Every home seller — or at least most of them — asks the question: What do real estate agents do to earn that standard 6 percent commission every time one of their house listings sells? According to a recent story in the New York Times, the answer to that question increasingly is: A lot.
The nation’s Sun Belt continues to be the fastest-growing region of the United States. Texas, especially, saw big population gains in both 2006 and 2007.
Here’s a chilling scam: Not only are con artists stealing people’s identities, they’re stealing their homes, too.
Finding the right roommate is no easy task. You know this if you’ve ever had to suffer through a roomie who leaves the sink cluttered with dirty dishes or likes blaring rock music at 2 in the morning.
The National Association of Realtors released their latest housing statistics earlier this week. And for the first time in a long time, the number of home sales actually rose.
It had to happen eventually: U.S. residents can no longer fit their cars into their garages.
A report released last week by The Brookings Institution, a think tank, said that the housing slowdown has slowed the formerly fast growth of cities in places like Florida and the Mountain West region. Previously, the hot housing market, which has, of course, cooled considerably, helped fuel large population growth in these parts of the country.
Now that spring is here, despite the snow on my Midwest front lawn, we’ll see how deep the residential real estate market’s slump is.
An interesting story on BusinessWeek, written by Prashant Gopel, says that as it’s getting harder to sell homes, some agents are charging more to guarantee better results.
The court sided with the Massachusetts town of Norwell’s zoning board when it denied a permit to a developer who wanted to tear down an existing house and replace it with one more than twice as large.
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Written by Dan Rafter [email] for b5media.
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