I often hear real estate investors say that they wish they
could predict the next “hot market” and make a killing like
so many did in Las Vegas, Florida, and Phoenix in the last
five years. Well, no one has a crystal ball, and fortune
tellers are hard to find these days, but research and
analysis of vital signs in the housing market can help the
serious real estate investor become more accurate in
identifying housing market trends so as to know when to buy
and when to sell.
 
A recently published book, Timing the Real Estate Market by
Robert M. Campbell can assist us in making sense out of
housing booms and housing busts. Campbell has a proven
system for buying and selling real estate for maximum
profits.
 
Campbell argues that there are five vital signs which are
your windows into the future. They are;
1. Existing Home Sales
2. New Home Building Permits
3. Mortgage Loan Defaults
4. Foreclosure Sales 
5. Interest rates
 
These vital sign indicators give you the ability to analyze
and anticipate future market trends. “By giving you a
month-to-month mathematical accounting of the battle
between supply and demand, they tell you whether the buyers
or the sellers are winning the war and hence which way
property values are most likely to move.”
 
He believes his method can give you a three to six month
head start on when housing prices are going to bottom out
(buy), and when they will most likely reach their peak
(sell).
 
In addition to his book, Campbell also has a Real Estate
Timing Newsletter, Cd’s and market momentum charting
software. For more information contact Robert Campbell at
Robert@RealEstateTiming.com.
 
 
Good Investing, 
 
Ron Watcke, President
REIA of Oakland