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2013
Study: Housing Recovery Is Stable, Strong, and Sustainable Despite a slowing of price increases and improved inventory, the housing recovery remains “sustainable“ for the foreseeable future. So says The Clear Capital’s most recent Home Data Index. According to the company, all its updated fo...
10/31/2013
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Helpful Things All Homebuyers Should Know For most Americans, buying a house is the single biggest purchase we will ever make. While most people like to believe they know something about real estate or their local real estate market, very few actually do. With that being said, there are a few...
10/28/2013
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Tips For Successfully Working With Investors Engaging real estate investors in ongoing business relationships can help you create a steady stream of income without incurring the marketing costs typically associated with the customer acquisition. Why? Because successful investors tend to buy and...
10/25/2013
How to Write an Effective Property Listing Ad The key to a property listing ad is to tell the homebuyers enough to get them interested but not give them all the information. The objective is to leave the buyers interested to the point they have to get more information about the property or, ev...
10/24/2013
With Cape Coral and Fort Myers for sale by owner (FSBO) transactions becoming more and more popular with sellers, we see a lot of buyers asking whether or not they really need representation when purchasing a home. The short answer is, it depends. If you choose not to enlist the help of a buyer’s...
10/23/2013
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Private Company Offers Historical Home Data The company Housefax.com has launched what it says is the first national property data service that delivers comprehensive reports to consumers that show home histories of building permits, mortgage information, fire, flood, sink hole and other import...
10/20/2013
The biggest business challenge facing real estate brokers today is attracting younger agents, according to a survey by the real estate marketing company Imprev. Imprev noted the average age of a sales associate is 57, the average American worker is 41, and the typical age of a first-time buyer ...
10/17/2013
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Why is Title Insurance Important to Have? For someone who does not buy and sell property on a regular basis, title insurance can seem unnecessary. After all, what’s the worst that can happen, right? The worst thing that could happen is you are responsible to pay for a property that you won’t o...
10/14/2013
Tech Brokerage Seeks End-Run Around Traditional Agents The online brokerage Redfin has launched a service called “Price Whisperer” that lets potential home sellers hear from active buyers before they even put their homes on the market. The goal is to help the seller set the price of their hous...
10/09/2013
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Jumbo Mortgage Loans Are Back on the Table It’s a good time to buy an expensive home. Jumbo mortgage loans, which sizzled during the housing market’s run-up and then fizzled spectacularly, are back with more flexible products from more lenders and interest rates that are inching ever closer to...
10/07/2013
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