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There were 254 Oahu single family homes that sold in the month of June 2009 compared to 232 Oahu single family homes that sold in the month of June 2008. That was an increase in the number of sales by 9%. That is really good news and if the number of sales keeps increasing [...]
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Austin Real Estate Guy Blog
June, 2009 Austin Real Estate Market Stats
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June is over and I just pulled numbers from the MLS. I looked at sales of all residential units and then just at single-family homes. As you can see, units sold were down around 21% in 2009 compared to dropping around 15% in 2008. As you can also see, prices dropped, but not terribly. You can also see that it is taking longer to sell than last ...
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How Real Estate Agents Can Generate Quality Leads Inexpensively
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RISMEDIA, July 3, 2009-After writing an article recently about ranking lead quality, I received many questions about joint venture relationships. In the article, I ranked joint venture leads as being the second-best lead you could generate. A joint venture relationship is defined by Wikipedia as: "A relationship formed between two or more ...
Benn Rosales
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Real Estate Opinion MAG
Real Estate Pros Can Offer Branded Mobile Web Property Search App to Home Buyers
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Don\'t be stingy with your thoughts- stop by and comment! Finally, you can offer more than just service Give’em a shopping cart! You’ve seen them popping up all over the place, those sweet iPhone and Palm Pre applications, and your head spins because the only way you’ve been able to offer it to your consumer is by pimping ...
Benn Rosales
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Real Estate Opinion MAG
AgentWorx iPhone App- Your Real Estate Business at Your Fingertips
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Don\'t be stingy with your thoughts- stop by and comment! Manage your real estate business with iPhone Apple’s latest real estate iPhone app approval is AgentWorx by AppSpice. It’s a productivity management tool for agents (for ten bucks). We all know those calls we get at the most inopportune time; you know, as you’re getting ...
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Florida Offers Help to Some with Home Down Payment
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RISMEDIA, July 2, 2009-(MCT)-Starting Wednesday, Florida hopes to stoke its real estate market by becoming one of the few states to offer $8,000 in down-payment assistance to qualified home buyers so they can benefit upfront from a new federal tax credit. The state Legislature set aside $30 million to create the Florida ...
Sellsius
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Sellsius real estate marketing blog
Real Estate Porn: I am Condo Curious
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Pushing the print ad envelope. With the decline in print ads, I guess they figure no one is looking. (what are those guys looking at?) via The Official Realtor Ad Awards (check out Dana... Thanks for subscribing to our feed. If you want more, please click on the headline. Thank you!
JohnF
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Boston Real Estate Blog
Real estate pending sales isn’t a reliable indicator
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The National Association of Realtors is trumpeting a fourth consecutive monthly gain in their report of pending home sales. The index tracks the number of contracts signed on homes, which increased in May by just 0.1% from the previous month. Pending sales are up 6.7% from a year ago. In the past those contracts would give [...]
The Trump Blog
Real Estate Investing: Creative Ways of Selling a Home to a Buyer
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by Tina Merritt Many residential real estate investors have found that in a buyer's market, the buyer's have a buffet to choose from and the sellers are always looking for new and innovative ways to stand out as the better choice in the line. Sometimes, offering creative ways of financing can open the property up to a new consumer or offer ...
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For the second year in a row, I was for sale. Well, not me exactly, but dinner with me. Not just dinner with me, worse: a dinner for eight (six plus my husband, Dan, and me) that I would cook. The fact that six people pooled money for this proves two things: The world is full of people searching penance. What people will do for charity knows no ...
Collectibles As Much Art Objects As Flower Holders Walking in the door of the Coffee Trade in Avon one afternoon, I spied a bowl of round glass objects amid the antiques on display. Each glass round had holes on one side, so it resembled nothing so much as a piece of glass honeycomb. The object, I was told, was a flower frog.
 
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FrontDoor Unlocked
HGTV's FrontDoor.com senior editor Annalisa Burgos talks about one of the top 10 homebuying mistakes that can cost you and the summer season home updates that pay off when you sell.
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The Real Estate Bloggers
Mortgage Lending Drops as Interest Rates Rise - Surprised
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While the government is spending money to fix our problems, the resulting rising interest rates are putting pressure on the mortgage market. So much so that mortgage lending has dropped to an 8 month low as higher interest rates and rising unemployment is convince homebuyers to remain at home. The scary thing is that this genie [...] Thanks for ...
