Lower prices and potential housing market deals alone shouldn't be enough to commit you to buying a home. Get to know your home-buying self first. FULL STORY->
HOA Newsletter Baker's Dozen Unless your homeowner association transacts all its business town meeting style, a regular newsletter is essential to keep the owners informed. There are tricks of the trade to increase its effectiveness and readability. Here's a "baker's dozen." FULL STORY->
Climate Change, Home Location Intertwined There may be no safe haven to consider as a location for your home when it comes to global warming. The first extensive government-sponsored North American focus on climate change paints a dire, almost doomsday scenario. FULL STORY->
New Homes: Housing in the Boondocks Get No Respect According to a recent article in the Los Angeles Times, gas prices are only serving to sucker-punch homebuilders when they're already on the ropes. How? The longer the commute, the less desirable the property, which makes outlying areas -- where many builders have purchased land -- become even less attractive. FULL STORY->
Interest Rate Update Today's Interest Rates from Realty Times are based on a 30 year amortization rate, with good credit and no origination fees. In a classic "flight to quality," investors are selling stocks and putting money into bonds, causing mortgage rates to fall. FULL STORY->
Realty Viewpoint: New Housing Report: Rocky Road Or Reboom? The annual State of the Nation's Housing 2008 has just been released by the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University. Abandoning the upbeat tone of last year's report, the market analysis bluntly says that the economy can go one of two ways -- a severe recession that will take housing with it, or a mild recession which will allow housing to strongly rebound. FULL STORY->
June Cybertips Need to know if that all important email was received? Now you can see -- at the click of a button. This trick and more in this month's cybertips from Jack Peckham. FULL STORY->
Market Conditions The Joint Center for Housing Studies has reported that America's rental market may see some significant changes as the mortgage crisis continues. FULL STORY->
Timely Tips to Help Canadian Homesellers The new Home Staging for Dummies, co-written by Canadian home staging expert Christine Rae, comes at an opportune time as the Canadian real estate market slows to traditional sales levels. FULL STORY->
Washington Report: Congressional VIP Loan Treatment Tongues are wagging overtime on Capitol Hill over last week's bombshell revelations that top congressional leaders received preferential mortgage rates and fees from Countrywide Financial - the ailing giant home loan company that will soon be acquired by Bank of America. FULL STORY->
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