American Sales:

The Martha Patterson started selling real estate in the 1990s and replaced her car every five or six years until the housing market collapsed in she kept her Volkswagen Passat GLS for a decade, until last June in just kept holding onto my car," said Patterson of the Wilmington, Delaware, recalling how her annual commissioned sales plunged to $1 million from $5 million.

I wanted a new one it is a really hard to get a decent deal when you're not making steady income to a millions of consumers like Patterson in traded her 2001 model for a new Chevrolet Malibu, deferred purchases to replace older vehicles in the average age of U.S. cars and trucks rising to a record 10.8 years, according to R.L. Polk & Co., analysts see pent-up demand boosting sales in January and driving demand to a 3rd straight annual gain, the longest streak since U.S. sales peaked in 2000.

A Light-vehicle sales in January, set for release tomorrow, may have run at a 13.4 million seasonally adjusted annual rate in the average estimate of 14 of a analysts surveyed by Bloomberg in pace probably accelerated from 12.7 million a year earlier in automakers spending on incentives stayed steady or slid from a year earlier according to analysts at JPMorgan Chase & Co., RBC Capital Markets LLC and Barclays Capital.

Century 21 Real Estate LLC

The Century 21 Real Estate LLC, the franchisor of the world's largest real estate sales organization, today released three teasers from its upcoming Super Bowl television commercial starring an impressive array of celebrity talent as they participate in the home-buying and selling process in a rallying cry of the SMARTER. BOLDER. FASTER.(SM),' the ad matches a typical and unflappable CENTURY 21(R) Agent in clever scenarios with well-known celebrity icons Donald Trump, professional Football Hall of Famer and NFL analyst Deion Sanders, and world-renowned short-track speedskater Apolo Ohno.

All three individuals are featured in a 30-second spot that will air on NBC during the 3rd quarter of Super Bowl XLVI, which will take place on February 5, 2012 to Our agents are the very heart of our business it was important for us to create an ad that celebrates their capabilities," said Bev Thorne, chief marketing officer, Century 21 Real Estate LLC to super Bowl is the last great campfire for the American family in most consumers to centered in the home and the home is the center of the services we're in business to support.

In the leading up to the game, CENTURY 21 will host its teasers, behind-the-scenes footage and the final Super Bowl commercial on its website, century21.com/superbowl, as well as on a customized Facebook application and upgraded YouTube brand channel in addition to the third quarter advertisement, CENTURY 21 Real Estate is a broadcast sponsor of the 3:30 p.m to 4:00 p.m block in the pre-game show on NBC and will have more than a dozen other pregame commercial spots.

American Capital Agency

Not all dividends are created equal to we'll do a top-to-bottom analysis of a given company to understand the quality of its dividend and how that's changed over the past five years inthe company we're looking at today is American Capital Agency (NAS: AGNC) to yields 19.1% for the most real estate companies including in American Capital Agency are organized as real estate investment trusts, or REITs.

They do this so that they can get around the double taxation issue that most investors face in REITs do not pay taxes as long as they distribute at least 90% of their income as dividends to the investors holding shares of the REIT then have to pay taxes on those dividends as though they are income is a differs from most dividend are taxed at a lower rate.

The American Capital Agency's interest rate spread, declining is still very high and will likely remain so until interest rates begin rising again to the Federal Reserve has stated it won't raise rates until 2014 at the earliest, you have some time before this will happen.

President Barack Obama spoke Commercial Real Estate

The State of the Union Address, President Obama spoke of a significant loss of confidence in the federal government's ability to create meaningful policy to this lack of confidence has permeated into commercial real estate markets across the country in the President also outlined policy initiatives that he believes will restore both confidence in the government while jumpstarting the American economy.

This vision of a leaner government to may help restore confidence in CRE markets as well and the President's State of the Union address highlighted trends toward a robust industrial America as he seeks to convince voters that his administration can facilitate domestic job growth have a building off of his speech in Kansas last month.

A President alluded to each of the four pillars of his Blueprint for an America built to last:

1) American manufacturing

2) American energy production

3) The skilled American working class

4) American values (i.e. rewarding hardwork)

These trends, among others mentioned in the speech, could usher in a new wave of policy initiatives that will benefit both industrial and office markets across the country.

