Saturday, October 18, 2008

Buying Foreclosed Properties- Profitable or Unprofitable

The easiest way to make investment in real estate is purchasing foreclosed property at auction. The auctioning of foreclosed property is supervised by the state court and organized at the location of the property.

Buying of foreclosed property at auctions is very advantageous to new investors as these properties are available at very low prices and when resold they provide a huge profit to the investors. Besides this, during the auctioning of foreclosure property, the interested buyers are given the notice six weeks before so that they can investigate the properties and learn about the amount to be spend on the repairs and maintenance.

However, there are also some disadvantages of buying a foreclosed property at auction. It requires a huge capital investment which is to be paid in very short period. There is a great risk while transferring of title.

Thus in order to make buying and selling of foreclosed property successful, it requires significant and correct research. Buying of a foreclosed property is based on the principle of higher the risk higher the gain but even if you are taking risk you need to be vigilant so that you may not fall trap into fake deals.