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Real Estate Markets
Ignore Housing Starts. The Real Story Is Existing Home Sales — and It’s Good News
Housing starts just hit their lowest level in three months. As observers of the real estate market, should we be worried?
The Las Vegas Real Estate Agent Who Sold 931 Homes Last Year
How many homes do you think a real estate agent sells in a year? Ten? Maybe a couple dozen in a really good year? Well, it turns out the median agent does seven “sides” — that is, represents either a buyer or seller in a home transaction — in the course of a year. So it’s pretty remarkable that there’s an agent in Las Vegas who did 931 …
Top 10 Cities To Buy vs. Rent
Historical Walt Disney, Tammy Wynette and Civil War Homes
A home with a guitar-shaped pool. An estate that once included a personal movie screening room for none other than Walt Disney. And the house where abolitionist John Brown was hanged. Take our virtual tour of these historic homes …
Six-Figure Parking Spots: The Rich Pay $125,000 to Park Their Cars
Paying $100K for a parking spot sounds totally ridiculous. Unless, that is, that spot would sell for $125K two years after it was purchased—in which case, it’d be a better investment than most traditional real estate has been lately.
Foreclosures Are Bad for Your Health
Losing your home is a nightmare—enough to make you sick to your stomach, and then some. Just how stressful is it to go through a foreclosure? A new study indicates that a rise in foreclosures correlates to an increase in …
Why Some Lowball Real Estate Offers Work — And Others Don’t
In the more than four years of the real estate recession, many wanna-be homeowners have been hunting for houses way above their realistic price range, banking on the hope that they can make a lowball offer and get it accepted.
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Housing Prices: Case-Shiller Index Rises, but Rebound Still Far Away
For the third time in three months, housing prices are up. Don’t expect that to continue.
Hot Market for Homes Selling Under $10,000
A market for ultra-cheap homes has emerged in cities around the U.S., and the result is that in many cases it’s much less expensive to buy a house than it would be to purchase a new car.
Has America Become a Nation of Squatters?
Before the recession, “squatting” brought to mind Appalachian-style family feuds, wherein the Hatfields camped out for years on end, shotguns cocked, on a remote corner of the McCoy’s acreage., or maybe starving artist
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The Real Problem in the Latest Housing Stats
The National Association of Realtors released its July report on housing on Thursday. Considering it’s back-to-school time, let’s take a quiz: The most interesting statistic in the report is …
