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Latest data show housing prices are rising nationwide
The latest sales numbers from the nation's Multiple Listing Services are in, and housing is looking good. As of May 1, only nine of the 100 core-based statistical areas (CBSAs) with more than 500 sales in the previous three months saw prices decline....
Tags: Real Estate Buyers, Tampa, Real Estate Sellers
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Mortgage underwriting rules eased for seniors with assets
WASHINGTON — Here's a heads-up for the growing ranks of seniors whose post-retirement monthly incomes aren't sufficient to qualify for a mortgage under today's tough underwriting standards: Thanks to a rule change by the largest players in the...Tags: Social Security, 401K, Personal Finance, Credit and Debt, Mortgages
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Honoring a lease cuts both ways
Question: My wife and I were leasing a house. We were about six months into the one-year lease when the owner told us he was placing the house on the market and that we would need to find another place to live. Given today's rental market, my wife and I...
Tags: Rentals, Condos and Houses
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House-hunting Chinese send some wealth to Seattle
The Seattle TimesSEATTLE Real-estate agent Joseph Ho climbed the gilded staircase of a Hunts Point, Wash., mansion listed for almost $5 million, shooting video on his Apple iPad tablet and narrating in Chinese. Buyers from China have inquired about the 5,540-square-...Tags: Gary Locke, Government, Property, Bill Gates, Real Estate Buyers
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US lumber futures fall most in 18 months as exports plunge
ReutersBy Michael Hirtzer CHICAGO, May 24 (Reuters) - U.S. lumber futures fell nearly 2 percent on Friday, capping their deepest streak of losses in 1-1/2 years as a resurgence in the domestic housing market was overshadowed by plunging wood exports from the U....Tags: Toll Brothers Inc
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Selling your home?
When preparing to put a house on the market, the don'ts can be as important as the do's to get the house ready for sale. According to local real estate agents and home stagers, mistakes at this preliminary stage can extend the time it takes to wrap up a...
Tags: Real Estate, Realty, Real Estate Sellers
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Low Appraisals on the Rise
A homebuyer may have to put several houses under contract before actually closing on one. Welcome to the new housing market, where contract price and appraised value do not always match. Low appraised values are causing many deals to falter, according...
Tags: Chicago Mortgages, St. Petersburg (Pinellas, Florida), Real Estate, Energy Saving, Real Estate Buyers
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Selling a house? Here's how to get from contract to closing
After "you're right," my next two favorite words to hear are "escrow closed." Ask anyone who's sold a house: The journey between offer accepted and escrow closed is akin to carrying live explosives across a mine field. All can blow up at any step. A...
Tags: Property, Real Estate Sellers
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EU risks "too big to cooperate" bank supervision
ReutersBRUSSELS/LONDON (Reuters) - The role of the European Banking Authority must be beefed up beyond current plans to ensure that regulation of Europe's banks does not fragment into two competing systems, one of the architects of the reforms told a public...Tags: Central Bank, European Debt Crisis, International Organizations, European Central Bank, Finance
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YouTube video can help market a home
Nicholas Kennedy was in a rush to sell his condo in Sherman Oaks, Calif. He and his wife have a 3-month-old girl, and the couple wanted to be close to their families in the Dallas area. They met with area real estate agent Ben Salem about quickly...Tags: LinkedIn Corp., Sotheby's Holdings Incorporated, Media Industry, Video Supplies and Services, Real Estate Buyers
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Apple I, handmade in 1976 and still working, could fetch $400,000
Apple’s newest iMac has at least 3,000 times more processing power than the company’s first computer model, but the older version could end up being 300 times as expensive. One of the six original Apple computers that still works will be...
Tags: Jennifer Lopez, Auction Service, Google+
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Greater Hartford House Sales, Prices Gain In April
After two months of year-over-year declines, prices paid for single-family houses in Greater Hartford rose modestly in April, a new report Thursday shows. The median sale price increased nearly three percent to $214,900 from $209,000 a year earlier,...
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