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Online real estate agents get equality with traditional brokers
In a win for online discount real estate brokers, the Justice Department and the National Association of Realtors announced a settlement Tuesday that will let Internet brokers use the same for-sale home listings used by traditional bricks-and-mortar brokers.
The Justice Department says the proposed antitrust settlement will create more competition among traditional and discount brokers, while […]
US new home sales rose unexpectedly in April
Sales of new homes across the United States rose an unexpected 3.3 percent in April from the prior month, to a seasonally adjusted annual pace of 526,000 homes, a government report showed Tuesday. The spike in sales confounded most economists forecasts of a […]
US home prices fall at record pace
The gloom enveloping the US housing market intensified on Tuesday as home prices dropped at the fastest annual rate since records began 20 years ago.
The Standard & Poor’s/Case Shiller national house price index fell 14.1 per cent in the first quarter of this year, compared with the same period a year earlier, a decline that […]
Woman Loses Home Over $68 Dental Bill
Woman Loses Home Over $68 Dental Bill
Utah Woman ‘Dumbfounded’ After Learning Her Home Was Sold Without Her Knowledge
Can you imagine losing your home over a $68 dental bill? That’s what happened to one Utah woman.
Sonya Capri Ramos says her Salt Lake City home was sold out from under her in 1996 to pay a collections […]
U.S. Has Most Unsold Homes Since ‘85
U.S. Has Most Unsold Homes Since ‘85
Sales of Existing Homes and Median Home Prices Fall Again as Inventory Stays High
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sales of existing homes in the U.S. fell for the eighth time in the past nine months, with the backlog of unsold single-family homes rising to the highest level in more than two […]
Home Sellers Will Try Anything, but It’s Hard to Get a Look
Home Sellers Will Try Anything, but It’s Hard to Get a Look
Mark and Elaine Hendricks recently offered their 2000 Mustang convertible as a freebie to anyone who would buy their Woodbridge house, but even that failed to distinguish it from the roughly 700 other homes for sale in their Zip code.
“We wanted to try something […]
US Home Prices Lowest in 17 Years
(WASHINGTON) — U.S. home prices posted their sharpest first-quarter decline since the government began tracking the data 17 years ago.
The Washington-based Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight said Thursday that home prices fell 3.1 percent in the first quarter compared with last year. The index also fell 1.7 percent from the fourth quarter of 2007 […]
Finding Your First Apartment
THE dream: finding a one-bedroom, one-bath apartment in an elevator building with a doorman in Greenwich Village for $2,000 a month.
The reality: nearly impossible.
Spring is the season when newly minted college graduates flock to New York City to start their careers. They begin the search for their dream apartment, brokers say, with the same single-minded […]
Lenders Raise the Bar
IF you have a mortgage, consider yourself lucky.
That is the upshot of the most recent survey of mortgage lenders by the Federal Reserve Board, which found that banks’ lending standards were significantly tighter in April than they had been in January, when credit was already tight.
Some prospective borrowers who just a few months ago were […]
After 24 Open Houses …
ON a Wednesday evening nearly three weeks ago, Dawn and Barry Goldstein were surprisingly calm as they sat on their plush brown sofa chatting with a guest, while their son, Jordan, almost 3, fidgeted between them.
“At least the worst part is over,” said Mrs. Goldstein, referring to the sale of their apartment. During the six […]
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- Online real estate agents get equality with traditional brokers
- US new home sales rose unexpectedly in April
- US home prices fall at record pace
- Woman Loses Home Over $68 Dental Bill
- U.S. Has Most Unsold Homes Since ‘85
- Home Sellers Will Try Anything, but It’s Hard to Get a Look
- US Home Prices Lowest in 17 Years
- Finding Your First Apartment
- Lenders Raise the Bar
- Senate Leaders Agree on Housing Aid
- New Home Sales Fall to 13-Year Low
- McCain Warns Against Hasty Mortgage Bailout
- Swift Steps Help Avert Foreclosures in Baltimore
- Home Sales Rose, Prices Fell in February
- Democrats, Bush Square Off Over Housing Relief
- Housing crisis cools off growth
- The Affluent, Too, Couldn’t Resist Adjustable Rates
- Foreclosed Homes: A Local Blight
- Home Sweet Investment
- Lowball Home Purchase Offers on the Rise
- Housing Crunch Flattens More Companies
- Florida Leads Nation In Mortgage Fraud
- Stronger Rules for Mortgages Are Proposed
- Subprime Writedowns Could Hit $285 Billion: S&P
- Confessions of a Subprime Mortgage Lender
- Treasury To Release Analysis of Meltdown
- Home owners refuse to pay home equity loans, banks powerless to stop them
- Foreclosure crisis has ripple effect
- Jitters for First-Time Homebuyers
- Responding to a Less Heated Market
- What is a Condominium or Condo?