Best of Funds in Top 5 Real Estate Mutual Funds

Fidelity Real Estate Investment (FRESX): A invests the majority of its assets in real estate companies or other investments related to the sector in the fund is non-diversified and invests in both domestic and foreign securities to the real-estate mutual fund returned 8.29% over the last one year period.

American Century Real Estate (REACX): The seeks a high level of total return to fund invests heavily in equity securities of real estate investment trusts and companies from the real estate industry in real-estate mutual fund returned 11.6% over the last one year period.

Neuberger Berman Real Estate (NBRFX): A primarily invests in equity securities issued by real estate investment trusts also invests in common stocks and other securities issued by companies from the real estate industry and the real-estate mutual fund returned 8.3% over the last one year period.

Nuveen Real Estate Securities A (FREAX): The seeks current income and long term capital growth in fund invests in publicly traded companies from the real estate sector to fund focuses on acquiring income-generating common stock of real estate companies to not more than 25% of its assets may be used to purchase foreign stocks in the real-estate mutual fund returned 6.31% over the last one year period.

DWS RREEF Real Estate Securities A (RRRAX): A invests the majority of its assets in real estate investment trusts and companies to focuses on acquiring common stock in may also purchase preferred or convertible stocks in the real-estate mutual fund returned 8.99% over the last one year period.

American Capital Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)

How To Lower Your Tax Bill On REITs or Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs), investors are sometimes surprised by the hefty tax bill in REITs and MLPs are taxed at ordinary income tax rates if they are in taxable accounts to takes a big bite out of the total return for many for  a way to get around this tax bill if an investor has capital losses he can use to call this strategy dividends to capital gains conversion.

A idea is this to taking dividends in the form of capital gains and then offsetting those gains with capital losses you may have you can pay an effective tax rate of 0% in compare this to paying either the 15% rate for qualified dividends for most people or your top marginal income tax rate on REIT investments and MLPs.

So how does one go about converting dividends to capital gains? It takes some monitoring, but it could very well be worth your time to 1st let's define the ex-dividend date for a stock in the ex-dividend date is the day on which all shares bought and sold no longer come attached with the right to be paid the most recently declared dividend is an important date for any company that has many stockholders, including those that trade on exchanges, as it makes reconciliation of who is to be paid the dividend easier is just as important for investors you to must own a stock before the ex-dividend date in order to receive the next scheduled dividend.

North American Real Estate at Apollo Global Management LLC.

Mikulich, Apollo’s Head of North American Real Estate, Resigns for NYSE:APO and the Raymond Mikulich left as head of North American real estate at Apollo Global Management LLC, in accordance with a company spokesperson.

The charles zehren, a spokesman for New York-based Apollo stated that he can validate Ray has left the company to he refused to comment more to a mikulich, former co-chief of real estate investments for Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., stepped in Apollo (APO) in September 2010.

He departed Lehman in 2007 as the commercial-property market reached its zenith. The following year to the investment bank submitted the biggest bankruptcy in US history in coburn Packard and Jess Lipsey, two other ex-Lehman workers who joined Apollo with Mikulich stay at the company.

The Apollo Global Management LLC (NYSE:APO) began the trading session with a price of $14.93 and throughout the session climbed at a high of $15.23 day-trade ended the stock finally advanced 1.42% to $14.96 and the APO had a trade volume of 2.25 million shares was higher as compared to average trading capacity of 0.272 million shares.

Real Estate Market Had a Low Vacancy Rate At The End Of Last Year 2011 For Calgary's Industrial.

A became evident in late 2011 that Calgary was one of the top performing industrial markets in North and South America, says commercial real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield in the market had positive absorption in the change in occupied space of almost one million square feet last year ended with a vacancy rate of 4.7 per cent was down from 4.9 per cent at the end of 2010 in the vacancy rate has steadily declined since the peak of about 6.2 per cent in late 2009.

The Calgary’s industrial market is firing on all cylinders right now vital economic engine in the city even throughout the recession, our market is being fueled primarily by the expansion and new entrants of logistics operations and oil and gas service providers,” says Cushman & Wakefield in the firm says developers began to prepare and started construction on new supply in 2011, resulting in eight speculative projects now planned for 2012 or 2013 completion, totalling about 3.343 million square feet.

We have not seen this amount of new construction in the pipeline in Calgary since 2008 in says there’s another 25 projects that are in the planning stages.