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Mathew Padilla
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Mortgage Insider
O.C. mortgage delinquency jumps again
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TransUnion reports 6.7% of Orange County homeowners with mortgages were at least two months behind on payments in March, up from 5.3% in December and more than double the rate a year earlier. Orange County’s bad debt rate topped the U.S. — which had a 5.2% rate — for the fourth straight quarter. California’s rate was [...]
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A few years ago, the sight of a house going up near Lower Greenville Avenue wouldn't have prompted a second look. But these days, a foundation being poured or lumber being raised is a lot less common in Dallas.
While driving down Meridian Avenue, I popped off a great shot of a picketer outside a local Miami Beach real estate firm. Don’t see this kind of action here, much. Post from: South Beach... Finish reading at the South Beach Condo Blog
Are you underwater on your Colorado Springs home mortgage? Now you may have the opportunity to refinance into better rate and terms even if you owe more than your home is worth. “WASHINGTON - U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan today announced an expansion of the Obama Administration’s Home Affordable Refinance ...
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Lawmakers' insurance hearing draws homeowners, business leaders Florida residents and business leaders told federal lawmakers Thursday that the rising cost of property insurance is hitting state residents and the economy hard, and called on Congress to pass legislation for a "catastrophe fund" to help local homeowners.
 
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Zillow Blog
Shad Gregory Moss, better known by his stage name Bow Wow (formerly Lil’ Bow Wow), recently sold his Duluth, GA home for $850,000. The lucky buyer? Atlanta Braves pitcher Kenshin Kawakami. The property is located at 2315 Sugarloaf Club Drive, Duluth, GA and is pimped out with a home theater system, swimming pool, new kitchen, and [...]
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What you need to know For years, we've been told to watch out for lead in paint and toys. Now maybe we need to add purses and wallets to the list.
Last November, Nicolas Cage put his 3,550-square-foot, 48th-floor, five-bedroom, two-unit apartment in the Museum Tower on the market for exactly one day: The $9.75 million condo was pulled once a reporter called the actor's broker to ask about it. Eight months later, his apartment is back on at the same price. Its interior photographs are ...
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Is the Manhattan Housing Market Growing Up? Condo Party Busted
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The new condo was the ubiquitous symbol of Manhattan’s housing boom. Tens of thousands—as many as 9,000 in 2005 alone, according to an analysis at the time by The Real Deal —either were proposed for the borough or developed and sold. Not surprisingly, condos eventually outpaced co-ops in sales—a not insignificant trend given that, even ...
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A new autumn market is coming to Madison Square Park , care of the folks who organize the Union Square holiday market, along with the public-private Madison Square Park Conservancy that manages the greensward on behalf of the city. Starting Columbus Day weekend, and extending through Halloween weekend, the west side of Madison Square Park will ...
It may seem as though every where you looked during the past decade you saw new homes going up and new condos being constructed. Far from it. According to data I collected from the Center for Urban and Regional Policy (CURP), The Boston Foundation (TBF) and the Warren Group (the Warren Group), Boston and Massachusetts saw little [...]
RISMEDIA, July 2, 2009-The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending June 26, 2009. The Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, was 444.8, a decrease of 18.9% on a seasonally adjusted basis from 548.2 one week earlier. On an ...
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JohnF
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Boston Real Estate Blog
Mortgage Apps Down, Again
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Click here for a larger version The Mortgage Bankers Association just released its weekly index of applications to buy a home or refinance a loan, and the numbers aren’t good: it fell last week by 19 percent — the biggest plummet since February. As you can see from the above chart, applications have fallen by over [...]
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News of a 467,000-job loss in June, one-third worse than forecast, is hurting stocks but no help to long rates: the 10-year is stuck at 3.5 percent, mortgages just under 5.5 percent.
One of my favorite networking books is Harvey Mackay’s Dig Your Well Before You’re Thirsty. Henry’s from the old school. A good school. I highly recommend it. addthis_url ... Thanks for subscribing to our feed. If you want more, please click on the headline. Thank you!
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During the first recession that I lived through and was directly impacted by, my dad made the statement that our view on the state of the economy has to do with who we are and what our own situation is.
Don\'t be stingy with your thoughts- stop by and comment! What Does Sticky Mean? The main goal in blogging is to have a site that readers click around and find themselves sticking around, especially first time visitors. There are many ways to make your site appealing to readers, and ProBlogger, one of the web’s foremost voices on blogging ...
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Book Review: No Matter What! by Lisa Nichols
As we quickly approach the first long weekend of summer and the second half of the year, a book with the title No Matter What! is definitely a timely read.
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