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Real Estate News – October 2011

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In this Issue:* Aggressive Home Selling Strategies Buying a New House? A Checklist of Items You’ll Need Transitioning Your Home to Autumn (Your comments are welcome at the bottom of our newsletter) Aggressive Home Selling Strategies Selling a house in an extremely competitive market is possible, especially if a seller is prepared to take action […]

Home Prices Post Slight Gain for July

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Home prices rose 0.8 percent during the month of July, marking the fourth consecutive month of increase, according to CoreLogic’s July home price index, released recently. Despite the monthly increase, prices declined 5.2 percent year-over-year. The decline is smaller when considering only non-distressed sales – 0.6 percent year-over-year. “While July’s numbers remained relatively positive, particularly […]

Real Estate News – September 2011

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In this Issue:* How To Get Your Insurer to Pay Your Disaster Claim Buying a New House? What You Have To Do First Home Affordability Remains High (Your comments are welcome at the bottom of our newsletter) How To Get Your Insurer to Pay Your Disaster Claim Seems that more and more states are being […]

Buying is Cheaper Than Renting in Most U.S. Cities

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Home prices have taken such a beating and demand for rental units has increased so much that it’s now cheaper to buy a two-bedroom home than to rent one in most major U.S. cities. According to real estate web site Trulia, buying was cheaper than renting in 74% of the country’s 50 largest cities in […]

Home Price Bargains For The Summer

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Home prices are already one third off their highs, but this summer could bring the real discounts. Buyers are still cautious, and anxious sellers will have to price aggressively to get them off the fence. Several factors appear to be leading to blow-out prices: Accelerating price drops: Home prices have already reached their lowest level […]

Builders Break Ground on More New Homes

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Builders broke ground on more new homes last month, giving the weak U.S. housing market a slight boost at the start of the spring buying season. Home construction rose 7.2 percent in March from February to a seasonally adjusted 549,000 units. Building permits, an indicator of future construction, rose 11.2 percent after hitting a five-decade […]

Distressed Sales Drag Down Home Prices

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An analysis of home prices through the end of February by CoreLogic shows a year-over-year decline of 6.7 percent when distressed properties – REO and pre-foreclosure short sales – are included in the numbers. Take out the distressed factor, and the company says home prices are “showing signs of stability,” down just 0.1 percent from […]