3 day class will help you understand the loans available to you as a real estate investor.
14. Success Math for Real Estate Investors: Use this simple seven day course to help you know all the math you need to understand your real estate investments.
15. The HUD 1 Basics: This five day real estate course will help you understand the HUD 1 form.
16. Real Estate’s Role in Your Portfolio: This class from Morningstar covers the place of real estate in an investor’s overall portfolio.
17. Risk and Diversification: This course from Investopedia covers diversification in your portfolio, including real estate.
18. Exploring Real Estate: This course from Investopedia covers real estate from an investment point of view.
19. Mortgage Basics: Learn all you need to know about various types of mortgages for your real estate investments.
20. Investing 100: This class is great for learning how to invest your money in real estate and in other ways.

With these classes you’re sure to improve your overall investment knowledge and make better financial decisions about investing your money and making a great return. You’re also sure to find great knowledge about investing in real estate in particular.

Real estate investing has, historically, been one of the safest investments. Now is a good time to buy, since prices are low. Investing at these low prices means you have a good chance of seeing good growth on your investments in the future. Check out these classes so that you can make the right decisions in real estate investing. They offer great tips on understanding the market and making the most of your money.

1. Do not need to invest your money in real estate: Yes investing in real estate yet requires ample amount of money but do not invest entire of your money in home and investment.  You can fund for that money from partners, parents, friends, extended family, retirement saving and other private money sources. And every deal of real estate at the end of the day needs some money to buy property.
2. Go under corporation for having property without risk: You would not be able to buy a property freely unless you would not have guidance from a corporation for purchasing it. A corporation makes your purchase of property and goods risk free.
3. Always remember about cash flow: When you are buying a property always remember about your set goals about that property. If you are buying a property for what you are paying $500 month from pocket that can have high quality tenant and low at maintenance is worth investment far better than a property that though cut down low from your pocket yet is far consumes ample time and money every month on maintenance is hardly worth procuring.
4. Do not procure Ugly house on a Good Street: There is a misconception that buying a not good looking house in good location can fetch money and wealth, that is absolutely wrong and fetch misconception. In case you have a good contractor and smart money than you can turn that house to be of use in comparable in cost with other houses. Otherwise it always remain lower is cost with others as well.
5. Do not consider all real estate as Good Investment: It is always said about real estate investments that they are always good. But buying a property over super inflated rate is never being a good idea.  As it would make long time for you to make out investment from that over a longer period of time. And if the market goes down you would be in a riskiest situation as respect to your purchase of property.
6. Learn about the right opportunity in the market: It is the golden rule in real estate market that you should know better learn about the situation in the market and later on invest according to the prevailing market conditions. But some expert are totally of different opinion for procurement in real estate market as say it as better as soon one procures the property as better it would be for them it for the growth of their wealth.
7. Real Estate investment is Simple: Contrary to popular beliefs real estate investment is not as simpler and straight as it appears to be. There are certain basic principles that should be followed in order to make real estate a better choice and business opportunity. You need to have a proper market research in order to have investment over there.

1. Introduction to structural design:  This courseware precisely is for architecture graduates with objective of developing basic concept in mathematics and physics for visual study of architectures for informed observation and to control structure in design to architectural intent. Primary resource for this learning is web images available around the globe.
2. Advanced Topics in real state finance: The courseware introduces the some of the best topics and surveys in the field of real estate finance and investments. The course ware is provided into the extent of informal seminar to a maximum possible degree so a student could take a measurable initiative.
3. Physics in Architecture:  The courseware developed by Dr John Whittle includes brief interactive notes on eight areas of physics that are some how are related to architecture. However, topics as discussed over here are Units of measurement, scalar and vector quantities, Newton’s laws, mass and weight, action and reaction, waves, heat , work, energy and light.
4. Architectural Design: Under this courseware students are introduced with main elements of architectural forms and their use in creating principles.  After completing this courseware a student would be in position to handle small size design problems with an appropriate skill.
5. Seminars in Building Technology: This courseware, significantly, is about energy efficiency in buildings with a practical approach towards use of energy in society. It tells under its courseware about common methods for building energy analysis. A student under courseware learns through reading, analysis,    and discussions.
6. Sustainability in the Built Environment: This courseware is about the sustainability of the building environment in every context. This courseware emphasizes on built world’s connection with environmental issues, examination the principles and tools for sustainable architecture with focus on reducing environmental issues.
7. Byzantine Art History: This courseware about Byzantine art history is the symbol of Byzantine culture as represented Constantinople, icons, life of the palace, domed churches, and the legacy of Byzantium. The courseware has pictures from the internet and ASU library.

This online Masters in Real estate degree mainly focuses on the vital aspects that will help a real estate individual as it focuses on contract management, customer relationship management and project management. These are the core things in this industry and if you’re able to grasp everything the better for you. You must understand clearly and after that you’ll be able to lead a sales team, operate your own real estate and in the end move to a senior management position which is everyone’s dream. In general you’ll learn the techniques, knowledge and vital principles that will make you succeed with great ease.

Another online Masters in real estate is the Master of Business Administration that helps one stay ahead in today’s volatile market which demands expertise. The content coverage and structure is clearly outlined. The program covers the foundation of real estate industry coupled with the required skills to create a career out of real estate. After this program a student will be able to develop key strategies and make appropriate decisions that have seen many individuals failing because of lack of the appropriate knowledge acquired in this degree program. The topics are specialized coursework touching on law, investment analysis and transaction analysis. Very vital aspects on real estate that have seen numerous polishing done on these aspects to offer ease whilst reading through. Amendment is also required as things in the world keep changing, so the contents also need to be changed; it’s a constantly evolving course program.

The Master of Business Administration develops one’s real estate knowledge while in the process the individual learns how to do research, implement and communicate through to the actual deal. Individuals have built their core business foundation and have gained expertise required in advancing their real estate career considerably.