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Bank of America

A Bank of America made $2 billion in the last three months of last year, reversing a loss from a year earlier offset legal expenses over mortgages and losses in its investment banking business by selling debt and its stake in a Chinese bank said Thursday that it made 15 cents per share in the 4th quarter to that fell short of the 22 cents expected by analysts surveyed by FactSet a provider of financial data was in line with other estimates.

For the year, the bank made $1.4 billion to lost $2.2 billion in 2010 to bank of America has been raising cash by selling pieces of itself that don’t fit into its basic banking model strategy was also a way to prepare for a Federal Reserve stress test is under way and meet international regulatory standards.

We have enter 2012 stronger and more efficient after two years of simplifying and streamlining our company, CEO Brian Moynihan said, bank of America results are considered a gauge of the health of the American consumer in the bank serves about half of American households to the results showed that housing continues to remain a concern in the economy in bank of America’s real estate business lost $1.5 billion after a 74 percent decline in new home loans and the bank lost some market share and closed a division that helped 3rd-party home lenders.

Calgary’s Office Market

In 2011, Calgary already bested most major cities when its vacancy rate dropped down to 7.2%. Only Ottawa (6.9%), Quebec City (4.7%) and Regina (1%) had lower office vacancy rates to looking ahead to this year in the report said Calgary will continue to see major action in offices in the vacancy dropping to 5.2%, which will put it below Quebec City and Ottawa this time around and the Regina will remain the lowest despite rising to 4.1%.

A Vancouver is another city expected to see significantly lower office vacancy rates in 2012, down from 7.6% last year to 6.4% this year, according to Avison Young to the forecast also included a study of the U.S. market to with the residential sector, Avison Young Chairman and CEO Mark Rose found the commercial market to be stronger in Canada.

There is a dichotomy in the North American commercial real estate market he said, Canada is experiencing a period of stability and modest growth in the United States continues to search for traction in the recovery process to that yet-to-recover U.S market has nonetheless, attracted an increasing number of Canadian investment dollars to given the relatively small investable universe in Canada, we continue to notice a growing trend of Canadian buyers heading south of the border, said Rose.

The U.S. cities have much higher office vacancy rates, the trend in many is improving for a example, Chicago’s vacancy rate went from 20.2% at the end of 2010 to 15.1% in 2011 to the retail side, the trend has been U.S. companies setting up shop in Canada, including Target, J. Crew, Express and Marshalls in the industrial sector, years of decreasing vacancy may return speculative development this year in some markets, said the report.

American Realty Capital Healthcare Trust, Inc.

The American Realty Capital Healthcare Trust, Inc. (the "Company") announced today that it had raised in excess of $75.0 million in aggregate gross proceeds from all investors for its shares of common stock in accordingly, the Company is now accepting subscriptions from all states where it has cleared, including subscriptions from residents of Pennsylvania.

American Realty Capital Healthcare Trust, Inc. is a publicly registered, non-traded real estate investment program to arrange interviews with executives of American Realty Capital Healthcare Trust, Inc. please contact Tony DeFazio at 484-532-7783 or tony@defaziocommunications.com.

SOURCE: American Realty Capital Healthcare Trust, Inc

Top real estate market news of 2011

Before we get too far into 2012, let's take a look back at some of the top real estate market news of 2011:

January 2011. A biggest news at the beginning of 2011 was what happened in 2010: It was a record year for foreclosures. Realty Trac's 2010 Year End U.S. Foreclosure Report showed roughly 1 million homes that's one in every 45 for the foreclosed on in 2010.

March 2011. The coreLogic released data indicating U.S. homeowners had a massive $750 billion in negative equity in the top five states for underwater mortgages included Nevada, Arizona, Michigan, California and Florida to a states still continue to struggle, with high foreclosure rates resulting in lower home sale prices across the board.

April 2011. A Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) announced it would proceed with mandatory enforcement actions against eight mortgage servicers  including Citibank, HSBC, JP Morgan Chase, MetLife Bank, PNC, U.S. Bank, Wells Fargo and Bank of America.

Two Senior Real Estate Investors Announced Today For Jacob Frydman and Eli Verschleiser

The Veteran real estate investors Jacob Frydman and Eli Verschleiser announced today the formation of a new firm specializing in commercial real estate investments and independent strategic advice and the new firm, named United Realty Partners, will leverage the experience and financial acumen of its management team to capitalize on investment opportunities in commercial real estate, primarily in the eastern United States.

