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When it comes to residential real estate, age is often overlooked. Well, more accurately, old age is often overlooked in favor of news and programs geared toward first time home[...]
Understanding the real estate industry is always a challenge, but the recovery that we have been talking about recently has not been kind to homeowners. Instead, what we are seeing[...]
When you think of tornadoes you think of Kansas and the Great Plains states. You may be wrong these days. The Weather Channel has come out with their list of[...]
In my parents generation it was easy, you dated, got engaged, got married, then bought the house. Lots of little check marks on the list and very few deviated from the norm.[...]
I always like lists that come from companies that are in the trenches. The U-Haul report is especially interesting because it is counting those that are migrating without hiring the[...]
Home builders are thrilled today on reports that demand for new construction improved significantly during the month of March. While any increase is great news for the battered construction industry, this[...]
If you are in a home that is still underwater, you may qualify for a H.A.R.P. mortgage from the Federal Housing Finance Agency. The program that was supposed to expire[...]
When a real estate agent shows a home, they really never know what they are going to run into. That was the case for an agent working in California’s Marin[...]
The housing industry has always been in a cycle where the the lending standards will loosen until there is a bubble or over-valuation and then over tighten to create an[...]
If you are an older guy like me, you remember the old TV show, The 6 Million Dollar Man, featuring Steve Austin as an astronaut who suffered a crash and[...]
I bet you did not know that the National Association of Realtors (NAR) runs an accelerator program for new startups through their Second Century Ventures fund, did you? I didn’t until[...]
With the significant increase in billionaires in the world over the past year due to the improving stock markets, Savills has come out with their annual World Cities Review report.[...]
Freddie Mac, one of the key mortgage lenders, has issued its outlook for the real estate market and it is coming up roses. Now every increased percentage point of property[...]
The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) showed a slight dip for January, 2013. The results issued today showed the HMI index slipped 4 points from[...]
