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How to secure fractional financing
Date: 6th March 2011
David Disick presents his latest Fractional Trade article, a strategy to help developers raise finance. Developers, are you fed up with the current difficulties in securing developer and consumer financing? Take comfort. Financing can be obtained.This article sets forth a programme of ten [ read more… ]
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A Fractional Vacation Home Sale in under 90 Minutes? You Must Be Kidding!
Date: 12th January 2011
David Disick brings us the third part of his fractional sales masterclass The first two parts of this series (which can be found here and here) stressed the need for fractional sales agents to “engineer the train of thought” of their customers. Agents must control the direction [ read more… ]
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Does the new Timeshare Directive sound a death knell for fractional ownership in the EU?
Date: 29th December 2010
David M Disick says the new EU timeshare directive offers developers opportunities as well as challenges. "If life gives you lemons, make [ read more… ]
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Book review: Fractional Vacation Homes: Marketing and Sales in challenging times, by David M Disick
Date: 28th September 2010
Fractional Trade editor George Sell reviews Fractional Vacation Homes: Marketing and Sales in challenging times, by David M Disick David Disick (pictured left) introduces his book on fractional sales by quoting the mountaineer George Mallory, who replied “Because it's there,” when [ read more… ]
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Fractional Pricing: Determining the Fractional Multiplier
Date: 7th September 2010
In his latest Fractional Trade article, David Disick looks at pricing of developments using the fractional multiplier. What has proven most intriguing to real estate developers of new properties, investors and private whole ownership vacation home sellers of existing properties alike is the [ read more… ]
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Fractional sales: Four tips on relations with the general real estate brokerage community
Date: 28th July 2010
The latest article by David Disick deals with how fractional developers can establish productive relationships with real estate brokers.Last week, I described some of the elements in familiarizing the general brokerage community with the profit opportunities for knowledgeable brokers in [ read more… ]
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How to familiarize the brokerage community with the profit opportunities in fractionals
Date: 20th July 2010
How to Familiarize the Brokerage Community with the Profit Opportunities in FractionalsIn his latest article, David M. Disick looks at how to educate real estate brokers to the benefits of fractional ownership.In last week's Paper, we described Four Keys to Successful Fractional Sales. One of those [ read more… ]
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Four keys to successful fractional real estate sales
Date: 11th July 2010
In his latest Fractional Trade article, David Disick looks at successful fractional real estate sales.In a thoughtful piece on this site dated March 11 and entitled Fractional Real Estate Commissions, Piers Brown concluded that:• "To effectively market fractional real estate, some flexibility [ read more… ]
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How to successfully negotiate luxury fractional real estate financing
Date: 28th June 2010
By David M. Disick. In Part I of this paper, we summarized the powerful case for Luxury Fractional real estate investment. In this part, we will summarize several factors in the mindset of capital sources currently and how to successfully address them. We will then summarize general [ read more… ]
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Tax implications of owning Thai fractional real estate
Date: 18th June 2010
Fractional ownership of holiday homes is a relatively new concept in Thailand. It offers the benefits of owning a holiday home for a fraction of the cost. The tax considerations for fractional property owners are similar in many respects to traditional ownership of real estate in Thailand. Paul [ read more… ]
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