A United Realty Partners, based in New York and comprised of more than 15 real estate professionals, will advise on and invest in commercial real estate projects in markets poised to benefit from favorable demographic trends including rising populations and household incomes in the firm and affiliates will also make opportunistic investments in distressed or underperforming properties that can benefit from repositioning, redevelopment and other value-enhancing initiatives.

The Real estate continues to be an important component of a diversified investment portfolio, and we look forward to taking advantage of opportunities in the market for the benefit of our clients, said Jacob Frydman and the Chairman and CEO of United Realty Partners.

Florida Real Estate Tips.

The Real estate market Florida is offering foreign buyers presents a doubly good opportunity rarely seen in the region, Prices are flat or declining and foreign currencies are rising relative to the U.S dollar in the current conditions are especially attractive to investors who have seen prices rise sharply in the native countries to levels now well exceed comparable properties in Florida buying a bargain is not that simple in real estate agents must guide foreign buyers a complex maze of visas and real estate regulations and currency rules.

A Prospective buyers need to be educated to avoid mistakes that will cause them to be turned away at U.S Customs or the bank and foreign buyers need to know that the U.S government takes a different view of a real estate transaction when a foreign individual or corporation is involved for a structuring the deal in even before viewing residential or commercial properties, a real estate agent should help the buyer structure the purchase in tax experts advise that because of estate tax and other issues, a foreign buyer should hold the property in the name of a corporate entity.

And Depending on the value of the property, the title holder could be an offshore company it could also be a Florida LLC that’s owned by an offshore company in any case, the companies should be set up well before settling on a home or a building so as not to impede the closing due to corporate paperwork in the biggest possible mistake: Buying in an individual’s name.

Bank of America Plaza

The Atlanta's Bank of America Plaza is one of the 10 tallest structures in the U.S. And thanks to troubles at its namesake Bank of America Corp. (BAC) and other one-time tenants, skyscraper could be one of the tallest foreclosure tales of the financial crisis as it struggles to meet its debt service and offices remain empty and the Altanta Journal Constitution newspaper writes a company that specializes in troubled loans is making preparations in a possible foreclosure.

A negotiations continue on a deal to try to prevent the property from being seized by the lender according to a report by Trepp, a real estate research firm to be clear in the tower is owned by California-based commercial real estate firm Bentley Forbes not Bank of America in bentleyForbes bought the 55-story tower at the height of the nationwide real estate boom under the premise that it could get big rents for tenants clamoring for office space.

The $363 million loan on Bank of America plaza went to LNR Partners in February in a second loan had been in default for non-payment and Obviously Bank of America isn't the one holding the bag on this property it is hard to ignore the direct relationship between the boom and bust or real estate and the boom and bust of U.S financial institutions over the last decade.

A Total U.S. Commercial Investment

Total U.S. Commercial Investment Transactions Top $160 Billion in 2011 Up 44% Over 2010 and they are according to Jones Lang LaSalle's Capital Markets Outlook, preliminary investment transaction volume in the U.S includes office, industrial, retail and multifamily transactions, was up 44 percent to $160 billion for 2011.

In addition, Jones Lang LaSalle believes transaction volume growth trends will continue throughout 2012, but at a slower year-over-year growth rate when compared to 2010 and 2011 in total investment activity in 2012 is projected to increase 15-20 percent over our preliminary December estimate for 2011 volume of $160 billion to this does represent a slowing of growth from the estimated 44 percent increase in 2011.

A 2010, total investment volume grew 117 percent, but driven largely by a historically anemic 2009 transaction volume base said Jay Koster, President of Jones Lang LaSalle's Capital Markets group in the Americas to a investors entered the year feeling stronger about and the market and they began putting capital aggressively into real estate in the 1st-half of 2011.

First American Financial Corporation

The 1st American Financial Corporation (NYSE: FAF), a leading global provider of title insurance and settlement services for real estate transactions, announced today that it has set the dates on which it expects to announce its financial and operating results of the 4th quarter of 2011 and the 1st three quarters of 2012.

