Julia Corkey & Vickie Schoenfeld's (teameliterealtors) Blog

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Radon is an invisible, odorless, tasteless radioactive gas. According to the US EPA, radon is the second leading cause of lung cancer in the United States. Radon comes from the natural breakdown of uranium and enters homes, schools and other buildings from the soil. Elevated indoor levels are fo...

Updated facts on the Home Buyer Tax Credit: http://www.homesbyteamelite.com/downloads/buyer-tax-credit-info.pdf  

The FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) and Chairman Ben Bernanke left the Fed Funds rate unchanged today - no surprise here.  However, they made a very important announcement:  the Feds will stop buying U.S. Treasury securities by about the end of this October.  What does that mean???  A huge r...

Thanks to the Federal Government's newly implemented First-Time Home Buyer Tax Credit (FederalHousingTaxCredit.com) buyers will be given an $8,000 tax refund with the purchase of their first home. The tax credit creates an amazing opportunity for first-time buyers, thanks in part to the market's ...

Key Housing Provisions in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act  Watch this podcast on Today's market and the $8,000 goverment tax credit Video on Today's Real Estate Recovery Act

Statewide March Home Sales Jump 35.5 Percent from FebruaryIllinois Median Price Up to $149,995 SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - For the second-straight month, Illinois home sales increased over the month before and for the first time since June 2008 the statewide median home price also rose from the previous ...

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You hear the bad news everywhere you turn. It's on the television, the Internet, the radio and in print headlines. What you don't hear is the good news about the real estate market. Bad news sells newspapers and gets high television ratings; therefore, the media has no reason to report the upside...