Buy real estate in your IRA -- expand your investment horizons
If you've got an urge to sock away something in your IRA besides stocks, bonds and mutual funds, you may want to consider real estate. Raw land, houses, condos, commercial properties and even mortgage notes -- you can use an IRA to broaden your portfolio.

Self-directed IRA and IRA LLC for Real Estate
Many people are concerned with building wealth so that they can retire comfortably. A decades-old form of investing and creating wealth is gaining in popularity as people search for creative ways to buy real estate.

A New Buyer’s Burden
An emerging type of transfer fee can add thousands of dollars to closing costs.

Million-dollar homes ... for a fraction of the price
Fractional-ownership is a fast-growing segment of the vacation-home segment. Is it for you? How would you like a big, luxurious vacation home in a beautiful resort for just a tenth of the going rate?

Things to know before buying a vacation home
Vacation-home sales rose 4.7 percent in 2006 to a record 1.07 million sales, according to the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®. The increased interest in buying vacation homes for personal use rather than rental is expected to continue throughout this decade.

Second-home sales at all-time high
Vacation homes and investment properties show double-digit growth in 2005.

Retire in style south of the border
New resorts in Mexican beach communities are attracting many American expatriates.

What is Fractional Ownership?
Fractional ownership is essentially partial ownership of a property. To understand fractional ownership, consider a large, expensive property that may be difficult to purchase and care for on your own. Instead of becoming the sole owner of the property, you purchase a share of it, as do 10 other people. Now, you can enjoy a million dollar property for 1/10th of the price!

Think You Can't Afford Your Dream Vacation Home? Think Again
There's a new trend in real estate coming that makes owning your dream vacation home  actually affordable.

What is vacation home fractional ownership?
Vacation home fractional ownership (sometimes also known as vacation home partnership or fractional co-ownership) is an arrangement where a group (most often complete strangers but sometimes family or friends) share the costs and use of vacation property. This type of arrangement can saves the individual group members hundreds of thousands of dollars.