At the present time, the company expects to issue press releases announcing quarterly and year-to-date financial results on the following dates:

    Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012 – 2011 Fourth Quarter and Year-End Results
    Thursday, April 26, 2012 – First Quarter Results
    Thursday, July 26, 2012 – Second Quarter Results
    Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012 – Third Quarter Results

And 1st AmericanFirst American Financial Corporation (NYSE: FAF) is a leading provider of title insurance and settlement services to the real estate and mortgage industries, that traces its heritage back to 1889 in the 1st American and its affiliated companies also provide title plant management services and the title and other real property records and images and the revenues of $3.9 billion in 2010 to the company offers its products and services directly and through its agents and partners in all 50 states and abroad.

Americans Feel

A Gallup asked the Americans “Who much do you need to fell rich?” And the outcome is $150,000, or $1 million in net worth, savings in cash, real estate, or other investments is a bit higher than what the median annual income of $50,000 per year to the past few years the question about who’s “rich” in the United States has been frequently discussed as the nation’s policymakers debate income-tax and deficit-reduction policies in during the Occupy Wall Street protests the attention has been focused on the wealthiest 1% of the Americans.

This poll made by Gallup, Nov 28 Dec 1 2011, suggests Americans would need quite a bit less than what the wealthiest 1% earn to consider themselves rich for the annual income in the United States is a little bit higher now than it was in 2003 when Gallup asked the American citizens last time in the median was to consider themselves rich was $120,000 and now it’s $150,000.

The US median annual household income is roughly $50,000 per year poll shows that people below this level need to earn $100,000 or more to think of themselves as rich at or above the level consider $200,000 as the limit and this expands to $250,000 among those well above the US median income to this poll Gallup also finds higher estimates of annual income needed to be rich among men, $150,000, than among women, $100,000 are also higher for younger (18-49 years of age), $160,000 vs. older Americans (age 50 or older) $100,000.

Las Vegas Real Estate Market Forecast 2012

A Las Vegas homes for sale year end activity sets the stage for what could make Vegas the #1 city in America for 2012 and the las Vegas Real Estate.org reports diverse world-wide attention to purchase as the medium the home price starts at $122,000 in homes for sale in Las Vegas Nevada have become ground zero for savvy buyers and investors looking to rebuild real estate portfolios and lifestyle.

The CNN Money, Markey Watch and Inman News have all ranked Las Vegas real estate in top 10 cities to invest in trulia price-to-rent ratio research confirmed by Las Vegas Real Estate.org places Las Vegas homes for sale as #1 in America for the ashley McCormick of Realty One, Nevada's number one Las Vegas real estate company says, buyers and investors are excited about the opportunity they are able to acquire for the money.

McCormick notes that out-of-state clients compare the lifestyle Vegas offers for the money and are overly impressed by the amenities of Las Vegas in she also sites the increases in offers being written site-unseen on Las Vegas condos for sale by investors who live out-of-state but familiar with the area from previous visits and las Vegas consistently makes the Top 10 lists such as TripAdvisor.com "Food & Wine Destinations" and CNBC "Most Diverse Cities" in Vegas is also becoming a popular choice for internet companies such as Zappos.com and was sited in the Top 10 cities for 4G wireless.

United States is Most Global Commercial Real Estate Investors in 2012.

A New york  to the United States will remain the top choice of most global commercial real estate investors in 2012, but the country has lost ground to Brazil which ranked No. 2 this year, according to a survey released Sunday and the United States offers the most stable and secure option in commercial real estate, investors said improvement in rent and occupancy growth and repeal of a 1980 foreign investment tax would have the strongest impact on a investment decisions, according to the 20th annual survey of Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate (AFIRE) members.

The past year or so, investors in U.S. commercial real estate have focused on gateway cities such as New York, Washington, Boston, San Francisco and the Los Angeles, driving prices up and yields down in commercial property in Brazil in bubbling economy and safer investment environment, has become a hot spot for global investors to a sao Paulo, Brazil's largest city, jumped to the 4th best city for real estate investment dollars in 2012, up from 26th place last year.

The United States is still very desirable and was 2nd behind the UK in attracting cross border investment in 2011 according to Real Capital Analytics preliminary figures and the negative is it doesn't promise a whole lot of capital appreciation because the prime markets are already fully priced in afire Chief Executive Officer James Fetgatter said, to some 42.2 percent said they believed the United States in 2012 would offer the best opportunity for the price of the commercial real estate investments to increase, down from 64.7 percent last year's survey.