January 31st, 2008
But a blog can also cause agents trouble. Just ask Lucas Lechuga, an agent with Esslinger-Wooten-Maxwell, a real estate brokerate in Coral Gables, Fla. Lechuga lost his job because of what he wrote on his blog.
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January 30th, 2008
Sara Lin, a writer for the The Wall Street Journal’s online edition, found something good about the current housing slump: It’s easier, and cheaper, to find contractors to either build a house or renovate one.
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January 29th, 2008
The sales of new homes dropped by a record amount in 2007, while sales prices had their weakest showing in 16 years. If that’s not enough to shake builder confidence, what is?
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January 28th, 2008
Second-home buyers are drastically changing the nature of large slices of rural America.
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January 27th, 2008
When something goes wrong with a residential real estate purchase, who steps up to take the blame? Increasingly, the answer to that question seems to be “no one.”
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January 25th, 2008
The National Association of Realtors on Jan. 24 released the news that anyone trying to sell a home already knows: Housing sales were down in 2007.
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January 24th, 2008
Forbes Magazine, one publication that truly loves its lists, recently released another one guaranteed to get people talking. This one highlights the 10 most expensive cities for renters.
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January 23rd, 2008
Whose fault is it when a buyer pays far too much for a home? The buyer’s? Or the buyer’s real estate agent? Marty Ummel, who in 2005 purchased a house in San Diego for $1.2 million, is asking the legal system to decide.
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January 22nd, 2008
While the residential housing market remains mired in a deep slump in the United States, homes are selling quickly in Mexico.
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January 21st, 2008
In a continuing sign of how bad the residential real estate market has gotten, homebuilders are still reducing the number of new homes they are building.
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