Tips & Trends - February 20, 2010
Renting Vs. Selling Your Home
Occasionally a house just doesn't sell ...
Tips & Trends - January 20, 2010
Home Buying Trends in 2010
Smaller in Size, But Big on Amenities ...
Tips & Trends - January 7, 2010
7 tips for buying foreclosures
There are a lot of great deals on the market, but buyers beware: Purchasing a foreclosure is rife with pitfalls...
Tips & Trends - December 9, 2009
30-year-mortgage rates slide to their lowest level on record
The average interest rate for a 30-year mortgage dropped to a record low of 4.71 percent this week...
Tips & Trends - November 25, 2009
Adapt Your Home to Its Selling Season
There's a selling myth that you should wait till springtime to sell your home. While spring is the busiest season for real estate sales, people buy homes 365 days a year...
Tips & Trends - November 11, 2009
The Basics: Extended Home Buyer Tax Credit 2009/2010
Bringing the Dream of Homeownership Within Reach...
Tips & Trends - October 28, 2009
No decision yet on homebuyer credit - Obama official
President Obama's housing secretary tells a Senate committee that the administration wants to see
cost data before backing any extension of the credit...
Tips & Trends - October 14, 2009
More tax credits needed, says real estate industry
Agents, homebuilders, Cardin want federal help extended...
Tips & Trends - September 30, 2009
Seven Costly Mistakes Sellers Make
Mistake 1: Putting the home on the market before it's ready...
Tips & Trends - September 16, 2009
The Basics: 2009 First-Time Home Buyer Tax Credit
There’s still time to take advantage of the First-Time Home Buyer Tax Credit!
Tips & Trends - September 2, 2009
Act fast! Homebuyer tax credit ends soon
There's barely three months left before the $8,000 tax credit for first-time buyers ends -- and it can take that long to close on your new home...
Tips & Trends - August 19, 2009
The incredible shrinking home
The size of newly built homes fell in 2008 for the first time in almost 15 years. Is the McMansion
era on the wane?...
Tips & Trends - August 5, 2009
5 new tools for homebuyers
Real estate Web sites are constantly coming up with new ways for homebuyers to get information about the market. Here are 5 new sites that can make house hunting easier...
Tips & Trends - August 3, 2009
Ten Terms to Include in Your Lease or Rental Agreement
What should be included in every lease or rental agreement?...
Tips & Trends - July 22, 2009
5 steps to a quick home sale
In a hurry to sell your home? Here's how to make sure you snag the best price in shortest amount of time...
Tips & Trends - July 8, 2009
How to haggle with a contractor
Want your home pro to cut costs, not corners? You have to learn to negotiate the right way....
Tips & Trends - June 24, 2009
Remodelers build on spark of recovery
Drive around the neighborhoods of the greater Washington area and you may literally see more signs
of economic recovery...
Tips & Trends - June 10, 2009
'Jumbo' Loans, Down-to-Earth-Rates
Looking for a mortgage that exceeds $729,750?
Tips & Trends - June 1, 2009
Top Ten Tax Deductions for Landlords
Learn about the many tax deductions available to rental property owners
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Tips & Trends - May 22, 2009
Real Estate: City Living in the Sunurbs
New downtowns are springing up with luxury condos, trendy restaurants, and fashionable shops...
Tips & Trends - May 8, 2009
Five Maintenance Issues Owners Shouldn't Ignore
Consumer Reports magazine advises home owners not to put off important maintenance projects.
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Tips & Trends - March 23, 2009
Existing-Home Sales Rise In February
Existing-home sales increased in February, reversing losses in January..
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Tips & Trends - February 25, 2009
Home Prices Post Record Annual Decline
Home prices tumbled by the steepest annual rate on record in the fourth quarter.
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Tips & Trends - February 3, 2009
Homebuyer tax credit may not need to be repaid under stimulus package
Should you give the $7,500 homebuyer tax credit a second look?.
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Tips & Trends - December 10, 2008
Foreclosure Epidemic Infecting Rental Market
Tenants, Lenders Are Exposed to Various Scams.
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Tips & Trends - December 8, 2008
Keys Now, Sale Later
Justin Sprinzen took a chance on an abandoned Capitol Hill townhouse last spring, despite the faltering housing market.
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Tips & Trends - November 20, 2008
Great news on inflation (if you have money), but ominous sign for the economy
I sure am tired of writing about bad news. That's why I was happy to read this morning that the consumer price index (CPI) tumbled by a record 1% in October.
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Tips & Trends - October 24, 2008
To Avoid Sublet Headaches, Cover All Your Legal Bases
Think Like a Landlord: Don't Hand Over Keys Without Credit Check, Security Deposit and a Written Contract.
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Tips & Trends - September 8, 2008
The Luck of the Landlords
Supply of Available Rental Homes Is Rising, but So Are the Prices
The slumping housing market hit Teresa Walsh hard...
Tips & Trends - July 15, 2008
Fed poised to curb shady home-lending practices
Confronted by record foreclosures, the Federal Reserve is ready to give home buyers more protection from the types of shady lending practices that have contributed to the housing crisis.
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Tips & Trends - June 16, 2008
Real Estate Issues Raised on Capitol Hill
The Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM® ) and the CCIM Institute recently joined forces to raise awareness on Capitol Hill of key issues affecting the commercial real estate industry.
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Tips & Trends - May 22, 2008
Home Sales, Prices to Pick Up in Second Half of 2008, Says NAR Chief Economist
Home sales and prices throughout most of the country are poised for improvement in the second half of 2008...
Tips & Trends - May 9, 2008
The Housing Crisis Is Over
The dire headlines coming fast and furious in the financial and popular press suggest that the housing crisis is intensifying.
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Tips & Trends - April 24, 2008
Is the Game's Economy as bad as we think it is?
For the golf industry, subprime may not mean subpar.
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Tips & Trends - April 17, 2008
5 Hot Legal Issues
The legal issues getting the most buzz in real estate circles these day
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Tips & Trends - April 10, 2008
7 Dos and Don’ts for Legal 1031 Exchanges
Rochelle Stone and John Mangham of Starker Services Inc. in Los Gatos, Calif., share these tips on how to avoid common legal mistakes in 1031 exchanges...
Tips & Trends - April 3, 2008
10 Tax Changes for 2008
Plan now and you’ll be in a better position to know what you’ll owe Uncle Sam this time next year...
Tips & Trends - March 27, 2008
Fundamentals Holding in Commercial Real Estate
WASHINGTON, March 12, 2008 - Commercial real estate market fundamentals are fairly stable, although investment is waning following a record year in 2007, according to the latest COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE OUTLOOK of the National Association of Realtors®....
Tips & Trends - March 3, 2008
Ernst & Young's 2008 Real Estate Forecast
Each year for the last decade or more, professionals within Ernst & Young's Real Estate practice have gathered informally to review the trends and issues impacting real estate over the last twelve months and to discuss how new trends might affect the development, financing, ownership, operation and even re-use of real estate in your area...
Tips & Trends - January 21, 2008
Reverse Migration Patterns Favoring Buyers
Reverse migration patterns are stacking the deck in buyers' favor in some housing markets...


 

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