Foreclosure News & Housing News Blog

Crescent Communities Releases Hottest Home-Building Trends for 2009
Crescent Communities identified the hottest new home trends expected for 2009 after compiling information from buyers and prospects in all its Charlotte-area luxury communities.
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Real Estate Outlook: Housing in Recovery
With all the turbulence and losses in stocks and bad economic news in the headlines lately, you can easily lose perspective on what's really going on in the real estate sector.
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Holiday Wish List
With the holidays just around the corner, you better get busy shopping. Here's a short wish-list of this years must-have gadgets and gizmos for the home. These modern gifts are sure to get your motor running while also enhancing the functionality and livability of your household.
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Greenspan & "The Globally-Integrated Phenomenon"
How can individual property owners make sense of an economic situation of such global scope and economy-shattering depth that financial experts like Dr. Alan Greenspan, Chairman of the US Federal Reserve System from 1987 to2006, are even driven to say, "I don't know"?
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Making Your Scripts Work
Let's talk about scripts. I think they have a place in the human experience -- we all use scripts every day, in both our personal and business lives. "Hi, how are you?" is a script, as is "Hi, this is Jennifer Allan with RE/MAX City Horizons; I'd like to set a showing... ." I use essentially the same script every time I go through a purchase contract with a buyer or a listing agreement with a seller. When I finish up a day of showing, I always say "So, that's our show for today - how did we do?"
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Washington Report: Uniform Disclosures Mandated
It took six years and major controversies with Capitol Hill, but last Thursday HUD published final regulations mandating uniform disclosures for all new home mortgages -- plus tougher rules requiring "good faith estimates" from lenders that accurately reflect the line items on consumers' settlement sheets at the end of a home purchase or refinancing.
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Hot Market: Dallas/Ft. Worth: Where Everything's Big
Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas Realtors are so up on their market that they even created a web site about it: www.DFWHousingFacts.org. The web site touts all the reasons the 4th largest metropolitan area in the U.S. is a great place to buy in today s economic environment.
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Investor Report: REO Scam Warning
The nationwide boom in foreclosures and bank-owned real estate (REO) property sales to investors is producing an unpleasant and sometimes dangerous side effect: Growing numbers of confrontations occur when investors visiting supposedly empty properties find them occupied -- and the inhabitants don't want to leave or let anybody in.
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Home Warranty May Come in Handy
You are about ready to close your real estate transaction on a home; did you consider a home warranty?
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Mortgage Rates Down for Second Week Running
McLEAN, VA -- Freddie Mac (NYSE:FRE) today released the results of its Primary Mortgage Market Survey (PMMS) in which the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) averaged 6.14 percent with an average 0.7 point for the week ending November 13, 2008, down from last week when it averaged 6.20 percent. Last year at this time, the 30-year FRM averaged 6.24 percent.
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