real estate agents
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South Baltimore realtor develops mobile app that can find homes with off-street parking. - The multiple list service used by real estate agents in the mid-Atlantic is working on a deal to partner with Zillow, allowing agents to continue to feed ads directly to the online database after the current syndication deal expires in April.
- The Metropolitan Regional Information Systems Inc. in November launched a new "coming soon" feature designed to make those previews available across its system.
- Thinking of selling your home? Your home¿s initial appeal online determines its ability to compete with thousands of other offerings. Enter the home stager. Howard County real estate agents and buyers have been calling on their services for years. Think of a window dresser or set designer, and you¿re on the right track.
- A stylish cedar shake and stacked-stone, transitional-style home, priced at $625,000, is found at 6177 Wooded Run Drive in the Columbia neighborhood of Owen Brown Woods.
- More millennials are creating their own jobs, either as a response to a continually crummy economy in which they can't find work, or because they would rather be their own bosses and run their own businesses.
- Whether it's Ocean City or Rehoboth Beach, make sure to cover all of your bases
- Real estate agents have long boasted of the lengths they'll go to market properties. Now, for some, the sky's the limit.
- Charles Village Civic Association, in an effort to find good businesses to fill the many vacant storefronts in the area, is talking to a market research company called Spot Mojo, which specializes in that sort of thing and would help them identify potential businesses.
- The 2013 State of Housing in Black America report found that African-American homeownership dropped from 48 percent in 2007 to 43 percent today and foreclosure rates were higher among African Americans and Latinos. NAREB President Donnell Spivey said he is concerned that the recession has made many people in the African American community wary of homeownership, traditionally a safe investment and a route to the middle class.
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- A new Baltimore homeowner shares her experience of buying in the city for the first time.
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- Herbert A. Davis, a well-known Baltimore real estate broker and decorated World War II veteran, died Monday of progressive supra-nuclear palsy at Keswick Multi-Care Center. He was 87.
- Because of the increasing role of the web in home buying and selling, the variety of ways for buyers and sellers to enter the market have never been greater.
- Frank Simms Dudley Jr., an Eastern Shore real estate broker and property appraiser, died of complications after surgery March 3 at the University of Maryland Medical Center. The former Baltimore resident was 93.
- As director of the newly-formed Help 4 Homeowners Community Foundation, Arbutus native Joe Liggett plans to offer credit counseling, mortgage modification assistance, real estate consulting and financial educational tutoring at no charge to residents of Arbutus, Catonsville, Lansdowne and Elkridge.
- Average sale prices stayed steady or rose in more than half the Baltimore region during the first six months of the year, according to a Baltimore Sun analysis. It's the newest evidence that the housing bust is over.
- A Columbia woman who participates in the government-funded Housing Choice Voucher Program has filed a discrimination complaint against a major real estate company after she was denied the opportunity to rent a Columbia town house last year.
- Bidding wars for homes are back in the Baltimore region, but unlike the last time, sellers aren't making a killing.
- One set of zoning changes now being considered in Baltimore County would move the boundaries of Towson's business district to the south, north and east.
- Recipients include young professionals in $300,000-plus homes
- Landowners, Realtors seek more disclosure, protections
- Eleven tips from task force on college students with neighborhood digs