- Fed Chief Urges Breaks for Some Home Borrowers
- Freddie and Fannie Promise To Play Nice
- Home Appraisal Standards Stiffened
- Yes, the Market Has Its Bright Spots
- Bill Would Set Foreclosure Moratorium
- Winning That One in a Million
- Facing Default, Some Walk Out on New Homes
- Mortgage Lender Freddie Mac Reports $2.5 Billion Loss
- Republicans Block Consideration of Housing Relief Package in Senate
- New-Home Sales and Prices Continue to Drop
- Door Could Open To Class Actions
- Housing Woes Put Bush, Hill At Odds
- New Data Show Rising Inflation and Slumping Home Values
- Bargain hunters may toss a lifeline to housing
- Foreclosure Aid Rising Locally, as Is Dissent
- Home Resales and Prices Decline
- St. Lucie foreclosure tours put fresh spin on house-hunting; ‘It’s a buyer’s market’
- Neighbor vs. Neighbor
- Confronting a Wave of Foreclosures
- Once Exclusive Enclaves, Subject to Change
- Maintenance Fees: Up, Up, Up
- Rescues for Homeowners in Debt Weighed
- Dubious Fees Hit Borrowers in Foreclosures
- Buyers Pounce on Deals as Homes Go on the Block
- The Case for ‘Right Pricing’ By Home Builders
- A Home Loan Trap
- Tips For Selling Your Home
- Apartment Rental Guide
- For Sale By Owner Book Online Project Table of Contents
- Inside the Countrywide Lending Spree
- Drop Foreseen in Median Price of U.S. Homes
- As Woes Grow, Mortgage Ads Keep Up Pitch
- July New Home Sales Up 2.8 Percent
- Welcome to the For Sale By Owner Book Online Project
- How Missed Signs Contributed to a Mortgage Meltdown
- After the Pain of Foreclosure, a Big Tax Bill
- House prices fall nationwide
- One City’s Home Sellers Do Better on Their Own
- Feds are investigating homebuilder Beazer
- Behind Foreclosures, Ruined Credit and Hopes
- Ripples From the Subprime Storm
- The Danger in the Fine Print
- SOUTH FLORIDA: More homes for sale, but fewer buyers, too
- Foreclosures Force Suburbs to Fight Blight
- Buying With Help From Mom and Dad
- Mortgage Trouble Clouds Homeownership Dream
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- New York City Department of City Planning Community District Profiles
- The Independent Guide to New York City Public Schools
- New York Housing Resources
- Search New York City Property Records Free
- The Real Riddle of Changing Weather: How Safe Is My Home?
- Real Estate Glossary - Apartments
- Reducing the Risk of Default
- Holding the Line on New Development
- More Homeowners Are Unable to Make Payments
- To Have, Hold and Cherish, Until Bedtime…
- Home foreclosures in South Florida on the rise…
- Top Ten Tips Every Tenant Needs to Know
- Flip That House
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- Top Ten Inexpensive Tips for a Fast and Profitable Apartment Sale
- Top Ten Real Estate How-To’s
- Top Ten Ways to Avoid Signing an Exclusive Agreement with a Real Estate Agent
- Government takes National Association of Realtors to court over their attempts to stop innovations in the real estate industry…
- Letter to the editor (new york times) re: The Last Stand of the 6-Percenters?
- The Last Stand of the 6-Percenters?