Archive for May, 2008
Considering Real Estate Investment
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008Real estate can and should be part of your investment thinking. This is true even if the only real estate you own is your home. You may think of your home in non-financial terms-a haven from the daily grind, a spot to put your feet up and let your hair down, or a meeting place […]
HOHFELD’S Vocabulary and its Limitations
Saturday, May 10th, 2008property, real-estate, refinance
Popular and Sophisticated Conceptions of Property
Friday, May 9th, 2008real-estate, property, asset, refinance, liquidation
Expectations and Property Market
Friday, May 9th, 2008real-estate, property, assets, refinance
The Idea of Property continue…
Thursday, May 8th, 2008property, mortgage
The Idea of Property
Thursday, May 8th, 2008Property, liquidation, mortgage
A Misguided Enterprise? continue…
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008P4 is both overdrawn and confused. It is true that intangible property is increasingly important. It is also true that, with the rise of the trust and the publicly held corporation, conceiving of property as a bundle of rights is especially useful. But if the criticism of P1 is sound, intangibles have long been considered […]
A Misguided Enterprise?
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008Some might claim that it is misguided to analyze property and property rights in the way suggested here because the notion of property is too fragmented to allow for a general theory. A provocative article by Grey seems to make this claim. He contends that the “disintegration” of property ultimately means that property “ceases to […]
House and Debt Through Secured Loans
Friday, May 2nd, 2008A protected debt is a debt in which the creditor maintains a safety interest in an item or piece of individual property such as a house or an automobile. With secured debts, if you drop following on payments, the lender can recover the property that initially secured the debt. An added disadvantage to secured debt […]
