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2011
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Trying to sell a home in today's market requires courage, smarts and a fair amount of humble pie-eating. It's a buyers' market, which means sellers are expected to roll over and grovel appreciatively over each showing their agent landed. Sometimes, whether through ignorance or a last gasp of prid...
05/31/2011
On the morning of Nov. 24, 2007, Brad Stanley and his wife Anita watched as their home in Malibu, Calif., burned to the ground. They were not alone. More than 50 other homes were destroyed in the wildfire. With everything they owned now gone, the family had to start to process of documenting the...
05/27/2011
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Real estate agents have become frontline soldiers in a shadow crisis to the foreclosure mess: Pets are being abandoned by their owners in their empty houses. It isn't uncommon for an agent to open the door of a foreclosed property and find a starving dog or cat left behind when the family moved o...
05/26/2011
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Get ready for the best parts of summer living with an outdoor do-it-yourself patio that will be an enjoyable spot for outdoor barbecuing, al fresco dining or curling up with a summer read. With some time—perhaps the span of a long weekend—and a few basic tips, you can put together a patio to comp...
05/25/2011
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New single-family home sales rose unexpectedly in April to notch their second straight month of gains and prices increased, offering some hope for the stagnant housing market. The Commerce Department said sales increased 7.3 percent to a seasonally adjusted 323,000 unit annual rate, the highest l...
05/24/2011
The ailing housing market remains hampered by the backlog of distressed properties, which is growing larger as banks repossess more homes than they sell. Banks now hold more than 872,000 homes, nearly twice as many as in 2007, the New York Times reports, citing data from RealtyTrac. In regions li...
05/23/2011
Remember how Spring was always the home-buying season? Don't count on that happening this year and you can point the finger, at least in part, at the new lending hoops buyers must jump through. According to MortgageMatch.com, one out of three home buyers will fail to get a mortgage this spring. U...
05/20/2011
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More than half of U.S. adults surveyed think the housing market won't bounce back until 2014 or later, reports Inman News. But for some people, even the promise of a real estate recovery might not be enough to entice them to take the plunge and become homeowners: 40 percent of renters surveyed sa...
05/19/2011
One look at the well-trimmed landscaping and welcoming brick facade of this three-bedroom Houston home, and you may wonder why it's still on the market. But take a gander inside and ... whoa! Little green pod people everywhere! No, wait. It's just green cellophane -- yards and yards of the stuff ...
05/18/2011
Listing broker is Helen Oliveri, Call 847-967-0022 for more information. Lovely Richmond Colonial home with 4 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms. On Cul-de-sac. Home has many wonderful features such as a bonus sun room, large master bedroom with walk in closet and sitting area and spacious loft overlookin...
05/17/2011
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News, tips and tricks about the Chicago Area and National Real Estate Market, brought to you by The Helen Oliveri Team of Keller Williams Realty Partners.