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Housing affordability puts more seasonal spring in home buyers’ step

As interest rates hover around record low levels and home prices bounce along the bottom, incomes are also cooperating to make housing more affordable than ever. Of course, all those favorable affordability conditions don’t amount to a hill of beans [...]

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Video-on-demand due as next frontier for Realtor.com’s listings

Remote controlled access to Realtor.com's listings is the next big thing on the menu for digital access to homes for sale. Later this year, the Realtor.com Channel will

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What your listing real estate agent doesn’t tell you

JIM LOWENSTERN - Selling a home is a major undertaking for anyone and isn't to be approached lightly. You want to do everything right to nail the sale, but

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Infographic: The White House listing

The White House for sale? Not really. But if the historic landmark, 55,000-square-foot mansion home of the First Family was put on the market it would fetch about $110 million

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Zillow: ‘It’s time to start shopping’

In the latest report pointing to a housing recovery, Zillow says a 0.5 percent month-to-month rise in it's Home Value Index (ZHVI) marks the largest monthly increase since

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Infographic: Real estate agents and technology use

The real estate industry, once a technological laggard at the thought of providing easy public access to listings, is now, by some accounts, well ahead of the game,

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Infographic: How to sell your home

It's time to move. You can afford to move up or over. But you aren't quite sure how to proceed. Decisions, decisions. First, you must decide if you are going

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Infographic: 2012 shaping up as good time to buy

It's buying time again. A host of factors point to 2012 as a good time to buy a home. Interest rates are low The average interest rate on 30-year conforming fixed

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Home sellers lower prices to compete, bidding wars ensue, recovery heats up

We recently gave Chinese astrology some mystical credit for the Year of the Dragon's positive impact on the 2012 real estate market. Sellers, however, don't really need to read

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Bandits jumping on the timeshare bandwagon as industry gains speed

Timeshares' tiny $5 billion slice of the real estate pie is poised to grow with more sales and timeshare rats are scurrying out of the woodwork to take

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NAR: ‘Recovery is happening,’ March sales, prices rise

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS - Existing-home sales dipped in March, but continued to outpace last year's levels. At the same time, inventory tightened and home prices showed further

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California median home price posts first year-to-year increase in 16 months

CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS – California home sales declined in March from February's pace, while the median home price snapped a 16-month annual price decline and posted

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Infographic: Why some homes sell faster

Nationwide, more indicators point to a market on the verge of recovery, but deals aren't done until escrow closes. Home inspection finds, underwriting fails and early onset buyer's remorse

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Infographic: MLSListings launches MLS Source mobile app for SF Bay Area buyers, sellers, real estate professionals

MLSLISTINGS.COM – Just in time for the spring home buying season, a new mobile real estate app is available for northern California home buyers and sellers – but

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More renters move up to home ownership, still more returning to the nest

In another sign of the housing recovery times, the trend of renters moving out to own homes is picking up speed at a pace not seen in 18

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Investors: Let’s get this party started

If you think investors are charging the housing recovery, you ain't seen nothing yet. Investors, hand picking individual properties, working in groups, buying in bulk and smacking down all-cash

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FHFA rule restricts mortgages for properties with private transfer fees

FEDERAL HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY – The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has sent a final rule to the Federal Register on private transfer fees. The final rule limits Fannie

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Vacation homes reemerge as hot investment properties

Join a real estate investment group and pool your money. Tap retirement money. Get a second job. Get a third job. Just do what it takes. If you've ever

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Investors fueling housing recovery, first-time buyers back off

More cash rich investors, with a growing penchant for short sales, are energizing the housing market. All-cash sales rose to 33 percent of transactions in February from 31 percent

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Infographic: Mobile apps essential for real estate professionals, housing consumers

Email, a web site, a blog, and social networking accounts aren't enough for individual real estate professionals to attract the most tech-savvy buyers, sellers and renters. Consider adding an

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