On New Year’s Eve I shared some thoughts that our team and board had hammered out in an end of year conference call – one of those actually useful meetings where you look back at one year and ahead to the next. 

I shared that we had planned to announce today a couple of measures to help you add to your success in what promises to be a most interesting and challenging 2009, as well as a year holding what very well might be the most significant potential for thoughtful real estate investors in decades. 

It is our firm belief that investors cannot make the best decisions without very good data, and we plan to continue our vigorous pursuit of detailed, accurate, and timely market data for real estate investors. 

The Real Estate Market Report, our monthly newsletter, is undergoing a makeover and expansion which will be fully manifest in the next issue (February 2009) to be released in a month.  We’re working hard to improve the newsletter’s readability, adding some nice font, layout, and art / photography touches, as well as making our data related articles more applicable to daily investing decision making.  We’re adding a monthly book review column as well as an “Asset Watch” column which will track key changes in other (non-multifamily / single family) real estate asset behaviors. 

Probably the most important thing we’ve elected to do with The Emerging Market Report is to lower the price for the first quarter of 2009 to $180 for a one year subscription (a 47% discount).  We have to buy groceries and pay our bills every month just like you do; we understand there is a recession in place, a long lasting one by all indications, and we’ve had numerous requests for further discounting given tough economic times.   We’d like to help, and our board has agreed to offer the price reduction as the year starts. 

The Real Estate Market Reference will now be published quarterly at the request of many industry professionals and subscribers.  We’re also reducing its price by 50% to $75 for a single issue and a years subscription (4 issues) to $150 (even less for newsletter subscribers).  There is not another document available today that offers the market rankings in over one hundred fifty different categories as we do in The Real Estate Market Reference.  

Here’s to thinking bigger and capturing opportunity in 2009. 

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