During the past few years, the real estate business has undergone many significant changes.

In short, the nature of the business has changed significantly, affecting a wide range of business activities, including: competitive strategies, relationships with buyers and suppliers; methods of marketing and development; systems for control, coordination and motivation; product development; financial management; human resource development and management.

How various real estate organizations respond to these changes will directly affect their future success.

Strategic planning in the real estate business involves a variety of disciplines — organization analysis, tax planning, market analysis, deal-structuring, investment planning and financial analysis, to name but a few.

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Lets explore the fascinating question: Who does make money in real estate, and how do they do it?

The specific type of property we’ll focus on in this article concerns residential real estate. It won’t come as earthshaking news to you when most people say that they bought a house in order to live in it. Basically, they chose it because they liked it.

Not all of them do, however. And therein lies a key distinction. Many bought the house not because they were fond of it, but because they hoped you would be. It was purchased for resale. We’ll call the first group “nesters,” the second “investors.”

What makes residential real estate different from, say, common stocks is this: There’s no such thing as a nester in stocks. People don’t buy a stock certificate for personal use. It’s too small to serve as a blanket and doesn’t taste very good. It’s also not much fun to look at for long. That forces them to think about its resale value even before they buy it.

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The following event should be of interest to all Canadareic Members and friends or associates. The event is free and may fit into your investment ambitions - in short you could purchase a home in the US for US$18,500 or there-abouts as long as the numbers haven't changed from those presented in Vancouver last weekend. If you attend and tell them you were referred by me I will donate my proceeds to the Club. Jim Davis See attached

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"The economy is in an inflationary recession denied by most central banks and in our market manipulation capitals of Washington and New York. Traders and investors need to pay attention to actual stats not those with a mainstream, Keynesian agenda. We find their goofy defense stunningly remarkable and replete with nonsense. Jawboning (shoveling you know what) has become the greatest indoor, totally imperfect sport for Chopper Ben Brenanke and Hank Paulson. We are not calling them liars but perhaps they are fibbing slightly more than usual around the edges. Benny hides it as he appears half asleep most of the time. Paulson on the other hand cannot hide his appearance of naked fear and desperation. On one occasion, we thought he would have a heart attack." - Traderrog

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If Americans feel they are being pick-pocketed by inflation, they should take a look overseas. With the United States pushing its trade deficit and dollars on the rest of the world, many world central banks thought they could grab a "free lunch" by buying US Treasuries to hold the exchange rate of their currencies down, and paying for them by printing up free local currency. This so-called free lunch has turned out to be mighty expensive.

Currently, over 3 billion people are experiencing what it feels like to be robbed by inflation. While free trade and globalization initially pushed up the standard of living in many developing countries, increases in the demand for basics like food and fuel, fueled by an over-supply of money and credit, have goosed inflation in a big way. So much so, the middle class and poor in many countries are literally being wiped out. Starving, desperate, and angry people are appearing in the headlines daily as they try to bring this dire situation to the attention of their leaders through violent demonstrations and riots. (What you don't see in the press every day, but should, is in the chart below):

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