In his new book, The Missing Keys To Thriving In Any Real Estate Market, Eddie Godshalk answers questions about the collapse of the housing market and describes how investors and consumers can avoid such disasters in the future. Readers will find a detailed analysis and answers to some of the most pressing questions regarding the current housing crisis, such as: What is the crucial bit of missing information that contributed to the collapse of the housing market and the ensuing recession? What did investors, home buyers, lenders, and Realtors® lack that would have allowed them to accurately foresee looming disaster?
What everyone needed was information, but not information that was six months or even a year old, not information that described market trends on a broad level. What we needed was insight into the trends and conditions that determine price and how to access that information on the local or micro level. And such a system has been developed by Eddie Godshalk, a Realtor®, investor, successful author, speaker, and creator of HomeValuePredictor.com, the real estate investment tool of the future which is scheduled to begin operations in the coming weeks.
What Mr. Godshalk has done, and which is explained in detail in his latest book, The Missing Keys to Thriving in Any Real Estate Market, is develop a system for analyzing the core data necessary for prudent real estate purchases. Beginning with an analysis of the current real estate crisis and with an explanation of the causes, the book describes how traditional methods of evaluating real estate and predicting future value have failed to keep real estate investors from disaster. With up-to-date information and projections of future trends, the Home Value Predictor fills a void that can not only simplify the process of purchasing real estate, but will also remove much of the risk. This unique system provides detailed information down to the census block level (about 300 households).
A great tool for consumers, investors, builders, Realtors®, lenders, appraisers, and developers, the Home Value Predictor provides micro market information, using algorithms to analyze local prices, income, education levels, trends, average age, employment statistics, vacancy rates, affordability, and recent changes. The system processes the data to provide the latest and most specific information ever available, and with the ability to predict trends up to twenty-four months out, the Home Value Predictor provides users with “street-analysis technology” to help them make prudent purchases with the highest probability for future appreciation.
An information-packed “whack on the side of the head,” I recommend The Missing Keys To Thriving In Any Real Estate Market and believe that Eddie Godshalk may just have revolutionized the way we’ll evaluate real estate purchases in the future.
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